The Frogs (musical) by Stephen Sondheim

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The Frogs (musical) by Stephen Sondheim is a stage adaptation of Aristophanes’ ancient Greek comedy, featuring Sondheim’s distinctive score and lyrics in a satirical story about Dionysus journeying to the underworld to bring back a great writer.

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instanceOf stage musical
theatrical adaptation
basedOn The Frogs (play)
linked to: The Frogs
basedOnWorkBy Aristophanes
bookBy Burt Shevelove
broadwayClosingDate 2004-10-10
broadwayOpeningDate 2004-07-22
broadwayTransfer Vivian Beaumont Theater
choreographerOfOriginalProduction Susan Stroman
composer Stephen Sondheim
countryOfOrigin United States
directorOfOriginalProduction Burt Shevelove
featuresCharacter Aeschylus
Dionysus
Euripides
Herakles
linked to: Heracles

Xanthias
genre comedy
musical theatre
satire
hasOriginalCastRecording The Frogs (Original Cast Recording)
linked to: The Frogs
language English
lyricist Stephen Sondheim
musicStyle Stephen Sondheim’s late-20th-century Broadway style
notableRevival 2004 Lincoln Center Theater production
notableSong Ariadne
Dress Big
Fear No More
Final Instructions to the Audience
Hades
I Love to Travel
Invocation and Instructions to the Audience
Shaw
The Frogs
orchestrator Jonathan Tunick
originalLanguage English
premiereDate 1974-07-20
premiereLocation Yale University
premiereVenue Yale University swimming pool
producedAt Yale Repertory Theatre
revisedBookBy Nathan Lane
setting Ancient Greece
linked to: Greek Antiquity

the underworld
subject Dionysus
journey to the underworld
literary greatness
political satire
theme political engagement through art
responsibility of artists in society

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The Frogs hasModernAdaptation The Frogs (musical) by Stephen Sondheim
Kenneth Posner notableWork The Frogs (Lincoln Center Theater production)
linked to: The Frogs (musical) by Stephen Sondheim