Tony Winner Mel Brooks Eyeing 2016 West End Bow for Reworked Young Frankenstein

"Transylvania Mania" may be heading to London! Mel Brooks is reworking his stage musical adaptation of Young Frankenstein and aiming for it to make its West End premiere in 2016. According to The Daily Mail, the Tony winner is partnering with his The Producers collaborator Susan Stroman on the project. Tony winner Stroman also directed and choreographed Young Frankenstein when it bowed on Broadway in 2007.

Penned by Brooks and Tom Meehan, the tuner is based on the Oscar-nominated 1974 film, Young Frankenstein, and is a comic re-imagining of the Mary Shelley classic. 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."

Brooks hopes to cast the musical with Brits. The original Great White Way production officially opened on November 8, 2007 and starred Roger Bart as Frankenstein, Megan Mullally as Elizabeth, Christopher Fitzgerald as Igor, Sutton Foster as Inga, Andrea Martin as Frau Blucher, Shuler Hensley as The Monster and Fred Applegate as Inspector Kemp. Young Frankenstein closed on Broadway on January 4, 2009 after 485 performances.