The Frogs

World Premiere Cast (1974)

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Recording Info

Recording Type: Private
Origin: Live/Audience
Material Included: Complete Show
Date Recorded: May 1974

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Credits

Staff

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Conductor

Don Jennings

Cast

... Dionysos	Larry Blyden
... Xanthias	Michael Vale (i)
... Herakles	Dan Desmond
... Charon	Charles Levin
... Hierophantes	Ron Recasner
... Aeakos	Alvin Epstein
... A Handmaiden	Carmen de Lavallade
... An Inkeeper's Wife	Carmen de Lavallade
... An Innkeeper	Stephen R. Lawson
... Pluto	Jeremy Dempsey
... William Shakespeare	Jeremy Geidt
... Bernard Shaw	Anthony Holland
... Guards	Joseph Costa Jonathan Marks Gil Rochon III Paul Schierhorn
... Flagbearers	Christopher Brown (iii) Darryl Hill
... A Band of Initiates: Singers	Joan Berliner Peter Bogyo Alma Cuervo Franchelle Stewart Dorn Christopher Durang Beth Hatton Brock Holmes Richard Larsen Stephen R. Lawson Susan LeFevre Kate McGregor Stewart Robert Picardo Ron Recasner Stephen Rowe Jeremy Smith Meryl Streep David Thomas (ii) Scott Ulmer Sigourney Weaver Donald Woodall
... A Band of Initiates: Dancers	Diana Belshaw Linda K. Harold Nora Peterson Ron Porter Diana Raffman Susan Strassburger Alfonso Wilson Kathryn Woglom
... A Splash of Frogs: The Leader	Steve Edelson
... A Splash of Frogs	Wade Agurcia Michael Armstrong Robert Barnett Michael Cadden Jack Callahan Gary Cavaliere Peter Crawford David B. Fisher Ed Hornsby Alexander Lawler Quentin Lawler Frank Lawlor Kevin Lawlor Dave Lichten Pat Monahan Ralph Redpath Curt Sanburn Ted Stein Jose A. Taboada Richard Taus Bob Van Nest

Track List

Tracks

Prologos: Invocation to the Gods and Instructions to the Audience .... Dionysos and Xanthias
Parodos: The Frogs .... Chorus
Hymnos: Dionysos .... Dionysians
Parabasis: It's Only a Play .... Hierophantes and Dionysians
Paean: Evoe for the Dead .... Dionysos and Dionysians
Exodos: The Sound of Poets .... Dionysians

Trivia & History

Surprisingly good sound, except during the title song (sung by a large chorus in a swimming pool), given the apparently impossible acoustics of the space in which it was performed.

Recording Info

Recording Type: Private
Origin: Live/Audience
Material Included: Complete Show
Date Recorded: May 1974

Identifying Features: not entered yet
Recorded By: not entered yet