Young Frankenstein
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SHOW INFORMATION
CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Nov 8, 2007
Closed Jan 4, 2009
Opened Nov 8, 2007
Closed Jan 4, 2009
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Running Time:
2hr. 30min.
(includes 1 intermission)
2hr. 30min.
(includes 1 intermission)
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WHAT IS IT ABOUT?
The musical Young Frankenstein, which features music by Mel Brooks, book by Brooks and Thomas Meehan based on Brooks' 1974 film, and direction and choreography by Susan Stroman, comes to Broadway.
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 "Putting On the Ritz."
A lottery will be held for $25 front row orchestra seats for every performance except Saturday evenings throughout the show's run.
THEATER/VENUE INFORMATION:
Foxwoods Theatre
213 W 42nd St
New York, NY 10036
Canadian impresario Garth Drabinsky tore down The Apollo and Lyric Theatres to create Ford Center For Performing Arts in 1997, which housed his production of the musical Ragtime. Clear Channel Entertainment joined forces with the Hilton Hotels Corpo [...] Read More
213 W 42nd St
New York, NY 10036
Canadian impresario Garth Drabinsky tore down The Apollo and Lyric Theatres to create Ford Center For Performing Arts in 1997, which housed his production of the musical Ragtime. Clear Channel Entertainment joined forces with the Hilton Hotels Corpo [...] Read More
WHAT ARE CRITICS SAYING?
What are other members saying?
It's not the Producers ....
nor could it be. The brain of Mel Brooks is an interesting place, and this collection of sight-gags, slap-sticks, and double entendres gives us a peek inside. The score is weak and the set huge but this production provides a welcome break from a world that isnt particularly warm this holiday season.
Reviewed by morsesline
on Saturday, Dec 13th, 2008
RE: Young Frankenstein
it had to be the best show EVER! Christopher was hilarious and puttin on the ritz was amazing. i hope they come out with the DVD of the show!
Reviewed by futurebroadwaystar714
on Wednesday, Dec 3rd, 2008
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An extravagantly silly number called "Roll in the Hay" spills sexual innuendo all over the Hilton Theatre stage just about 20 minutes into Mel Brooks' Young Frankenstein, the musical adaptation of the 1974 laff-riot flick he co-wrote with Gene Wilder. The sequence -- dumb in the dumb-like-a-fox manner typical of Brooks' best work -- is one of a series of entertaining sequences that make this follow-up to The Producers a Transylvanian barrel of fun, even if it falls short of the vaunted level reached by its uproarious predecessor.
In the break-out routine, Roger Bart as earnest scientist Frederick Frankenstein, Sutton Foster as self-appointed sexy assistant Inga, and Christopher Fit[...]