UMC TO PRESENT A YEAR WITH FROG AND TOAD

The University of Minnesota Crookston’s Department of Music and Theatre presents “A Year with Frog and Toad.” The play has three different performances including Thursday, November 29 at 7 p.m.; Friday, November 30 at 9:15 a.m.; and Saturday, December 1 at 7 p.m. All performances will be held in Kiehle Auditorium. Admission is $5 for adults, $3 for students and children, and UMN Crookston students can attend for free with their Ucard.
Based on Arnold Lobel’s books and a musical score by Robert and Willie Reale, “A Year with Frog and Toad,” features the friendship of a cheerful frog and a grumpy toad. The musical travels through the four seasons with these two friends as they learn life lessons going about their day to day events. Frog and toad learn to celebrate their differences and realized how this makes them unique.
Under the guidance of Associate Professor George French and produced by Special Arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI), this musical comes to life at UMN Crookston. Starring Bailey Bradford, a sophomore from Mentor, Minn., majoring in English, Caroline Colbert, a post-secondary enrollment option student from Euclid, Minn., Anthony Kampa, a freshman from St. Cloud, Minn., majoring in software engineering, Quincy Luedeke, a junior from Miltona, Minn., majoring in natural resources, Janessa Millar, a freshman from Blaine, Minn., majoring in animal science, and Sam Simmons, a post-secondary enrollment option student from Crookston, Minn. This musical hops from Lobel’s storybook pages into a stage story.