Jonathan Groff & Daniel Evans play 'Shakespeare vs. Sondheim'

[Wayman_Wong]

Jonathan Groff & Daniel Evans play 'Shakespeare vs. Sondheim'#1

Posted: 6/17/26 at 9:47am

Ahead of his RSC debut as Rosalind in ''As You Like It,'' Tony Award winner Jonathan Groff gets put to the test about the Bard vs. Broadway.

(But Evans missed asking the perfect quiz question to end on: Quoting ''Fear No More'' from ''The Frogs,'' Sondheim's setting of Shakespeare!)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9rk_ecdwCw

[TNick926]

Jonathan Groff & Daniel Evans play 'Shakespeare vs. Sondheim'#2

Posted: 6/17/26 at 4:43pm

The Frogs was written by Aristophanes, not Shakespeare….

[Kad]

Jonathan Groff & Daniel Evans play 'Shakespeare vs. Sondheim'#3

Posted: 6/17/26 at 4:46pm

TNick926 said: "The Frogs was written by Aristophanes, not Shakespeare…."

Wayman_Wong means "Fear No More" is Sondheim setting Shakespeare to music used in the adaptation of The Frogs. 

"...everyone finally shut up, and the audience could enjoy the beginning of the Anatevka Pogram in peace."

Updated On: 6/17/26 at 04:46 PM

[TNick926]

Jonathan Groff & Daniel Evans play 'Shakespeare vs. Sondheim'#4

Posted: 6/17/26 at 7:35pm

Thank you, Kad! Now I understand! (And makes me wonder if Sondheim ever set any other author’s words to music?)