A Year With Frog and Toad is a musical written by brothers Robert (music) and Willie Reale (book and lyrics), based on the Frog and Toad children's stories written and illustrated by Arnold Lobel.

The musical follows the woodland adventures of two amphibious friends, a worrywart toad and a perky frog, with their assorted colorful hopping, crawling and flying companions, over the course of a year.

The show broke new ground by bringing professional children's theatre to Broadway, sparking the interest of the age 3-to-10 set.

[2] Her husband, actor Mark Linn-Baker, adapted the stories into a theatrical script, and later played Toad in the musical's Broadway debut.

The musical was workshopped in 2000 at New York Stage and Film (at Vassar College) and first produced by the Children's Theatre Company, Minneapolis, premiering on August 23, 2002, closing on November 2, 2002.

[3] It next opened in New York City off-Broadway at The New Victory Theater in November 2002 playing to good reviews[4] and sold-out houses for several weeks.

By the end of summer, leaves cover the ground and the Birds fly south for the winter ("A Year With Frog and Toad (Reprise)").

Toad, angry that Frog had supposedly made him sled down the steep hill on purpose, initially declares to dissolve their friendship.

Toad forgives Frog, and Snail is proud to have delivered his first letter ("I'm Coming Out of My Shell").