Sondheim wrote the score for Burt Shevelove's adaptation of Aristophanes's The Frogs, which was staged in a swimming pool as part of the Yale Repertory Theatre's 1974 season. The production is mainly famous because of its cast - Yale drama students who were nobodies at the time, but went on to great things, including Larry Blyden (Dionysos), Christopher Durang, Meryl Streep, and Sigourney Weaver.
The exact script performed in the original production seems to have never been performed again and the dialogue was apparently often different from that in the present script. We understand this first publication to document a revised version first performed in the 1975 Great Lakes Shakespeare Festival production.
Sondheim wrote the score for Burt Shevelove's adaptation of Aristophanes's The Frogs, which was staged in a swimming pool as part of the Yale Repertory Theatre's 1974 season. The production is mainly famous because of its cast - Yale drama students who were nobodies at the time, but went on to great things, including Larry Blyden (Dionysos), Christopher Durang, Meryl Streep, and Sigourney Weaver.
The exact script performed in the original production seems to have never been performed again and the dialogue was apparently often different from that in the present script. We understand this first publication to document a revised version first performed in the 1975 Great Lakes Shakespeare Festival production.