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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
Music: Mel BrooksLyrics: Mel BrooksBook: Mel Brooks & Thomas Meehan, based on the story & screenplay by Gene Wilder & Mel Brooks

Productions3 on Broadway

2006 Transfer Theatre not recorded. · predates this show
2007 Hilton Theatre Original. November 8, 2007 485 performances
2018 Transfer Theatre not recorded. August 17, 2018

Every Broadway staging held in broadway-data, sourced to IBDB. 1 of these predate the show itself and are almost certainly a different work of the same name. Shown, marked, not merged. West End runs are not yet held.

Licensing 1 entry

US Music Theatre International Young Frankenstein matched on title alone — a lead, not a confirmed licensor

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In the literature21 passages

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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