tracks

Opening Fanfare
Invocation And Instructions To The Audience
"It Is Time We Start Our Journey"
I Love To Travel
Dress Big
I Love To Travel (Reprise)
All Aboard
On The River Styx
Ariadne
The Frogs
Hymn To Dionysos
Hades
It's Only A Play
Shaw
The Contest
Fear No More
All Aboard (Reprise)
Hymn To Dionysos (Reprise)
Final Instructions To The Audience (Reprise)

notes

Story Written by Aristophanes, freely adapted by Burt Shevelove, and even more freely adapted by Nathan Lane.

Recorded October 12, 2004

Plastic jewel case and 48 page booklet packaged within an outer cardboard sleeve.

credits

Art Direction, Design – John Costa (2)
Bass – John Beal
Bassoon [First] – Tom Sefcovic
Bassoon [Second] – Gili Sharett
Cello – Deborah Sepe
Chorus – Bryn Dowling, David Lowenstein, Francesca Harper, Jay Brian Winnick, Jessica Howard, Kathy Voytko, Kenway Hon Wai K. Kua, Luke Longacre, Meg Gillentine, Naomi Kakuk, Pia C. Glenn, Rebecca Eichenberger, Rod Harrelson, Ryan L. Ball, Steve Wilson (23), Tyler Hanes
Clarinet [First] – Les Scott (2)
Clarinet [Second] – Eric Weidman
Concertmistress – Marilyn Reynolds
Conductor – Paul Gemignani
Conductor [Assistant] – Thad Wheeler
Conductor [Associate] – Annbritt duChateau,
Copyist [Music Preparation] – Emily Grishman, Katharine Edmonds
Design [Logo] – Serino Coyne, Inc.
Drums, Percussion – Paul Pizzuti
Edited By – Bart Migal
Engineer [Assistant] – Adam Scheuermann, Bryan Russell (2), Colleen Culhane
Executive-Producer – Philip Chaffin
Harp – Jennifer Hoult
Liner Notes – Nathan Lane, Wendy Wasserstein
Mastered By – Joe Lambert
Music By, Lyrics By – Stephen Sondheim
Orchestrated By – Jonathan Tunick
Percussion – Thad Wheeler
Photography By – Paul Kolnik
Piano, Bass Drum [Gran Cassa] – Annbritt duChateau,
Producer – Tommy Krasker
Recorded By, Mixed By – Tom Lazarus
Trombone [Bass] – Dean Plank
Trombone [First] – Richard Clark (4)
Trombone [Second] – Mike Boschen,
Trumpet [First] – Dominic Derasse
Trumpet [Second] – Phil Granger
Viola – Richard Brice
Violin – Mineko Yajima
Vocals [Ariadne] – Kathy Voytko
Vocals [Charon / Aeakos] – John Byner
Vocals [Dionysos] – Nathan Lane
Vocals [Fire Belly Dancing Frogs] – Luke Longacre, Ryan L. Ball
Vocals [George Bernard Shaw] – Daniel Davis (3)
Vocals [Handmaiden Charisma] – Bryn Dowling
Vocals [Herakles] – Burke Moses
Vocals [Pluto's Hellraisers] – Bryn Dowling, Francesca Harper, Jessica Howard, Meg Gillentine, Naomi Kakuk
Vocals [Pluto] – Peter Bartlett (5)
Vocals [Shavians] – David Lowenstein, Francesca Harper, Jay Brian Winnick, Meg Gillentine, Rebecca Eichenberger, Tyler Hanes
Vocals [Swings] – Eric Michael Gillett, James Brown III (2), Joanne Manning, Mia Price, Timothy Gulan
Vocals [Three Graces] – Jessica Howard, Meg Gillentine, Naomi Kakuk
Vocals [Virilla, The Amazon] – Pia C. Glenn,
Vocals [William Shakespeare] – Michael Siberry
Vocals [Xanthias] – Roger Bart
Written-By [Book "Even More Freely Adapted By"] – Nathan Lane
Written-By [Book "Freely Adapted By"] – Burt Shevelove

companies

Phonographic Copyright (p) – PS Classics
Copyright (c) – PS Classics
Recorded At – The Hit Factory
Mixed At – Classic Sound, New York

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