Summary: Wife-Husband Team Shirley Mitchell and Heywood Banks translate classic story into musical Swamp Opera. When Shirley Mitchell wrote the script and lyrics for a musical version of the folk tale “Froggy Went A-Courtin’,” she asked the man she calls “the King of Melody” to turn her words into the songs in “Swamp Opera.” No, it wasn’t Barry Manilow. It was her husband Stuart, best known as Heywood Banks, who has been delighting, inspiring, amusing and sometimes even mildly grossing out audiences for years with such songs as “If Pigs Had Wings,” “The Weasel” and the Christmas classic “You Ain’t . . . → Read More: Shirley Mitchell and Heywood Banks talk about their musical Swamp Opera
