The interval playlist includes Crazy Frog, which isn’t by Stephen Sondheim. But the composer’s own springy numbers are the best reason to catch this rarely seen musical based on ancient Greek satire.
Aristophanes, writing at the fag end of a protracted war, conjures demigod Dionysos, accompanied by Xanthias, his slave (“though I prefer ‘intern’”). He braves the underworld to reclaim a dead genius, picking Aeschylus over Euripides. The musical’s Dionysos considers George Bernard Shaw, but eventually plumps for Shakespeare.
