The Musicians:
Keyboard/Conductor - R.L. Rowsey
Trumpet - Samantha Engel
Tenor Sax - Simone Kastner
Guitar/Banjo - Dustin Bradley
Percussion - Brian Town

Production Staff:
Direction - John Glenn
Set Design - Dennis Rexroad
Light Design - Genny Wynn
Costume Design - Coleen McDuffee
Wig Design - Bernie Ardia
Stage Management - Tyner Pesch
Running Crew - Cassie Dekker & Russell Wilson
Set Construction - Tim Black, Stan Cherry, Joe Lavigne
House Manager - Jeanne Vilinsky
Photographer - Kirsten Shultz

This production is made possible, in part, through the generosity of Ali Long and Keith Davis, Jane’s, Atkinson’s, St. Luke’s Wood River Medical Center.

Season Sponsors for 2005/ 2206 are First Bank of Idaho, Nationwide Mortgage, Wood River Insurance, Sun Valley Brokers, L.L.C. and media sponsors, The Wood River Journal and sunvalleyonline.com

Arnold Lobel's well-loved characters hop from the page to the stage in Robert and Willie Reale's musical A Year With Frog and Toad. A Year With Frog and Toad remains true to the spirit of the original stories as it follows two great friends, the cheerful and popular Frog and the rather naive Toad, through four, fun-filled seasons. Waking from hibernation in the spring, they proceed to plant gardens, swim, rake leaves and go sledding, learning life lessons along the way, including a most important one about friendship and rejoicing in the attributes that make each of us different and special.

A winning combination of appealing music and lyrics by Robert and Willie Reale, and Arnold Lobel's classic children's books made A Year with Frog and Toad a Broadway success that earned 2004 Tony nominations for best musical, best book, and best original score. The brainchild of Adrianne Lobel (the author's daughter and a veteran stage designer) and the Reale Brothers, Frog and Toad was originally produced at The Children's Theater of Minneapolis, turning Lobel's stories into entertaining vignettes starring the titular amphibians (and colored by jazzy '30s-style music. "The Kite," for example, is an energetic Charleston, "He'll Never Know" is a soft shoe, and "Seeds" illustrates Toad's gentle love of plant life in a lyric ballad.

John Glenn directs the show, with music direction by R.L. Rowsey and choreography by Leslie Harrington. Company of Fools’ cast features Jim Remke as Frog and Andrew Alburger as Toad. Completing the cast are Rachel Abrams, Lynn Allison and John Glenn.

Set Design is by Dennis Rexroad, who designed the Company’s productions of Hedda Gabler, The Man Who Came to Dinner, Buried Child, Songs for a New World, Always…Patsy Cline, The Gift of the Magi, The Laramie Project, The Tempest, Dinner With Friends, James Joyce’s The Dead, True West, Side Man and The Seagull.

10th Anniversary FROG & TOAD Surprises for the Community!!!
Webb Nursery is adding to the entertainment and education by creating a tadpole water feature for the lobby as well as several different plant stations.
The ERC will also have a lobby display to help us understand the wonders of the natural world.
Six sold-out student matinees will be presented during the run. For Company of Fools’ 10th Anniversary Season a very special group of donors, The Guardian Fools, have made 3,000 FREE student matinee tickets available to our Valley’s students. For many of our Valley’s children, student matinees are their first and only introduction to the magic of live theatre.
Mary Jones, the delectable desert magician of Chocolate Moose, will be creating FROG AND TOAD cookies that will be available to purchase during the shows. The Company will also have copies of the Frog and Toad books on sale as well during the run of the show.
To get into the spirit of A YEAR WITH FROG AND TOAD, Denise Simone will be reading from the Frog and Toad books at Iconoclast story time (10AM) in Hailey on April 8, 15, 22 and 29th and Page Klune will be at Iconoclast’s story time (10AM) in Ketchum on April 8th.