Ryan L Ball
John Byner
Bryn Dowling
Rebecca Eichenberger
Meg Gillentine
Pia C Glenn
Tyler Hanes
Francesca Harper
Rod Harrelson
Jessica Howard
Naomi Kakuk
Luke Longacre
Michael Siberry
Kathy Voytko
Steve Wilson
Jay Brian Winnick
Chris Kattan

Creative team

Director: Susan Stroman
Choreographer: Susan Stroman

Recordings

3 recordings of The Frogs exist, but none were released while this run was on. See The Frogs for all of them.

Around this production

The Frogs is a musical "freely adapted" by Stephen Sondheim and Burt Shevelove from The Frogs, an Ancient Greek comedy by Aristophanes. In the musical, Dionysos, despairing of the quality of living dramatists, travels to Hades to bring George Bernard Shaw back from the dead. William Shakespeare competes with Shaw for the title of best playwright, which he wins. Dionysos brings Shakespeare back to the world of the living in the hope that art can save civilization. The musical was originally performed in Yale University's gymnasium's swimming pool in 1974. The show was produced on Broadway in 2004 with the book revised by Nathan Lane and the score expanded by Sondheim. This version was revived…

Xanthias complains about traveling and sings a fifth leap from A to E each time to “the grippe”/“my hip”/“my lip”/“the pip,” provoking Dionysus to...

Sondheim In Our Time and His W Anthony Sheppard Editor Oxford University Press U, p. 412

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