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BURT SHEVELOVE (1915 - 1982) |
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Nationality: USA Email: n/a Website: n/a |
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Plays by Burt Shevelove |
Frogs, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Yale University Swimming Pool, New Haven | 1974 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | Original Broadway recording: PS Classics (PS-525) 2004 | doollee no | #66348 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | Musical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | A comedy written in 405 b.c. by Aristophanes; "The Frogs" freely adapted by Burt Shevelove; "The Frogs" even more freely adapted by Nathan Lane; Music by Stephen Sondheim; Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim; Lyrics for "Fear No More" from "Cymbeline" by William Shakespeare | |||||
Synopsis: | Setting: The time is the present. The place is Ancient Greece | |||||
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Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum, A | ||
| 1st Produced: | Alvin Theatre, NY | 08 May 1962 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Dodd, Mead & Company, New York, 1963 | ISBN/ASIN: | bc-3002 | |||
| Music: | Original cast recording: Bay Cities (3002) 1962 | doollee no | #66349 | |||
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Genre: | Musical | |||||
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Notes: | Music by Stephen Sondheim; Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim; Book by Burt Shevelove and Larry Gelbart; A musical comedy based on the plays of Plautus | |||||
| Setting: Two hundred years before the Christian era, a day in spring. A street in Rome in front of the houses of Erronius, Senex and Lycus. Tony Award winning musical that starred the great Zero Mostel as a Roman slave trying to win his freedom. The original production ran for 964 performances and was later filmed with Mostel in the lead along with Jack Gilford and the great Buster Keaton. | |||||
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