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Megan Mullally to Host Actors Fund Gala

Megan Mullally to Host Actors Fund Gala

Young Frankenstein star Megan Mullally will host the 2008 Actors Fund Gala on May 5 at Cipriani 42nd Street. The event will honor actor Alec Baldwin, opera singer Renee Fleming and Tony Award-winning producers Bonnie Comley and Stewart F. Lane.

The gala will feature performers from stage, screen and television, as well as the presentation of the Nedda Harrigan Logan ...

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Young Frankenstein - Original Broadway Cast Recording

Young Frankenstein - Original Broadway Cast Recording

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There exist dumb musicals that we all love. But they are never plain, ordinary dumb. They play with benightedness as with a ball, these smart-enough-to-seem-dumb musicals.

Now, why would something smart want to seem dumb? Because some truly, defiantly smart musicals (think Stephen Sondheim) are in danger at the box office. Not only the ...

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Andrea Martin

Comedically speaking, there's nothing Andrea Martin can't do. Her priceless characterizations on six seasons of the classic sketch comedy series SCTV included a range of brassy and mousy dames, notably TV station manager Edith Prickley, Lorna Minnelli and Perini Scleroso. It would have been easy, after SCTV, for this hugely talented star to carve a niche as a ... Read More...

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Full Cast Announced for Young Frankenstein

Full Cast Announced for Young Frankenstein

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 ...

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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 ... Read More...

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Bart, Mullally, Foster & More Set for Young Frankenstein's Fall Broadway Bow

Bart, Mullally, Foster & More Set for Young Frankenstein's Fall Broadway Bow

The new musical version of Mel Brooks' Young Frankenstein will open at Broadway's Hilton Theatre on November 8, 2007, with previews beginning October 11. The production is set to star Roger Bart as Dr. Frederick Frankenstein, Megan Mullally as Elizabeth, Sutton Foster as Inga, Shuler Hensley as The Monster, Fred Applegate as Kemp and Christopher Fitzgerald as Igor.

Young ...

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Young Frankenstein Sets Dates for Seattle Pre-Broadway Tryout

Young Frankenstein Sets Dates for Seattle Pre-Broadway Tryout

Mel Brooks' musical stage adaptation of Young Frankenstein will have its pre-Broadway tryout in Seattle, running August 4-September 1 at the Paramount Theater, according to Variety. The show is aiming for a Halloween opening night on the Great White Way.

Young Frankenstein will reteam Brooks with many members of the creative team behind his mega-hit The Producers, which closed April ...

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The Producers to Close April 22; Young Frankenstein Next at St. James

The Producers to Close April 22; Young Frankenstein Next at St. James

Bialystock and Bloom are bidding farewell to Broadway. The Producers will play its final performance at the St. James Theatre on Sunday, April 22 after 33 preview and 2,502 regular performances. Mel Brooks' next musical, Young Frankenstein, will be the next tenant at the theater.

"The last six years working on this show have been pure joy for me ...

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