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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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.

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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.

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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 ...

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 ...