His musical "Tales from the Manhattan Woods," based on Strauss' Die Fledermaus, recently completed a successful run at the Wings Theatre.
Stroppel's full-length comedy "Fortune's Fools" was produced off-Broadway at the Cherry Lane Theater and "Actor!"
Fred is also in collaboration with Brett Somers frequently and wrote a trio of comedies called "Danger, People At Large" for her and her ex-husband, Jack Klugman.
[1] Archived 2006-09-04 at the Wayback Machine Most recently, he is writing the book for a new, original musical - "The Girl in the Red Dress" - whose composers are Maia Sharp, Buddy Mondlock, and Art Garfunkel.
For theater, Fred has written Brainstorms, which was a one-act comedy produced by "A Small Company In America Productions."