Goodbye Young Frankenstein

I want to start a goodbye thread for Young Frankenstein. It was a show I was not that excited to see but from the minute the band started playing I was hooked and could not wait to go see it again. I loved this show I saw it countless times and it never got old. In my own opinion it should be on broadway a lot longer that only a little over a year.

Updated On: 1/2/09 at 11:33 PM

I can see how people got annoyed with the ticket prices but I also know that Mel Brooks really gave people back every penny they spent. I did not stop laughing once I thought it was the best musical of 2008.

I really had fun at this show and often listen to the OBCR. I'm sorry that it was doomed from the start.

Certainly not a terrible show, and the set was incredible.

However, not as good as The Producers, and lacking in star power. Which were the show's two biggest problems: it was inevitably going to be compared to The Producers, and there were no stars here to push the mediocre material over the top.

Megan was great :)

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sutton was great too!!! :)
never got to see megan.. she was on vacation when I went, everyone else was original though, and I must say, they were EXCELLENT! even Megan's understudy was awesome!!!!
Love "Roll in ze Hay!!"

This was actually my favorite show on Broadway. I thought every aspect of the show was fantastic. It's too bad the egos and prices turned so many people off. The producers will learn.

I saw the show about a week after opening and I thought it was cute and entertaining but nothing to write home about. I never had a desire to see it again until this past July when I brought my niece to NY. She wanted to see it so we got a couple of tickets at TKTS and ended up sitting in the last row of the mezzanine. It turned out that this was a great place to see the show. (My first seat - in the orchestra - was far too close). My niece and I laughed our fool heads off. It was great! I just hadn't anticipated the show improving that much since the opening. It's a shame that people allowed their distaste for the producer to affect their opinions of the show.

(For what it's worth, Megan was my least favorite performer in the show. She was in it both times and all I saw was her playing Karen again - with a poorly executed upper crust accent added. Is she unable to play any other character anymore?)

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I'm really going to miss it too. This might sound really weird, but in a way, this show has kind of helped me with my first semester away at college in NY, about 3,000 miles away from home, just because I knew every weekend I could try the lotto and see my favorite show. If that makes any sense at all.

Updated On: 1/3/09 at 01:11 PM

i am so sad that this show is closing. i will be able to say me real goodbye tomorrow at the closing night performance. It was one of those shows that always could make you laugh. Btw does anyone think that maybe some of the original cast members will come back (chris fitzgerald, andrea martin, megan mullally). it would be cool if they all showed up like nikki snelson showed up for lbbs last show

Throughly enjoyed it. It was too bad Brook's ego got in the way. If this had been his first show or had been done by someone else, I think the results may have been much different.

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I did not get to see the last Young Frankenstein show. Did anyone attend if so how was it?

Mamie:

That is one of the cutest babies I've ever seen...

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