"We are come to thank you for the gentle tendrils that intertwine to produce the grapes that produce the wine... Out of wine comes truth, out of truth the vision clears, and with vision soon appears a grand design. From the grand design we can understand the world. And when you understand the world, you need a lot more wine
"We are come to thank you for the gentle tendrils that intertwine to produce the grapes that produce the wine... Out of wine comes truth, out of truth the vision clears, and with vision soon appears a grand design. From the grand design we can understand the world. And when you understand the world, you need a lot more wine."* These lines appear in the song "Hymn to Dionysus" from this musical, the original production of which Stephen Sondheim described as "working in a urinal". FTP, what is this musical, the plot of which concerns the attempts of Dionysus to bring George Bernard Shaw back to life and which is very loosely based on a play by Aristophanes?
"We are come to thank you for the gentle tendrils that intertwine to produce the grapes that produce the wine...
The Frogs