Amphibians 'R' Us

Children’s theater has a lot of street cred these days, and part of the reason is A Year with Frog and Toad, a sweet little tadpole of a musical that gave The Children’s Theatre Company of Minneapolis a Broadway hit in 2003. The show received three Tony nominations, and helped CTC nab a Tony award for Best Regional Theater the following year, a first for a youth-oriented company. Based on Arnold Reale’s charming, simple children’s books, the show’s strengths are, well, its charm and simplicity.
There’s plenty of that in the new production by First Stage Children’s Theatre. There isn’t much story here—the play doesn’t really aspire to anything but what its title suggests—but, director Tony Clements is a music theater veteran, and he knows how to keep things springing right along.

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