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Frogs (1974)

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Person Credit Notes
Stephen Sondheim Lyricist
Charles Levin Actor Charon
Larry Blyden Actor Dionysus
Burt Shevelove Director
Burt Shevelove Librettist
Jeremy Geidt Actor Shakespeare
Anthony Holland Actor Shaw
Jerome Dempsey Actor Pluto
Alvin Epstein Actor Aeakos
Michael Vale Actor Xanthias
Dan Desmond Actor Herakles
Michael Yeargan Set Designer
Jeanne Button Costume Designer
Carol M. Waaser Lighting Designer
Don Jennings Music Director / Musical Director
Carmen de Lavallade Actor Handmaiden / Innkeeper's Wife
Stephen R. Lawson Actor Innkeeper
Ron Recasner Actor Hierophant
Sigourney Weaver Actor Chorus Member
Meryl Streep Actor Chorus Member
Venue Country Dates APGRD Notes Festival
Yale University (New Haven, Connecticut, United States) United States – 8 performances in the swimming pool
unknown venue (Lakewood, State of Ohio, United States) United States 1975 Great Lakes Shakespeare Festival
Title Year Format Content
A Funny Thing Happened On the Way from Brooklyn: Roman Comedy on Broadway and Film Print-out journal article
All playwrights are frustrated critics Photocopy review
Aristophanes makes a splash Photocopy review
E-mail from Jeremy Antrich to APGRD Print-out email correspondence
Frogs takes no great leaps Photocopy review
Musical Frogs splash in Yale pool Photocopy newspaper article
Photograph of Larry Blyden as Dionysus fighting off the frogs Print-out image
The Frogs Print-out website
The Frogs/Evening Primrose - recordings on CD CD recording
When The Frogs made a splash at Yale Print-out article
Title Contributors Year Format Pagination
Aristophanes in Performance, 421 BC-AD 2007: Peace, Birds and Frogs Vasiliki Giannopoulou, Charalampos Orfanos, Matthew Steggle, Rosie Wyles, Phiroze Vasunia, Angeliki Varakis, Francesca Schironi, Martina Treu, Sean O'Brien, Bernd Seidensticker, Ewen Bowie, Gonda A. H. Van Steen, Malika Bastin-Hammou AKA Hammou, Betine van Zyl Smit, Amanda Wrigley, Michael Silk, Mary-Kay Gamel, Edith Hall Book
Living Greek Theatre: A Handbook of Classical Performance and Modern Production J. Michael Walton Book