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The Frogs

World Premiere (1974)

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Production Info

Opening May 20, 1974
Closing: May 25, 1974
Length of Run: 8 perf.
Run Type: Limited

Location Info

Location: New Haven, CT

Credits Highlights

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... Staging	Burt Shevelove
... Choreographer	Carmen de Lavallade

Cast

... Dionysos	Larry Blyden
... Xanthias	Michael Vale (i)
... Herakles	Dan Desmond
... Charon	Charles Levin
... Hierophantes	Ron Recasner
... Aeakos	Alvin Epstein
... A Handmaiden	Carmen de Lavallade
... An Inkeeper's Wife	Carmen de Lavallade
... An Innkeeper	Stephen R. Lawson
... Pluto	Jeremy Dempsey

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Musical Numbers

Main Program

Prologos:
- Invocation to the Gods and Instructions to the Audience .... Dionysos and Xanthias
Parodos:
- The Frogs .... Chorus
Hymnos:
- Dionysos .... Dionysians
Parabasis:
- It's Only a Play .... Hierophantes and Dionysians
Paean:
- Evoe for the Dead .... Dionysos and Dionysians
Exodos:
- The Sound of Poets .... Dionysians

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Trivia & History

The exact script performed in this production seems to have never been performed again. Sondheim's setting of Shakespeare's "Fear No More" from Cymbeline was not in this production. (It was probably not yet written.)

The dialogue was often different from that in the script published in 1975 by The Dramatic Publishing Company (and republished in 1985 by Dodd, Mead & Company, in a book that also contained the script for A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum). That first published script seems to document the revised version first performed in the 1975 Great Lakes Shakespeare Festival production.