Mel Brooks' latest mega-Broadway musical, Young Frankenstein, is gearing up for an out-of-town production at Seattle's Paramount Theatre, running from August 7th through September 1st, before heading to Broadway's Hilton Theatre, with an opening night scheduled for November 8th, 2007. Previews begin October 11th.
Starring in Young Frankenstein are Roger Bart (Dr. Frederick Frankenstein), Megan Mullally (Elizabeth), Sutton Foster (Inga), Shuler Hensley (The Monster), Andrea Martin (Frau Blucher), Fred Applegate (Kemp) and Christopher Fitzgerald (Igor).
"Based on the Oscar-nominated smash-hit 1974 film, Young Frankenstein is the wickedly inspired re-imaging of the Mary Shelley classic from the comic genius of Mel Brooks," state press notes. "When Dr. Frederick Frankenstein, an esteemed New York brain surgeon and professor, inherits a castle and laboratory in Transylvania from his grandfather, deranged genius Dr. Victor Von Frankenstein, he faces a dilemma. Does he continue to run from his family's tortured past or does he stay in Transylvania to carry on his grandfather's mad experiments reanimating the dead, and, in the process, fall in love with his sexy lab assistant Inga?"
Sitting at a local Seattle coffee shop, Christopher Fitzgerald, along with his newborn baby, talked with BroadwayWorld's James Sims about his vaudeville like beginnings, leading to a role in the original Broadway cast of Wicked, and now as Igor in Young Frankenstein.
As you are in Seattle, for the Young Frankenstein out-of-town run, it seems only fitting that you are in a coffee shop.
There is a Starbucks across the street from a Starbucks. It's one of those things where the universe is coming to an end. You walk out of a Starbucks and there is another Starbucks. Only in Seattle.
So you and your wife, actress Jessica Stone, have welcomed someone new into your family.
I have a newborn baby actually attached to my chest right now. The baby is literally 17 days old. It's quite an experience, along with opening a giant new show. A lot of big new things are happening in my life. I think it has put some stuff into perspective, and I think I am a little less neurotic because of this little peanut.
