Photo Preview: Young Frankenstein
By: BWW Jun. 25, 2007
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Robert F.X. Sillerman and Mel Brooks present The New Mel Brooks Musical Young Frankenstein, a new musical comedy from the creative team of the 12-time Tony Award winning smash The Producers, opening on Broadway November 8th 2007 at the Hilton Theatre (213 W 42nd St). Previews begin October 11th, 2007.
The production stars 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).
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.'"
Visit www.youngfrankensteinthemusical.com for more information.
Photos by Erin Baiano/Paul Kolnik Studio
Shuler Hensley, Megan Mullally and Roger Bart
(Standing) Roger Bart, Megan Mullally, Shuler Hensley, Fred Applegate and Andrea Martin; (Sitting) Sutton Foster and Christopher Fitzgerald
(Standing) Roger Bart, Susan Stroman, Thomas Meehan, Robert Sillerman, Sutton Foster, Shuler Hensley, Andrea Martin, Christopher Fitzgerald; (sitting) Mel Brooks and Megan Mullally
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