Andrea Martin Joins Cast of Broadway-Bound Young Frankenstein

Tony Award winner Andrea Martin has joined the cast of Mel Brooks' new musical Young Frankenstein as Frau Blucher, the role created in the 1974 film by Cloris Leachman. The show is scheduled to begin previews on October 11 at the Hilton Theatre and open on Broadway November 9, directed and choreographed by Susan Stroman. A pre-Broadway engagement at Seattle's Paramount Theatre will run August 7-September 1.

Martin joins the previously announced Roger Bart Dr. Frederick Frankenstein, Megan Mullally Elizabeth, Sutton Foster Inga, Shuler Hensley The Monster, Fred Applegate Kemp and Christopher Fitzgerald Igor.

Young Frankenstein is Mel Brooks' 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."

Martin won a Tony for My Favorite Year and was nominated for Tonys for her performance in Oklahoma! and Candide. She alwo appeared on Broadwway in Fiddler on the Roof. Her off-Broadway credits include The Exonerated, The Vagina Monologues, Encores! Out of This World, The Merry Wives of Windsor and Nude Nude Totally Nude. At Williamstown, she appeared in The Royal Family, A Midsummer Night's Dream and The Matchmaker. Film and television credits include New York Minute, My Big Fat Greek Wedding, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, All Over the Guy, Wag the Dog, Stepping Out, Sesame Street and her fondly remembered Emmy-winning stint on SCTV.