YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN, the new Mel Brooks Musical from the creative team of the 12-time Tony Award winning smash The Producers, will play Orlando's Bob Carr Performing Arts Centre Tuesday, November 30 through Friday, December 5, 2010.
Tickets for YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN go on sale Friday, October 15 at 10:00a.m. and start at $38.00. Tickets can be purchased at the FAIRWINDS Broadway Across America - Orlando Box Office, Amway Centre Box Office and all Ticketmaster locations. Online purchases can be made at www.OrlandoBroadway.com. To charge-by-phone call 1-800-982-2787. Book a group and save money, group orders may be placed by calling (407) 423-9999 or (800) 950-4647.
YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN will play Tuesday, November 30 through Sunday, December 5, 2010 with evening performances at 8:00 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday, a Saturday matinee at 2:00 p.m., a Sunday matinee at 1:00 p.m., and a Sunday evening performance at 6:30 p.m.
YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN features a book by three-time Tony Award winner
Mel 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.
YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN was named Best Broadway Musical 2008 by the Outer Critics Circle Award and won 5 Broadway.com Audience Awards, including Favorite New Broadway Musical.
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 YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN "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."
YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN played its pre-Broadway engagement at Seattle's Paramount Theatre August 7th - September 1st,2007.
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?
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, 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: 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. Since its release, the film has become part of the national consciousness: 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.
The production team includes three Tony Award winning designers of The Producers: 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.
Jonathan Deans is the sound designer. Two other Producers alumni complete the music department: Tony-award winning orchestrator
Doug Besterman and musical director
Patrick Brady.
For further information, visit YoungFrankensteinTheMusical.com.
FAIRWINDS Broadway Across America - Orlando is presented by Florida Theatrical Association, a non-profit civic organization with a volunteer board of trustees established to ensure the continued presentation of quality touring Broadway productions and the promotion of arts education throughout the state of Florida. FAIRWINDS Broadway Across America - Orlando is given promotional support by WKMG Local 6. For more information, visit www.FloridaTheatrical.org .
Broadway Across America is owned and operated by British theatre producer
John Gore (CEO) and entertainment industry veteran
Thomas B. McGrath (Chairman). Broadway Across America presents first-class touring Broadway musicals and plays, family productions and other live events throughout a network of 43 North American cities. Broadway Across America is also dedicated to the development and production of new and diverse live theatre for productions on Broadway, across America and throughout the world. Broadway Across America most recently produced the Broadway productions of HAIR, WEST SIDE STORY and
Irving Berlin's WHITE CHRISTMAS. Upcoming productions include MINSKY'S, PROMISES, PROMISES, MILLION DOLLAR QUARTET and the West End production of BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY'S. Touring productions include Nickelodeon's STORYTIME ADVENTURES featuring Dora the Explorer and DREAMGIRLS. For more information or to purchase tickets through an authorized agent go to BroadwayAcrossAmerica.com.
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