The Frankel Baruch Viertel Routh Group and NETworks Presentations LLC are pleased to announce that Tony Award winners and original stars of the Broadway production of The New Mel Brooks Musical Young Frankenstein, Roger Bart and Shuler Hensley will reprise the roles of Dr. Frederick Frankenstein and The Monster respectively in the eponymous national tour, opening at PPAC, September 29 - October 4, 2009.
Bart and Hensley will be joined on tour by Cory English (Igor), Tony Award nominee Brad Oscar (Inspector Kemp/ Blind Hermit), Beth Curry (Elizabeth), Joanna Glushak (Frau Blucher), and Anne Horak (Inga).
The company includes Preston Truman Boyd, Stephen Carrasco, Jennifer Lee Crowl, James Gray, Shauna Hoskin, Matthew Brandon Hutchens, Kristin Marie Johnson, Sara Lin Johnson, Melina Kalomas, Amanda Kloots-Larsen, Brittany Marcin, Christopher Ryan, Lara Seibert, Geo Serry, Jennifer Smith, Matthew Vargo, and Eric Walck.
The New Mel Brooks Musical Young Frankenstein features a book by three-time Tony Award winner Mel Brooks and three-time Tony Award winner Thomas Meehan, with music and lyrics by Mel Brooks. The New Mel Brooks Musical Young Frankenstein is directed and choreographed by five-time Tony Award winner Susan Stroman, with musical supervision provided by Glen Kelly .
PPAC President J.L. "Lynn" Singleton said, "PPAC successfully launched three national tours last year and we welcome and eagerly anticipate this outstanding national tour of The New Mel Brooks Musical Young Frankenstein as our Broadway Season opener."
Tickets for The New Mel Brooks Musical Young Frankenstein are on sale now and can be purchased online at www.ppacri.org, by phone at (401) 421-ARTS (2787), or in person at the PPAC Box Office, located at 220 Weybosset Street in downtown Providence. Summer Box Office Hours are Monday-Thursday, 10A-3P and are in effect until Thursday, September 3. Regular Box Office Hours resume Tuesday, September 8 and are Monday-Friday, 10A-5P; Saturday 10A-2P and through curtain time(s) on show days. PPAC offers military discounts in person, by phone, and online for all performances; for further details, call (401) 421-ARTS. Discounted admission is available for groups of 20 or more. For more information, contact Paul Hiatt at phiatt@ppacri.org or call (401) 574-3162.
The national tour of The New Mel Brooks Musical Young Frankenstein launches at PPAC on Tuesday, September 29 at 7P; additional performance dates include Wednesday, September 30 at 7:30P; Thursday, October 1 at 7:30P; Friday, October 2 at 8P; Saturday, October 3 at 2P and 8P; and Sunday, October 4 at 1P and 6:30P. Ticket prices for The New Mel Brooks Musical Young Frankenstein range from $78 to $48; all ticket prices include a $3 per ticket restoration fee.
Based on the Oscar-nominated smash hit 1974 film, The New Mel Brooks Musical Young Frankenstein is a re-imagining of the Mary Shelley classic from the comic genius of Mel Brooks . The musical tells the story of Dr. Frederick Frankenstein, who has desperately tried to distance himself from his mad scientist family, going so far as to insist that he be called Dr. Fron-ken-steen. When he inherits a Transylvanian laboratory and castle from his deranged grandfather, Victor Von Frankenstein, Frederick must decide if he will continue running from his family's tortured past or 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.
Unfolding in the forbidding Castle Frankenstein and the foggy moors of Transylvania Heights, the show's raucous score includes "The Transylvania Mania," "He Vas My Boyfriend," and the unforgettable treatment of Irving Berlin's "Puttin' On the Ritz."
Released in 1974 to unanimous critical acclaim, the film received two Academy Award nominations, including one for Mel Brooks and Gene Wilder's script. Brooks and Wilder were also nominated for a Writer's Guild of America Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. /Young Frankenstein/ was the recipient of the two highest honors accorded films of science fiction: winning The Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation and The Nebula Award, given by The Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America, for Best Dramatic Writing.
