Young Frankenstein
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Young Frankenstein is a musical with a book by Mel Brooks and Thomas Meehan, and music and lyrics by Brooks. It is based on the 1974 comedy film of the same name written by Gene Wilder and Brooks who also directed and has described it as his best film.
- Opened
- 2007
- Performances
- 485
- Type
- Musical
- Era
- Modern
Productions2 on Broadway
| 2007 | Hilton Theatre Original. November 8, 2007 | 485 performances |
| 2017 | Garrick Theatre Transfer. October 10, 2017 |
Every Broadway staging held in broadway-data, sourced to IBDB. West End runs are not yet held.
Recordings 4 albums held
Licensing 1 entry
| US | Music Theatre International Young Frankenstein matched on title alone: a lead, not a confirmed licensor |
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21 passages naming Young Frankenstein, found by keyword across 178 books. It's where this show turns up in the literature, not curated trivia about it.
She is also known for her work on film, including her rendition of “Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life” (from Victor Herbert’s Naughty Marietta) in Young Frankenstein (1974). book:historical-dictionary-of-the-broadway-musical-volume-22-william-a-everett-paul-r#p210
Within months of the Broadway closing of The Producers, for example, Mel Brooks was ready with his next movical, Young Frankenstein (2007); and within months of Beauty and the Beast's closing, Disney opened The Little Jvlermaid (2007). book:showtime-a-history-of-the-broadway-musical-theatre-larry-stempel#p721
Beyond musical theater, Tunick composed, orchestrated, or arranged music for more than three-dozen movies, including Blazing Saddles (1974), Young Frankenstein (1974), and Fort Apache: The Bronx (1981). book:the-stephen-sondheim-encyclopedia-rick-pender-rowman-littlefield-publishing-lanh#p878
This year’s highlights included songs from 9 to 5, The Wild Party, High Fidelity, Rent, Young Frankenstein, Mamma Mia, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Rent, Wicked, and Miss Saigon, along with Sherrie Sheppard's rousing rendition of “Proud Mary.” book:theatre-world-2009-2010-season-v-66-willis#p204
Meehan, Thomas Annie Hairspray Producers, The Young Frankenstein book:broadway-musicals-show-by-show-seventh-edition-stanley-green-cary-ginell#p378
note that for Mel Brooks’s 2007 musical Young Frankenstein the peasants were named Sasha, Masha, Tasha, and Basha) book:the-complete-book-of-1930s-broadway-musicals-dietz-dan-rowman-littlefield-publis#p58
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