A YEAR WITH FROG AND TOAD opens tonight!

As we prepare to open A Year With Frog and Toad in less than two hours, Artistic Director Carl Forsman muses on his history with musical theater:

I have directed or produced about fifty plays professionally, but A YEAR WITH FROG AND TOAD is my first musical comedy. And it has been a definite adventure, with so many new things to consider.

Well, new in a sense. Like so many theater artists, musicals were my introduction to the theater. My parents met doing Cole Porter's CAN-CAN in college. I saw GODSPELL on Broadway when I was in elementary school. I was in GUYS AND DOLLS in junior high, and was in OKLAHOMA my senior year of high school. I grew up listening to my parents cast albums, and my mom directed the musicals at the high school she worked at. So there is a base of knowledge about the genre that I have - like so many people.

It's really fun to get back to musical theater now after so many years. And this production embraces plenty of things that are traditionally associated with the form: Spotlights. Footlights. A pit for the band. Cookies on bungie cords. Wait, what? Oh, drat, that's supposed to be a secret. You see, there are a few twists we've put on things. But to find out the rest, you'll have to come join us for A YEAR WITH FROG AND TOAD. Like I remember, you walk out humming the tunes and with a smile on your face. Some things never change.