Back by popular demand for the seventh time!
Frog and Toad hop from the page to the stage in this whimsical and irresistible retelling of Arnold Lobel’s A Year With Frog and Toad. This version of the Tony-nominated musical follows two great friends — the cheerful, popular Frog, and the grumpy Toad — through all of their fun-filled escapades! Part vaudeville, part magic, and all charm, this audience favorite tells a story of friendship that endures every season.
MEET THE AUTHORS
Arnold Stark Lobel was born in Los Angeles, California, to Lucille Stark and Joseph Lobel, and raised in Schenectady, New York, the hometown of his parents, by his German-Jewish grandparents.[1] Lobel was frequently bullied in his childhood and often read picture books at his local library.He attended the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn. In 1955, after he graduated, he married Anita Kempler, also a children's writer and illustrator whom he'd met while in art school. The two worked in the same studio and collaborated on several books together. They had a daughter, Adrianne, and a son, Adam, followed by three grandchildren. Adrianne and Adam have donated more than 600 of their father's artworks to the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art.
Lobel loved his work and once said, "I cannot think of any work that could be more agreeable and fun than making books for children"; rather than a writer or author, he called himself a "daydreamer".
MEET THE DIRECTOR
Amanda Wansa Morgan is an Atlanta-based director, music director, composer/arranger, and educator who serves as the Artistic Director of the Department of Theatre and Performance Studies at Kennesaw State University, where she is also Coordinator of Musical Theatre & Associate Professor, teaching various musical theatre courses. She also served on faculty at The University of Mississippi (Ole Miss). Amanda has music directed at The Alliance Theatre, Six Flags Over Georgia, Atlanta Lyric Theater, The Jennie T. Anderson Theater, Actor’s Express (2018 Suzi Bass Award for The Color Purple), Synchronicity Theater, Buicentennial Productions, Wallace Buice Theatre Co., Charleston Stage, Playhouse on the Square, and Post Playhouse. She has served as director for the Jennie T. Anderson Overture series productions of Next to Normal (2022 & 2023; Suzi Bass nomination); and The Light in the Piazza (2023). Her original musicals compositions have been seen at Orlando Shakespeare Theatre, Charleston Stage, and at various universities. MFA in Acting from The University of Central Florida and undergraduate degrees in theatre and music from The Florida State University. She is the author/editor of Conversations with Women in Musical Theatre Leadership (Routledge, 2023). Amanda proudly serves as the Co-Chair of Regional & Affinity Groups for Maestra Music Inc, providing support, visibility, and community to women in musical theatre music. Check out more information at: www.amandawansamorgan.com
Cast + Crew
Amanda Wansa Morgan
Director & Music Director
John Lumapas
Assistant Music Director
Lyndsay Brown
Choreographer
Vallea E. Woodbury
Production Manager
Ryan Bradburn
Scenic Designer
Courtney Loner
Properties Designer
Nicole Clockel
Costume Designer
Original Direction by
Clint Thornton
Original Music Direction by
Bryan Mercer
Original Choreography by
Jen MacQueen