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Première Preview: mardi 24 juillet 1990Première: mardi 24 juillet 1990Dernière: samedi 04 août 1990
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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)
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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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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.En savoir plus sur cette version
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D'après l'œuvre d'Aristophane (405 av JC).
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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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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.En savoir plus sur cette version
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