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A combination concert performance and staged reading of 'The Frogs' by Stephen Sondheim, based on the Aristophanes play and adapted by Burt Shevelove and Nathan Lane, featured high comedy and wonderful rarely-heard music.

The vocal ensemble returns with a thrilling cabaret-style concert of art songs from Mozart to Sondheim to the present day.

The scrappy Secret Theatre, whose snazzy production of 'Cabaret' was an Off-Off-Broadway highlight last year, has done well by another classic big musical with a sinewy 'Gypsy.'

The production boasts a highly talented cast and creative team and, equally important, a big collective heart that gives this smart, reverential take on the iconic show-business musical just the right tone.

Sondheim's brilliant songs make this troubled, sad, unusual musical worth seeing anywhere and anywhen, and the new production at the Astoria Performing Arts Center is a solid one.

The two cast members answer questions about their experiences rehearsing the Tony-winning musical.

Stephen Sondheim turns 80, and Broadway's still here too, but theatre has changed utterly.