YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN Comes To Pantages Theatre 7/27-8/8

The New Mel Brooks Musical YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN, the new musical comedy from the creative team of the 12-time Tony Award® winning smash The Producers, will celebrate its Los Angeles premiere at the Pantages Theatre with a limited two week engagement from July 27 - August 8, 2010.

Tickets may be purchased online at www.BroadwayLA.org or by phone at 1-800-982-ARTS(2787). Tickets may also be purchased in person at the Pantages Box Office and all Ticketmaster ticket outlets. The Pantages Theatre is located at 6233 Hollywood Boulevard, just east of Vine Street, and the box office is open every day beginning at 10AM.

Based on the Oscar-nominated 1974 film, YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN is Mel Brooks' re-imagining of the Mary Shelley classic novel. 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: continue running from his family's tortured past or stay in Transylvania to carry on his grandfather's mad experiments reanimating the dead while in the process, falling in love with his sexy lab assistant Inga? YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN features a score of all new songs by composer and lyricist Mel Brooks including "The Transylvania Mania," "He Vas My Boyfriend", and "Life, Life." Included in the production is a newly envisioned orchestration and staging of Irving Berlin's "Puttin' On the Ritz", a number featured in an iconic scene in the original 1974 film version.

Released in 1974 to unanimous critical acclaim, the film received two Academy Award® nominations, including one for Mel Brooks and Gene Wilder's script, also nominated for a Writer's Guild of America Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. Young Frankenstein was also the recipient of the two highest honors accorded films of science fiction: The Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation and The Nebula Award, given by The Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America, for Best Dramatic Writing. Since its release, the film has also received two of the highest honors which can be bestowed for film: in 2000, it was selected as #13 on AFI's 100 Funniest American Movies of All Time and in 2003, Young Frankenstein was chosen for preservation in the Library of Congress National Film Registry.

Tony Award winners Roger Bart and Shuler Hensley reprise the roles of Dr. Frederick Frankenstein and The Monster in this Los Angeles Premiere. Bart and Hensley who both starred in the original Broadway production will be joined by Cory English (Igor), Tony Award nominee Brad Oscar (Inspector Kemp / Blind Hermit), Beth Curry (Elizabeth), Joanna Glushak (Frau Blucher) and Anne Horak (Inga).

Rounding out the cast of YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN will be Lawrence Alexander, Preston Truman Boyd, Stephen Carrasco, Jennifer Lee Crowl, James Gray, Stacey Todd Holt, Shauna Hoskin, Matthew Brandon Hutchens, Kristin Marie Johnson, Sara Lin Johnson, Melina Kalomas, Amanda Kloots-Larsen, Kevin Ligon, Brittany Marcin, Christopher Ryan, Lara Seibert, Geo Seery, Jennifer Smith, Matthew Vargo and Erick R. Walck.

YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN opened on Broadway November 8, 2007 at the Hilton Theatre where it ran for 485 performances closing on January 4, 2009. The production was named Best Broadway Musical 2008 by the Outer Critics Circle Award and won 5 Broadway.com Audience Awards, including Favorite New Broadway Musical.

YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN features music and lyrics by three-time Tony Award winner Mel Brooks who, with three-time Tony Award winner Thomas Meehan, penned the book. The production is directed and choreographed by five-time Tony Award winner Susan Stroman. Musical Supervision is by Glen Kelly. Rounding out the production team includes three-time Tony Award winning set designer Robin Wagner, five-time Tony Award winning costume designer William Ivey Long and Tony Award winning lighting designer Peter Kaczorowski. Sound design is by Jonathan Deans with orchestrations by Doug Besterman and musical direction by Patrick Brady.

Clive Barnes of the New York Post called YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN, "the Broadway musical at its dizziest, glitziest and funniest" while Pat Collins of MY 9 News declared the show "a monster hit." Jeffrey Lyons of WNBC TV said "this riotously funny musical will knock you clear across 42nd Street" and Roger Friedman of Fox News called it simply, "utter genius."

For more information on YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN, please visit www.YoungFrankensteinTheMusical.com.

The performance schedule for YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN is Tuesday through Friday at 8pm, Saturday at 2pm & 8pm, and Sunday at 1pm & 6:30pm. Tickets range in price from $25 - $85, although prices are subject to change without notice. The Pantages Theatre is located in Hollywood at 6233 Hollywood Boulevard at Vine Street.

YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN is presented locally by Broadway/L.A. as the eighth and final show of its 2010 Season.

For more information, please visit the Pantages Theatre's official website: www.BroadwayLA.org.

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