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Throwback Thursday: making a splash
Our November 21, 1941, cover featured a photo from a Yale Dramat production of Aristophanes’s Frogs, staged by drama student Burt Shevelove in the exhibition pool of Payne Whitney Gymnasium. The show featured members of the Yale swim team in the collective title role. Shevelove went on to be a successful writer and director, cowriting the book for A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum. In 1974, he returned to Payne Whitney with the Yale Rep for a musical comedy adaptation of The Frogs, with music by Stephen Sondheim. Once again, Yale swimmers played the frogs. The Aristophanes play was resonant for generations of Yalies, because the sound made by the frogs in Hades—"Brek-ek-ek-ex, ko-ax, ko-ax"—was the foundation of the "Long Cheer” performed at athletic events. 
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