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From: The Village Voice
Date: 20040728
Author:Feingold, Michael

THE FROGS

By Aristophanes, Shevelove, and Lane

Music and Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim

Vivian Beaumont Theater

150 West 65th Street

212.239.6200

A lot of skill and talent has gone into The Frogs, but somehow there's no creative pooling

THE ILLUSION FIELDS

The Frogs is an oddity: a "revisal," as they're called nowadays, of a show New York has never really seen. It began in 1941, when writer-director Burt Shevelove adapted and directed Aristophanes' comedy for Yale's undergraduate Dramat, attracting wide publicity by staging the farcical piece around and in Yale's Olympic-size swimming pool. In ...

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