Young Frankenstein, based on Brooks' 1974 film, features a book by three-time Tony Award-winner Brooks and three-time Tony Award-winner Thomas Meehan and music and lyrics by Brooks. Young Frankenstein is directed and choreographed by five-time Tony Award-winner Susan Stroman. Musical supervision is by Glen Kelly. The Young Frankenstein cast boasts four Tony Award-winners in Bart, Foster, Hensley and Martin. Cumulatively, the production's creative team and cast have garnered 27 Tony Awards and 54 Tony Award nominations. Young Frankenstein will play its pre-Broadway engagement at Seattle's Paramount Theatre August 7th - September 1st. Tickets for Broadway will go on sale Sunday, July 15th.
"Based on the Oscar-nominated smash hit 1974 film, Young Frankenstein is the wickedly inspired re-imagining of the Mary Shelley classic from the comic genius of Mel Brooks. When Frederick Frankenstein, an esteemed New York brain surgeon and professor, inherits a castle and laboratory in Transylvania from his grandfather, deranged genius 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?," state press notes. "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.'"
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