Roger Bart and Shuler Hensley Hit the Road in Young Frankenstein Tour
Tony Award winners Roger Bart and Shuler Hensley will reprise their original roles as Dr. Frankenstein and The Monster in the first national tour of Mel Brooks’ Young Frankenstein. Directed by Tony winner Susan Stroman with a book by Tony winners Mel Brooks and Thomas Meehan and music by Brooks, the show will begin its trek at the Providence Performing Arts Center in Rhode Island on September 29.
Bart and Hensley will be joined by Cory English (as Igor) Tony Award nominee Brad Oscar (Inspector Kemp/Blind Hermit), Beth Curry (Elizabeth), Joanna Glushak (Frau Blucher) and Anne Horak (Inga). The company will also include Preston Truman Boyd, Stephen Carrasco, Jennifer Lee Crowl, James Gray, Shauna Hoskin, Matthew Brandon Hutchens, Kristin Marie Johnson, Sara Lin Johnson, Melina Kalomas, Amanda Kloots-Larsen, Brittany Marcin, Christopher Ryan, Lara Seibert, Geo Serry, Jennifer Smith, Matthew Vargo and Eric Walck.
Following its Rhode Island debut, the tour will continue on to Hartford, CT (October 6-11); Cleveland, OH (October 13-25); Columbus, OH (October 27-November 1); Chicago, IL (November 3-December 13); Washington, D.C. (December 15-January 10, 2010); and Baltimore, MD (January 12-24, 2010).
Bart won a Tony Award in 1999 for playing Snoopy in You’re a Good Man Charlie Brown. Other Broadway credits include The Producers, The Frogs, Triumph of Love and Big River. Film credits include American Gangster, Harold & Kumar 2, The Producers, The Stepford Wives, Hostel: Part II, The Insider and Disney’s Hercules as the singing voice of Hercules.
