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Book by Burt Shevelove and Larry Gelbart Introduction by Larry Gelbart "This brazenly retro Broadway musical, inspired by Plautus, is as timeless as comedy itself." -Vincent Canby, The New York Times "The most urbane and literate musical comedy text ever conceived." -John Simon, New York magazine.
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The complete book and lyrics with set and costume designs, production photos, essays, cast lists and credits, awards for major productions, selected discographies, and much more! Includes the shows A Little Night Music, Sweeney Todd, Sunday in the Park with George and A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum. A richly illustrated Sondheim treasury!.
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"If you are one of that benighted handful of people who isn't wise to Charles Osgood's incisive and humorous look at the foibles of your fellow men, here is your chance to catch up. Try not to foul up again!"
--Walter Cronkite

Charles Osgood, one of America's favorite news personalities, offers a hilarious compendium of anecdotes from the last seventy years of presidential campaigns.

With anecdotes from Harry Truman to JFK to George W. Bush, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the White House captures the wit and humor of the campaign trail. Culled from speeches, interviews, press conferences, as well as articles written by and about the candidates--no source is left untapped.

From Bob Dole telling reporters after a loss in the primary that "I slept like a baby--every two hours I woke up and cried," and Barry Goldwater's comment that his talkative opponent Hubert Humphreys "has been clocked at 275 words a minute with gusts up to 340," to Adlai Stevenson declaring that "If I talk over the people's head, Ike must be talking under their feet," this is the go-to source for campaign humor.

Just when America most needs a good laugh, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the White House makes the seemingly endless race to the presidency a lot more fun..
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From comical misunderstandings and hilarious mishaps to the sheer terror of a near-death experience, these are the true-life global adventures and keen observations of one American traveler.

During his forty years of international travel, Edward Gray journeyed through the old Communist regimes of the USSR, Western Europe, the Americas, and the Far East. He lived through coup attempts in Portugal, Peru, and France; skyjacking incidents in the Middle East and the United States; and his family’s extended stay at the JFK Airport in the blizzard of 1993.

At once a personal memoir, an intriguing international travelogue, and a fascinating blend of history and sociology, Call a Bomb a Rifle includes Gray’s most entertaining, lively, and insightful anecdotes about life among strangers. Whether he’s witnessing the purchase of a bushel of cherries in Istanbul, skiing in the Italian Alps, or watching the pilot and his fellow passengers perish in a major airplane crash, Gray is forever changed by his worldly excursions.

This remarkable memoir chronicles a lifetime of exploration into the various cultures, languages, and idiosyncrasies that divide us as a species—and the underlying humanity that unites us..
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"A FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON MY WAY TO OLD AGE-Life Changes After 50" is a highly entertaining description of dealing with issues one must face when aging. Beginning with denial. As one endorser said, "Most of us don't think about being over the hill until we're rolling briskly down the other side. Stan's book combines wit, wisdom, and a wacky look at the later years. After reading it, I am better prepared to make my later years golden years.".
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1989: The adventure begins during the summer after his freshman year of college when Andy Stevenson accompanies his grandmother on a six-day trip to California to celebrate her brother’s fiftieth wedding anniversary. Once there, however, life becomes a series of comical faux pas with relatives who can’t remember his name, women who want to charge him $10 to put suntan lotion on their bodies and where a handsome young man kisses him at the anniversary party. It’s that kiss that starts a chain reaction in Andy and forces him to reevaluate what he thinks he knows, what society wants him to believe and why so many people in California are talking about his assets!.
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Excerpts from “The Long Slog” by Stump Connolly “I’ve been running for 15 months now, which means there are babies who have been born and are now walking and talking since I started running for president.” – Barack Obama Do The Math! “The scenarios are different for Republican and Democratic presidential candidates, but the rush of states to advance their 2008 primaries to a Super Tuesday showdown on February 5 makes it more likely, not less, that no frontrunner can emerge with enough delegates to assure a first ballot victory at the party conventions.” –– April 13, 2007 The Dog Days of Politics “The CNN/YouTube Democratic debate Monday20was up against some stiff competition – Wife Swap, Age of Love and Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader” – but it managed to hold it’s own. Questions about global warming from a melting snowman, two Tennessee bumpkins wondering whether Al Gore’s media attention hurt the candidates’ feelings, and a singing question about taxes spiced up the evening –– and gave all the candidates a chance to show they have a sense of humor.” –– July 27, 2007 My Restless Legs Are Killing Us “Not that I don’t appreciate constant reminders that my bladder is leaking, my face is wrinkling, my prostate is growing, and my cholesterol is too high (or too low). But doctors will tell you they too are tired of patients coming into their office asking, as the TV ads instruct them, whether they might have less weary bones if they took this or that drug . . . The pharmaceutical lobby would have you believe this “direct to consumer” advertising is raising public awareness of health issues. They conveniently want you to forget that, prior to 1997, prescription drug advertising was banned on TV, just as it is in all other countries of the world except New Zealand.” –– August 24, 2007 Report from New Hampshire “Its midnight at The Wayfarer, the witching hour and the ghost of politics past is in the air. Hunter Thompson once described this resort hotel as ‘the Valley Forge of presidential campaigns,” but it seems to now to have fallen on hard times. Space heaters are strategically placed around the hallways to bolster a central heating system run amok. A sign on the public washroom directs guests down the hall because this one is out of order. More alarming, the rapid-fire spin and bluster I expected to find in the bar as the ABC/Facebook doubleheader debate . . . is drowned out by the whoops and pings of a video golf game. The famous Wayfarer Lounge has become a sports bar.” –– January 11, 2008 On Super Tuesday “My calculator hasn’t had this kind of workout since my first SAT in high school. Given the choices, I’d say the best guess on who won the Super Tuesday Democratic primaries is still none of the above. The Republicans, who cling to the antiquated notion that, when you win a state, you win it all, seem to have decided that John McCain deserves their nomination . . . But the Democrats like a messy democracy. Now they’ve got one. Fourteen million Democrats went to the polls Tuesday and the di fference in vote totals between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton was 53,000 votes.” –– February 8, 2008 A Solution to Florida and Michigan “The solution to Florida and Michigan is to let both delegations attend the Democratic convention in Denver this August, but make them all wear dunce caps. Give them T-shirts that say “I’m The Biggest Jackass In The Joint” and hang “Kick Me!” signs on their rumps.” –– March 14, 2008 Revenge of The Blob “There are only two ways through Pennsylvania. One is on a beeline across the state on the Pennsylvania Turnpike. The other follows the presidential primary trail from Philadelphia to Pittsburgh with intermediate stops in towns like Altoona, Lackawanna,.
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Jane Kean's frank and funny memoirs of a show business life are a loving first-hand account of what it was like growing up among the Who's Who of classic Hollywood and Broadway. She tells all - and tells it like it was..
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