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When the huge foreign-born challengers showed up at Angels Camp, Calif., they filled U.S. competitors with dread. Back home in Cameroon, it was said, giant African frogs routinely leap up to 40 ft. How could such a performance fail to win the Calaveras County Frog Jump Jubilee...
Little kids won't be able to tell the difference. Kermit the Frog may have lost his original voice, but most people can do a credible Kermit impression. Sesame Street, Fraggle Rock, the Muppets and the Muppet Babies will go on as usual...
...interested in the doings of the Lolo tribes-people, the Tarahumara Indians, or the Berbers, Bedouins and Bushmen knew just where to look. Likewise, those curious about "The Geographical Distribution of Insanity in the U.S." (1903) or "Pelican Profiles" (1943), or anyone "In Quest of the World's Largest Frog" (1967), had a handy reference guide. For most of its 102 years, National Geographic has been a colorful coffee-table companion for armchair explorers, roaming the world with rose-colored glasses and bringing back a cheery album of natives at play. But last week the abrupt firing of veteran editor...
Kupferberg deserves credit for his decision to stage The Frog Prince in a narrow outside patio. The sky at dusk provides a fitting backdrop for the action, and the characters incorporate us into the setting by making their enterances from behind the audience. The Herald (Christopher Davidson) also helps in this capacity--he introduces us to each scene with wonderfully realistic-sounding solos on an imaginary trumpet. Kudos also to the producer Valerie Nestor for the Mickey Mouse blankets distributed beforehand to ward off cold...
...games in The Frog Prince. Not every character lives happily ever after. Frequent allusions are made to a totalitarian government which closes the borders of the kingdom at night, and justice and execution there are arbitrary. But The Frog Prince never loses its delicate balance between cynicism and celebration. As a result Kupferberg's production has a warm, delightful tone, even in its mockery. And that is no mean feat...