in Young Frankenstein
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Tony Award winners Roger Bart and Shuler Hensley will reprise the roles of Dr. Frederick Frankenstein and The Monster in the first national tour of the new Mel Brooks musical Young Frankenstein. The tour will launch at the Providence Performing Arts Center in Providence, Rhode Island, September 29-October 4.
The show, directed and choreographed by Susan Stroman, features a book by Mel Brooks and Thomas Meehan, based on Brooks’ film, and music and lyrics by Brooks. The plot concerns the grandson of the deranged genius Victor Von Frankenstein, who must decide if he should run from his family’s tortured past or 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.
The principal cast will also feature Cory English (Igor), Brad Oscar (Inspector Kemp/Blind Hermit), Beth Curry (Elizabeth), Joanna Glushak (Frau Blucher), and Anne Horak (Inga). The company will include Preston Truman Boyd, Stephen Carrasco, Jennifer Lee Crowl, James Gray, Shauna Hoskin, Matthew Brandon Hutchens, Kristin Marie Johnson, Sara Lin Johnson, Melina Kalomas, Amanda Kloots-Larsen, Brittany Marcin, Christopher Ryan, Lara Seibert, Geo Serry, Jennifer Smith, Matthew Vargo and Eric Walck.
The creative team will include Robin Wagner (set), William Ivey Long (costumes), Peter Kaczorowski (lighting), and Jonathan Deans (sound).
Following Providence, the tour will play Hartford’s The Bushnell (October 6-11), Cleveland’s Palace Theater (October 13-25), Columbus’ Ohio Theatre (October 27-November 1), Chicago’s Cadillac Palace Theatre (November 3-December 13), Washington D.C.’s Opera House (December 15-January 10), and Baltimore’s Hippodrome (January 12-24). The tour has also previously been announced to play such cities as Boston, San Francisco, Toronto, Denver, Houston, and Los Angeles in 2010.
For more information, visit www.YoungFrankensteinTheMusical.com.
