Venue:
Hilton Theater in New York
Address: 214 West 42nd Street
Length: 2 hours and 45 mins with 1 intermission
Opened: November 8, 2007
Category: Musical
When Frederick
Frankenstein (that's Fronkensteen), 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? Together with Inga and
his oddly shaped yet endearing helper Igor
(that's Eye-gor), the good doctor succeeds in creating
a monster—but not without scary and often hilarious
consequences.
Based on Mel Brooks' hit 1974 film, Young Frankenstein
unfolds 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 "Putting On the Ritz."