"Frogs!
We're the frogs!
The adorable frogs!
Not your hotty-toity intellectuals,
Not your hippy -dippy homosexuals,
Just your easy-going, simple,
Warm-hearted, cold blooded
Frogs
Of the pond
And the fronds we never go beyond.
When you rearrange a single frond,
We respond with a --
Brek-kek-kek-kek!"

"Members of the chorus sat at the side of the Yale swimming pool, a cast of undrgarduate swimmers played the frogs in green mesh and jock straps, and the star, the late Larry Blyden, was is in a rowboat surronded by frogs as he was about to make his descent into Hades"

-Christopher Durang

In 1974 Stephen Sondheim collaborated with Bert Shelshove(A Funny Thing Happned On The Way To The Forum) on a musical adaptation of Aristiophones' comedy The Frogs. In the original version the contest was between Aeschylus and Euripides, now it's between Shaw and Shakespeare. It was performed in the swimming pool at Yale as part of the Yale Repertory Theatre's season. The cast included the unknown (at that time) Meryl Streep ,Sigourney Weaver, Christopher Durang and Larry Blyden. It opened May 20, 1974 and Ran for 8 performances:Music and Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, Book by Aristophanes and Burt Shevelove,Produced by the Yale Repertory Theatre ,Staged by Burt Shevelove, Choreographed by Carmen de Lavallade ,Scenery Designed by Michael H. Yeargan ,Costumes by Jeanne Button ,Lighting by Carol M. Waaser ,Selections from Shakespeare and Shaw Selected and Arranged by Michael Feingold, Musical Direction by Don Jennings ,Orchestrations by Jonathan Tunick. It wasn't recorded until 2001 when it was released by Nonesuch, with a cast of Broadway stars, such as Nathan Lane, Davis Gaines, and Brian Stokes Mitchell, recreating their roles from a concert version that was held on May 22, 2000 at the Coolidge Auditorium of the Library of Congress, Washington DC.

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