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Young Frankenstein

  1. live musicals
    Of All Possible Musicals, ABC Has Decided to Do Young Frankenstein Live!The musical ran on Broadway from 2007 to 2009.
  2. appreciation
    Young Frankenstein to Play in Over 500 TheatersOnly on October 5.
  3. Mel Brooks and His Wonderful Rejection of SubtletyBack in a time when our primary source of film-watching outside the movie theatre involved a trip to a video store, it was much harder to be a […]
  4. broadwaypocalypse
    Shuttering of ‘Young Frankenstein’ Practically the Greatest Thing That’s Ever HappenedThe ‘Times’ reports that the shuttering of ‘Frankenstein’ is causing ‘unusual guilty glee’ among theater fans.
  5. broadwaypocalypse
    It’s Not Alive! ‘Young Frankenstein’ to Close in January TooMel Brooks’s ‘Young Frankenstein’ will play its final performance on January 4.
  6. kudos
    The Tony Nominations: Who Was Snubbed?And what’s the “most forehead-slapping snub of them all”?
  7. kudos
    Tony Predictions: Song-and-Dance DivisionCan anyone beat Kelli O’Hara or Patti LuPone? No.
  8. kudos
    Can ‘Glory Days’ Still Find Glory at the Tonys?Or is this the best thing ever to happen to ‘Xanadu’?
  9. the take
    Please, Mel Brooks, Skip ‘Blazing Saddles: The Musical’Even with the inevitable kick-line of farting cowboys, how could this be anything but a disappointment?
  10. kudos
    ‘Young Frankenstein’ — Yes, ‘Young Frankenstein’ — Leads Outer Critics Circle NomsAfter a year in which the Outer Critics Circle mostly got things right, the organization has reverted to its usual laughability.
  11. kudos
    Will Everything Come Up Tony for ‘Gypsy’?How the new revival could sweep the awards for revival, lead actress, and supporting actor and actress.
  12. the take
    ‘Young Frankenstein’ Producer Is Sorry About Those $450 Tickets, But Not So Sorry As to Charge Less“Mel fought me tooth and nail,” insists Robert F.X. Sillerman.
  13. the early word
    ‘Young Frankenstein’: You’ll Never Believe What They’re Calling Megan MullallyThe young woman outside the Paramount Theatre says she’s come to the Seattle preview of Young Frankenstein, Mel Brooks’s follow-up to his tremendous hit The Producers, because she’s a “bitch.” “And so is Megan Mullally!” she squeals. “From Will & Grace! She’s a bitch, I’m a bitch. We have a connection!” Ms. Mullally’s superfan is among an older and decidedly more guarded crowd — the middle-aged couple sitting next to us came because they got a deal when they bought tickets to Spamalot.
  14. quote machine
    Mel Brooks Understands Funny on a Deep, Numerical LevelPlus Peter Jackson, Charlie Sheen, and Prince on the Bible.
  15. the industry
    A Match Made in Noir Heaven: Clive Owen, Frank Miller, Raymond Chandler
  16. the industry
    Mel Brooks Assembles Monster Cast for ‘Young Frankenstein’
  17. the industry
    Today in Auteurs: Guillermo del Toro, Alfonso Cuarón, Rob Schneider
  18. the industry
    Nicole Kidman, Actual Millionaire, Will ‘Marry a Millionaire’