YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN Opens 2/9 At Orpheum Theater

The New Mel Brooks Musical Young Frankenstein, a hilarious comedy from the creative team of the 12-time Tony Award-winning smash The Producers, debuts in Minnesota at Hennepin Theatre Trust's Orpheum Theatre, Feb. 9-14, 2010. This all-new production features a book by three-time Tony Award-winner Mel Brooks and three-time Tony Award-winner Thomas Meehan, music and lyrics by Brooks and direction and choreography by five-time Tony Award-winner Susan Stroman. Young Frankenstein is presented by Hennepin Theatre Trust as part of its 2009/10 Broadway Across America-Minneapolis Season.

Young Frankenstein was named Best Broadway Musical in 2008 by the Outer Critics Circle and won five Broadway.com Audience Awards, including Favorite New Broadway Musical. Based on the Oscar-nominated smash hit 1974 film, it 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?

Tickets for Young Frankenstein are on sale now. Prices range from $28-78. To purchase, visit www.HennepinTheatreTrust.org, call 1-800-982-2787 or go to the State Theatre Box Office (805 Hennepin Avenue, Minneapolis, 55402) or a Ticketmaster Ticket Center.