D'après l'œuvre d'Aristophane (405 av JC).
Sondheim had not yet written his setting of "Fear No More" at the time of the original production at Yale. It was first performed in the 1975 production at the Great Lakes Shakespeare Festival.
The playbill for the premiere production at Yale contained the following credit: "The words of William Shakespeare and Bernard Shaw have been selected and arranged from their works by Michael Feingold." By the next production—in 1975 at the Great Lakes Shakespeare Festival—Feingold was no longer credited. Instead, Jo Durden-Smith was credited. We don't have a playbill from that production to provide the precise wording of the credit, but in the script published by The Dramatic Publishing Company in 1975, it said " .. the words of William Shakespeare and Bernard Shaw have been selected from their works by Jo Durden-Smith." That script seems to have been based on the revised text produced at Great Lakes.
In the 1980s, Dodd, Mead & Company published the script in a volume also containing A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum. In that edition, Feingold was credited on the page that listed the credits for the original Yale production. Durden-Smith was nowhere credited.
The selections did, in fact, change considerably between the Yale production and the published script (although there was some overlap). The script is essentially the same in both published editions.
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Frogs (The) (1974-05-Yale University Swimming Pool-New Heaven)
Type de série: OriginalThéâtre: Yale University Swimming Pool (New Heaven - Etats-Unis) Durée : Nombre : 8 représentationsPremière Preview : 20 May 1974
Première: 20 May 1974
Dernière: 25 May 1974Mise en scène : Burt Shevelove • Chorégraphie : Carmen de Lavallade • Producteur : Star(s) :
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Frogs (The) (1975-??-Civic Auditorium-Lakewood)
Type de série: RevivalThéâtre: Civic Auditorium (Lakewood - Etats-Unis) Durée : Nombre : Première Preview : Inconnu
Première: Inconnu
Dernière: InconnuMise en scène : Lawrence Carra • Chorégraphie : ???? ???? • Producteur : Star(s) : Commentaires longs: Great Lakes Shakespeare Festival Production
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Frogs (The) (1990-07-Brentford Baths-Londres)
Type de série: RevivalThéâtre: Brentford Baths (Londres - Angleterre) Durée : 1 semaine Nombre : Première Preview : 24 July 1990
Première: 24 July 1990
Dernière: 04 August 1990Mise en scène : John Gardyne • Chorégraphie : Ron Howell • Producteur : Star(s) : Avec: Rory Johnstone (Bernard Shaw), John Sheppard (Pluto), Geoff Sanders (Shakespeare), Richard Zajdlic (Dionysos), Bob Husson (Xanthias), Ian Temple (Herakles), Steve Pavey (Charon), Anne O'Brien (Virilla), Bronwen James (Charisma), Peter Saracen (Aeakos)Commentaires : This was originally written for the Yale Repertory Theatre and performed in the Yale swimming baths (since the Frogs are aquatic creatures!)
This original production is most famous for having Meryl Streep, Sigourney Weaver and Christopher Durang in the chorus. This British premiere was a community opera venture with a mixture of professional and amateur performers running for two weeks at a public swimming pool in West London. In 2004 the show was greatly expanded, re-written and given several new songs for a Broadway production which managed just 92 performances following a critical drubbing.
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Frogs (The) (2000-05-Coolidge Auditorium - Library of Congress-Washington)
Type de série: ConcertThéâtre: Coolidge Auditorium - Library of Congress (Washington - Etats-Unis) Durée : Nombre : 0 previews - 1 représentationsPremière Preview : 22 May 2000
Première: 22 May 2000
Dernière: 22 May 2000Mise en scène : Nathan Lane • Chorégraphie : Aucun • Producteur : Star(s) : Commentaires longs: Avec; Davis Gaines, Nathan Lane, Brian Stokes Mitchell, …
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Frogs (The) (2004-06-Vivian Beaumont Theatre-LCPA-New York)
Type de série: RevivalThéâtre: Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts (New-York - Etats-Unis) Durée : 2 mois 2 semaines Nombre : 32 previews - 92 représentationsPremière Preview : 22 June 2004
Première: 22 July 2004
Dernière: 10 October 2004Mise en scène : Susan Stroman • Chorégraphie : Susan Stroman • Producteur : Star(s) : Avec: Le cast comprend: Dionysos: Nathan Lane / Xanthias: Roger Bart / Herakles: Burke Moses / Charon & Aekos: John Byner / Pluto: Peter Bartlett / George Bernard Shaw: Daniel Davis / William Shakespeare: Michael Siberry / Handmaiden Charisma: Bryn Dowling / Virilla: Pia C. Glenn / Ariadne: Kathy VoytkoCommentaires : For this production, Nathan Lane made significant revisions to the original book and Stephen Sondheim wrote six new songs and revised the lyrics in the opening number. According to Sondheim, the material was 4/5 Lane's.
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