The Frogs (2004 Broadway Cast)
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Edition: Music CDCD Release Date: 2005-01-25
Music Label: P.S. Classics
Soundtracks:
- Opening Fanfare - Orchestra
- Invocation and Instructions to the Audience - Nathan Lane, Roger Bart & Chorus
- We Are Off On a Great Mission - Nathan Lane, Roger Bart
- I Love to Travel - Nathan Lane, Roger Bart & Chorus
- Dress Big - Burke Moses, Nathan Lane & Roger Bart
- I Love to Travel (reprise) - Nathan Lane, Roger Bart
- All Aboard - John Byner
- On the River Styx - Nathan Lane, Roger Bart
- Ariadne - Nathan Lane, Roger Bart
- The Frogs - Nathan Lane, Roger Bart & Chorus
- Hymn to Dionysos - Nathan Lane, Roger Bart & Chorus
- Hades - Peter Bartlett & Chorus
- It's Only a Play - Nathan Lane, Peter Bartlett & Chorus
- Shaw - Nathan Lane, Daniel Davis & Chorus
- The Contest - Nathan Lane, Daniel Davis, Michael Siberry
- Fear No More - Michael Siberry
- All Aboard (reprise) - John Byner
- Hymn to Dionysos (reprise) - Chorus
- Final Instructions to the Audience - Nathan Lane and Company
Music reviews of The Frogs (2004 Broadway Cast)
Music Review: Just Because It's Sondheim...
Rating: 2 Stars
...doesn't mean it deserves 5 stars. Or even 4. It was Sondheim's first score and it shows. Other than one or two cute numbers, it is barely listenable. While the show may have been improved since it's original 1974 production at Yale, it just doesn't come together. I think it is a lovely academic excercise, but it is too anaesthetic and lopsided to serve as anything other than an academic excercise. Sondheim enthusiasts will no doubt rate it highly as they do anything he writes, but objectively, this recording exists solely to satiate showtune collectors.
Description of The Frogs (2004 Broadway Cast)
For a long time, Stephen Sondheim's 1974 compact offering The Frogs was known for two things. It was originally staged in Yale's swimming pool with a chorus that included Sigourney Weaver and Meryl Street; and its song "Invocation and Instructions to the Audience" has become a perennial in Sondheim tributes and cabaret shows. The show was given a belated studio recording in 2001 with Nathan Lane in the lead role of Dionysus. Lane then went back for more--literally, since he adapted and expanded Burt Shevelove's book--and Sondheim wrote several new songs. Finally, The Frogs was a full-length musical, staged in 2004. New tracks "I Love to Travel" and "Ariadne" are on par with Sondheim's best--the first a bouncy song, the latter a wrenching love song that could become a new recital favorite. While this recording is more enjoyable than the actual show, which could be a bit of a slog, it's hard to shake the feeling that maybe The Frogs should have remained a curio. --Elisabeth VincentelliGeneral CDs
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