Casting is complete for Young Frankenstein, the Broadway-bound new musical from the creative team of The Producers. 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.
Joining previously announced 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 will be company members 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.
Based on the Oscar-nominated 1974 film, 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."
Young Frankenstein features a book by three-time Tony Award winner Mel Brooks and three-time Tony Award winner Thomas Meehan and music and lyrics by Brooks.
