YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN Makes Sarasota Premiere at the Van Wezel, 3/22-23

With book by three-time Tony Award winner Mel Brooks and three-time Tony Award winner  Thomas Meehan, Music & Lyrics by BROOKS, and Direction and Choreography by five-time Tony Award winner Susan Stroman, YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN makes its Sarasota Premiere Thurs. and Fri. March 22 & 23, 2012 @ 8 PM at the Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall.

Based on the Oscar-nominated smash hit 1974 film, Young Frankenstein is the 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 Irving Berlin’s “Puttin’ On the Ritz.” 

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, opened on Broadway in 2007 and began the national tour in 2009. The show was named Best Broadway Musical 2008 by the Outer Critics Circle Award and won 5 Broadway.com Audience Awards, including Favorite New Broadway Musical. 

Ticket prices range from $30-$75. For more information and to buy tickets, contact the Van Wezel Box office at (941)953-3368 or log onto www.vanwezel.org. Sponsored by Wilde Lexus of Sarasota and ABC 7.