The Village Voice, July 28th, 2004
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...
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