Victoria Theatre Association presents the first production of the 2011 - 2012 Miami Valley & Good Samaritan Hospitals Broadway Series - The New Mel Brooks Musical YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN tonight through October 9 at the Benjamin & Marian Schuster Performing Arts Center, in downtown Dayton.
The classic Mel Brooks movie is ALIVE and making an appearance in Dayton! A wickedly inspired re-imagining of the Frankenstein legend, YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN, the new Mel Brooks musical, follows bright young Dr. Frankenstein (that's Fronkensteen) as he attempts to create a monster -- but not without scary and hilarious complications. The brains behind the laughter is mad genius and three-time Tony® winner Mel Brooks himself -- who wrote the music and lyrics and co-wrote the book along with his record-breaking, award-winning team from The Producers.
Please note: Mel Brooks' YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN includes adult situations and language, parents use caution when purchasing tickets.
Tickets start at just $38! To purchase tickets, visit the Ticket Center Stage box office located in the Wintergarden of the Schuster Center; order by phone at 937.228.3630 or 888.228.3630; or online at www.ticketcenterstage.com.
About Young Frankenstein
The New Mel Brooks Musical YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN, a new musical comedy from the creative team of the 12-time Tony Award winning smash The Producers, opened on Broadway November 8th 2007 at the Hilton Theatre and began the national tour September, 2009.
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. YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN is directed and choreographed by five-time Tony Award winner Susan Stroman. Musical supervision is by Glen Kelly.
YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN was named Best Broadway Musical 2008 by the Outer Critics Circle Award and won 5 Broadway.com Audience Awards, including Favorite New Broadway Musical.
Clive Barnes of the New York Post called YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN, "the Broadway musical at its dizziest, glitziest and funniest" while Pat Collins of MY 9 News declared YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN "a monster hit." Jeffrey Lyons of WNBC TV said "this riotously funny musical will knock you clear across 42nd Street" and Roger Friedman of Fox News called it simply, "utter genius."
YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN played its pre-Broadway engagement at Seattle's Paramount Theatre August 7th - September 1st,2007.
Based on the Oscar-nominated smash hit 1974 film, YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN is the wickedly inspired re-imagining of the Mary Shelley classic from the comic genius of Mel Brooks. 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 the unforgettable treatment of Irving Berlin's "Puttin' On the Ritz."
Released in 1974 to unanimous critical acclaim, the film received two Academy Award nominations, including one for Mel Brooks and Gene Wilder's script, also nominated for a Writer's Guild of America Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN was also the recipient of the two highest honors accorded films of science fiction: winning The Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation and The Nebula Award, given by The Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America, for Best Dramatic Writing. Since its release, the film has become part of the national consciousness: in 2000, it was selected as #13 on AFI's 100 Funniest American Movies of All Time and in 2003, YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN was chosen for preservation in the Library of Congress National Film Registry.
The production team includes three Tony Award winning designers of The Producers: three-time Tony Award winning set designer Robin Wagner, five-time Tony Award winning costume designer William Ivey Long and Tony Award winning lighting designer Peter Kaczorowski. Jonathan Deans is the sound designer. Two other Producers alumni complete the music department: Tony-award winning orchestrator Doug Besterman and musical director Patrick Brady.
For further information, visit YoungFrankensteinTheMusical.com.
The 2011-2012 Miami Valley & Good Samaritan Hospitals Broadway Series presentation of The New Mel Brooks Musical YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN receives support from Leadership Sponsors Time Warner Cable, Dayton Business Journal and Projects Unlimited, Inc. Additional support is provided from Performance Sponsors: News Talk Radio WHIO AM 1290 and 95.7 FM and K 99.1 FM, Robbins & Myers, and Grunder Landscaping.
