A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Future... by Michael J. Fox

Once they return to the house of Senex, Hero and the girl get to know each other. Being an excellent fabricator of lies, Pseudolus claims Crete has been ravaged by a plague, and since he has already had the plague, he would happily look after the girl in Senex's house until the soldier comes to claim her. When Hero's dream woman is not among the girls who are presented, Lycus tells them that she is a virgin who recently arrived from Crete and he has sold her to a famous Roman soldier. Gymnasia and Pseudolus communicate in sign language and he immediately falls for her. Lycus presents several of his courtesans for their inspection: Tintinabula (Latin for 'bell'), a bell-wearing beauty, dances to middle eastern music Vibrata (Latin for 'vibrant'), an energetic, lively dark-skinned lovely who is dressed in a leopard skin bikini, dances to jazz Geminae (Latin for 'twins') are a matched pair that Lycus will not separate Panacea (Latin for 'cure all') dances seductively and Gymnasia (Latin for 'nude,' which she may have been in the original musical, but in the film she is portrayed as speechless) is a mute from the Island of Silent Women. Pseudolus and Hero visit the house of Lycus to purchase Hero's beloved. Hero agrees if Pseudolus can get the girl for him, he will free him. Pseudolus seizes the opportunity to bargin for his freedom.

One day when Senex and Domina leave for a trip, Hero tells Pseudolus that he's in love with a girl in the house next door. The action, Pseudolus tells the audience, takes place in Rome around three adjacent houses: the house of Erronius (Latin for 'wrong'), an old man who has been searching for his children who were stolen by pirates while they were infants the house of Marcus Lycus, a buyer and seller of beautiful women, and the house of Senex (Latin for 'old man' or 'senile'), a Roman senator, his wife, Domina (Latin for 'mistress'), who is loathed by her husband, their son, Hero, and his slave, Pseudolus, who is attempting to raise enough money to buy his freedom. Ultimately, Pseudolus promises a happy ending. The lyrics tell the audience they will see some familiar things, others peculiar, some appealing, others appalling, some gaudy, and definitely others that are bawdy, in other words, something for everyone. during the early years of the Roman Empire, the film opens with one of the musicals most famous songs, 'Comedy Tonight,' performed by Pseudolus. Set in Rome during the first century A.D.

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Future... by Michael J. Fox