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Full Cast Announced for Mel Brooks' Young Frankenstein
By Kenneth Jones
25 Jun 2007
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Roger Bart, Megan Mullally, Sutton Foster, Shuler Hensley, Fred Applegate, Christopher Fitzgerald and Andrea Martin will lead the cast of Young Frankenstein.
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Casting is complete for Mel Brooks' new Broadway-bound musical, Young Frankenstein, which will come alive in Seattle in August prior to a fall Broadway bow.
The production stars Roger Bart (Dr. Frederick Frankenstein), Megan Mullally (Elizabeth), Sutton Foster (Inga), Shuler Hensley (The Monster), Andrea
Martin (Frau Blucher), Fred Applegate (Kemp) and Christopher Fitzgerald
(Igor), with an ensemble to include Heather Ayers, Jim Borstelmann, Paul
Castree, Jen Lee Crowl, Jack Doyle, James Gray, Amy Heggins, Eric Jackson,
Kristin Marie Johnson, Renee Feder, Matthew LaBanca, Kevin Ligon, Barrett
Martin, Linda Mugleston, Christina Marie Norrup, Justin Patterson, Brian
Shepard, Sarrah Strimel, Craig Waletzko and Courtney Young.
The musical based on Brooks' Academy Award-nominated film comedy has book by Brooks and Thomas Meehan, music and lyrics by Brooks, direction and choreography by Susan Stroman.
Musical supervision is by Glen Kelly, who helped make Brooks' words and music in The Producers soar to Tony-winning effect.
Opening at Broadway's Hilton Theatre will be Nov. 8 following previews that start Oct. 11.
The world premiere engagement runs Aug. 7-Sept. 1 at Seattle's Paramount Theatre.
Robert F.X. Sillerman and Mel Brooks present new musical from the creative team of the 12-time Tony Award winning smash The Producers. They are obviously hoping lightning strikes twice.
According to the producers, "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?"
The show is set "in the forbidding Castle Frankenstein and the foggy moors of
Transylvania Heights." The song titles include "The Transylvania
Mania," "He Vas My Boyfriend" and the unforgettable treatment of Irving
Berlin's "Puttin' On the Ritz."
Tickets for Broadway will go on sale July 15. For information,
visit www.YoungFrankensteinTheMusical.com.
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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.
The 1974 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. In 2000, it
was selected as No. 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.
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The leading players of Young Frankenstein.
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| photo by Erin Baiano/Paul Kolnik Studio |
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