Productions1 on Broadway
| 2004 | Vivian Beaumont Theater Original. July 22, 2004 · Susan Stroman | 92 performances |
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Licensing 1 entry
| US | Music Theatre International The Frogs matched on title alone — a lead, not a confirmed licensor |
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In the literature18 passages
His latest venture finds Nathan Lane wearing multiple hats, as both star and adaptor of Burt Shevelove’s original book of The Frogs, reuniting him with Producers director Susan Stroman and Forum composer Stephen Sondheim. book:broadway-musicals-the-101-greatest-shows-of-all-time-bloom-ken-1949-vlastnik-fra#p151
A paperback edition of the script was published in Britain by Frank Music Co. in 1963, and in 1991 Applause Theatre Book Publishers issued both hardback and paperback editions. Both the 1983 and 1991 publications include the lyrics for a number of unused songs. book:the-complete-book-of-1990s-broadway-musicals-dan-dietz-paxton-mcnallie-2016-rowm#p243
Musical Numbers Act One: “Invocation and Instructions to the Audience” (The Frogs, 1974) (Bronson Pinchot) book:the-complete-book-of-1990s-broadway-musicals-dan-dietz-paxton-mcnallie-2016-rowm#p393
When Burt Shevelove directed The Frogs in 1974, he often used Charon’s rowboat in the Yale Pool to coordinate the action using a megaphone. The gymnasium was not well suited for theatrical production. book:the-stephen-sondheim-encyclopedia-rick-pender-rowman-littlefield-publishing-lanh#p260
"The show’s best-known number, Shakespeare’s “Fear No More (the Heat o’ the Sun),” was not part of Shevelove’s Yale production. It was composed a year later (1975) in response to a request from the Great Lakes Theater Festival in Cleveland, giving The Frogs its second staging—this time without a pool." book:the-stephen-sondheim-encyclopedia-rick-pender-rowman-littlefield-publishing-lanh#p265
Enamored of The Frogs, Lane decided to personally expand it to a larger work. book:the-stephen-sondheim-encyclopedia-rick-pender-rowman-littlefield-publishing-lanh#p388
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