If anyone could spin a children's book into gold, it's the cast of Billings Studio Theatre's "A Year with Frog and Toad," and most notably the remarkably animated Kelly Martin.

She takes the frog from her sister and tries to kiss it but finds it gross! Still, she's not a quitter, so she reluctantly leans in slowly, but her sister surprises her by pushing it into her ...

The Frogs , which opened at the Vivian Beaumont Theater as part of the Lincoln Center Festival, was, of course, originally written by laugh-a-minute Aristophanes in 405 B.C.