One Night in Frogtown - Tapa dura

"ONE NIGHT IN FROGTOWN" A group of tadpoles are snuggled inside their eggs, ready for bed. But they're having trouble getting to sleep because a certain tadpole named Tad is playing his saxophone, and he keeps on playing, until his bubble goes pop! Suddenly free, he swims off to find the "Faraway Music" he has been hearing.Tad comes across three distinct groups of grownup frogs; the "Blues Frogs", the "Classical Frogs", and the "Rap Frogs". Tad is welcomed as he plays along with each on his saxophone, but he's rejected when he says he likes other kinds of music too. Tad cannot understand their prejudices against other kinds of music played by different color frogs.Heart-broken, Tad goes off in the rain and expresses his feelings of loneliness in a beautiful song called "Alone". The other frogs hear him and start to join in quietly, for they too know what it is like to feel alone. Tad hears them, and points out that they're playing together instead of apart. The frogs all realize they have more in common than they thought they did, and in a unifying moment they come together for the joyous finale number "Frogtown".

"ONE NIGHT IN FROGTOWN" is the latest creation from award-winning writer/composer Philip Pelletier. Known to occasionally sit in puddles and eat flies, he has won numerous awards, including Best Director at the LA International Film Festival, Grand Prize at The NY Funny Shorts Fest, and a Media Masters Award. Official selections in over 75 film festivals worldwide, his work has been honored at the Lucille Ball Comedy Museum and the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art.Prior to "One Night In Frogtown", Pelletier composed, conducted & produced the music for the Emmy-Award-winning children´s television series “Rapmatazz” for ABC-TV. A prolific composer and surprisingly strong swimmer, he has created film & television scores for Amblin´ Entertainment, CBS, Paramount, 20th Century Fox, Universal Studios and Warner Brothers. Pelletier enjoys working with all kinds of musicians, (human and otherwise), from the LA Philharmonic Orchestra to the Wille Nelson Band.Pelletier made a splash in the world of animation when he co-founded the award-winning Swankytown Studios (www.swankytown.com) in 1998 with partner Verne Lindner, and was named one of Animation Magazine´s top 15 digital animation creators. His work has been featured in the NY Times, Wired, Premiere, Variety, Hollywood Reporter, and BBC World News.Pelletier graduated from Berklee College of Music with a degree in Film-Scoring Composition, which he received from BB King. Pelletier also attended Bard College, where he spent many enjoyable hours discussing cinema with Adolfas Mekas and drinking tiny cups of unusually strong lithuanian coffee.Pelletier enjoys a semi-aquatic lifestyle on the Oregon Coast with his partner Heather and her daughter Christina, happily hopping about by day and croaking contently at night.