Word on the street about Young Frankenstin

I won lotto for Young Frankenstine tongight. And the guy who ran it and I were making small talk while the box office was geting ready to give us the tickets.

I had asked him how has the show been going because they aren't reporting thier grosses. He said that most shows are totally sold out. He also said that with the way they are selling they are going to recoup by march.


And on a septerate note. When I was sitting there before the show started, there was a girl who looked to be around ten or so maybe a bit older. But, she turned to her mom and asked her " Who's Mel Brooks?" Needless to say that the guy next to me who heard this as well was having just as much trouble as I was to refrane from cracking up.

We were in agreement that you might not have got around to seeing the movie before seeing the show. But, we were laughing about not knowing who Mel Brooks is.

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Updated On: 1/5/08 at 12:59 AM

Is it funny if a little girl doesn't know who Mel Brooks is?

It isn't word from the street if it is "inside information" from an employee.

omfg you are so funny lol rofl wow i just got a 6pack from laughing so hard

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lol wt ten yar old DOSNT NO MEL BROOKZ

COME ON GET WIT IT PPL. MELZ THA NEW BRITNEY

This may have just been a one-time deal, but at the lottery for the matinee today (yes there was a matinee today) the lotto guy said that everyone who didn't win a chance to buy the front row seats would be offered dress circle tickets at 26.50. I was lucky enough to win the lotto, but I think it's great that they had that offer.

Maybe I'm a little slow but I didn't know who Mel Brooks was until I was at least 14 and that was only because Men in Tights had just come out. I don't know many kids who currently would know who he was.

umm....who is Mel Brooks?

Is it common for most shows to have shows on Tuesday night as well? I always thought it was Wed-Sunday shows.

Generally, only Disney shows do the Wed-Sun sched, because not a lot of parents take their kids on Tuesday nights. More people go to matinees for Lion King and Mary Poppins.

I like that she didn't know who Mel Brooks is. It's mildly humorous to me, because his name is in the title of the show only because of his perceived public persona, which isn't really how the public perceives him at all. And the children are here to keep pointing that out.

The default schedule on Broadway is indeed a Tuesday-Sunday schedule. However, we're seeing a bigger trend in Wednesday-Sunday as of late, I think, but most shows usually switch to such a schedule after a year if they ever do.

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I bet more ten year olds know osama bin laden then they would know Mel Brooks.

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"But, we were laughing about not knowing who Mel Brooks is."

Well, I worked with a young lady who was the star of the show, and she had no idea who Patti LuPone was.

Everything Patti had done and was known for, she did before this person was born.

People aren't born with knowledge, they have to work for it.

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