Young Frankenstein Fall 2007!

[Millie315]

Posted: 1/23/07 at 9:00pm

They are holding auditions next week and will do a summer run then head to B'way Fall 2007! I hope Mel Brooks can do it again!

What are your guys feelings about this one?

[FOAnatic]

Posted: 1/23/07 at 9:01pm

Please do a search.

This "news" has been posted MANY times before.

[neddyfrank2]

Posted: 1/23/07 at 9:16pm

October 31 is opening.

[MovieGuy1031]

Posted: 1/23/07 at 9:50pm

This is the first i've heard this news. What is your source?

[JKlock]

Posted: 1/23/07 at 9:53pm

I'm really excited for this. So far the cast looks great and im sure Mel Brooks can "do it again"!!

[ashbash1990]

Posted: 1/23/07 at 9:55pm

I'd Be Upset about another SCreen-to-Stage, but I just love Mel Brooks so much I'm excited... Where is the try out going to be?

Updated On: 1/23/07 at 09:55 PM

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 1/23/07 at 10:42pm

No matter how good it is, doubt the critics will give him those love letters again

Watch out for Brooks & Co to go for the old premium seating again ( yes I know everyone does it now) if it manages another set of raves

Finally saw The Producers movies & enjoyed it. No idea why it got the brickbats as it had most of the score & most of the original cast intact. Although they shortened The King Of Broadway it was still a mistake to remove it

Updated On: 1/23/07 at 10:42 PM

[RentBoy86]

Posted: 1/24/07 at 1:38am

That was the problem Mr Roxy. It was an exact carbon copy of the stage musical. Things that worked on stage just didn't work on screen. The director and the cast didn't adapt to the new medium and Lane's performance came off as forced and fake whereas it worked beautifuly on stage.

[waterfalldancer]

Posted: 1/24/07 at 2:20am

Not that this means much, or could even be counted as sources, but after a performance of "The Apple Tree" there was a talk back. They said Kristen, Marc, and Brian had all workshopped "Young Frankenstien" right before the opening of the show. Also, on Regis and Kelly the other day, Regis mentioned the fact that Mel Brooks was keeping "The Producers" open to hold the lease on the theater so he could open "Frankenstien" by the holiday season.

Again, I don't consider any of this solid evidence, but it is what I have heard.

[munkustrap178]

Posted: 1/24/07 at 2:35am

Well that's true, dancer. It's been reported on here many times before.

[millie_dillmount]

Posted: 1/24/07 at 2:53am

MrRoxy, I also agree with RentBoy. I only saw the Producers tour - I loved it. So when I heard that the movie was coming out, I was really excited to see Nathan and Matt perform together since I heard good things about the pair. Mind you, the guys were talented and funny, but I felt like someone took a good quality camera and taped what I saw onstage. Especially in the "Opening Night" number looked more like it was taped in the St. James rather than a NY street. It was too much of a carbon copy and I didn't get the same emotions that I got when I saw it onstage.

[ashbash1990]

Posted: 1/24/07 at 8:10am

However, there are some people, me included, who cannot always get out to NY or afford tickets to a tour, or there my not even be a tour running, so carbon copy movies allow me to see the show even when I can't actually see the show live... and I loved the new Producers movie...

[FOAnatic]

Posted: 1/24/07 at 9:13am

But carbon copy movies also don't work, and THE PRODUCERS and RENT stand as proof. They don't make these movies for the fans who can't see the show.

It's not a smart investment.

[James885]

Posted: 1/24/07 at 10:00am

While I liked The Producers movie musical, tt was kind of poorly made. I've never seen the show but I've read the libretto from the book by Mel Brooks after I saw the movie. I was amazed at how much dialogue was directly copied from the show.

There were things in the movie that just didn't work on film, like the old ladies tap dance, and Matthew singing "That Face" to the camera. The whole movie came off as being really stagey - the camera would just stay in one place many times, instead of capturing different angles.I was kind of upset that they cut the bar scene in between Springtime for Hitler. I also wish they had done a lot more with "You'll Find Your Happiness In Rio". That could have made a great dance number.

Overall, I just think that they missed a great chance to expand on the show. I think one of the cool things about adapting musicals to screen is that you're not as limited and confined as you would be in theater and this means you can do some things that you can't do on stage.

Updated On: 1/24/07 at 10:00 AM

[frontrowcentre2]

Posted: 1/24/07 at 10:21am

One thing about the movie of THE PRODUCERS (which I thought was a poor movie) was that, it seemed to me , they were going for the "look" of those early 60s big movie musicals where they take a theatrical property, like GYPSY, film it on studio sets but try to make it look like a movie. Well at least they didn't replace Nathan Lane with Rosalind Russell!!

As for FRANKENSTEIN... well, PRODUCERS was a natural to turn into a musical comedy. This is sounding more and more like ROCKY HORROR and no matter what they do, I don't think it will come off nearly as successfully. But what do I know? The truth will out next October.

[Johnnytoc]

Posted: 1/24/07 at 10:29am

I really hope some of the workshop cast carrys over to the production.

[Enjolras77]

Posted: 1/24/07 at 12:00pm

Has there been any more word about where (and when) the show will do its try-out? I know Chicago has been mentioned several times, but I am wondering if anything more concrete has been decided.

I am going to Chicago this summer for the first time and would love to see Young Frankenstein if it does its pre-Broadway run there.

[brainpolice23]

Posted: 1/24/07 at 12:04pm

the best movie musical will be Burton's Sweeney Todd. No question in my mind.

[cooperross]

Posted: 1/24/07 at 12:05pm

'the best movie musical will be Burton's Sweeney Todd. No question in my mind.'

Ugh..I have to disagree..there is no doubt in my mind it will be the worst piece of crap ever.

[Jon]

Posted: 1/24/07 at 1:26pm

Frontrowcentre2 - what do you mean? ROCKY HORROR SHOW was a stage musical before it was a movie.

[worrell4077]

Posted: 1/24/07 at 3:40pm

"Ugh..I have to disagree..there is no doubt in my mind it will be the worst piece of crap ever."

Well, I have to disagree with you,cooperross, I think that Sweeney will be the next big hit movie musical because Tim Burton's directing it and his films are usually dark and quirky and that's Sweeney, dark with some quirky moments, and the cast announced so far are a great group of actors with Depp, Carter, Rickman, and Cohen.

Anywho, getting back to Young Frankenstein, I'm really excited for it. There are only two things I cannot wait for Young Frankenstein on Broadway and The Dark Knight in 2008. YF is by far my favorite Brooks movie and I think it'll work well on stage. I'm hoping that the reading cast does it on Broadway.

It's good to know that there are others on this board who saw and actually liked or loved The Producers movie musical. I for one, really throughly enjoyed it because it was what I thought it would eventually turn out to be, a mix of the original(there were little bits of the original film) and the stage show. It's just too bad they didn't keep in the little old ladies and Max in the park scenes, like him yelling into the one's hearing horn.

[Yankeefan007]

Posted: 1/24/07 at 5:49pm

YF, from what I've heard (from many sources), is far stronger than Producers was in it's early stages.

[EltonJ]

Posted: 1/25/07 at 2:51pm

DOESN'T ANYBODY HAVE ANY NEW IDEAS?!?!!? Why mot make all of Mel Brooks' crappy films into broadway musicals?

Posted: 1/25/07 at 2:57pm

Gosh Elton, your musicals have all been adapted from VERY old ideas, two of them directly from films. Perhaps YOU could come up with a new idea.

[ashbash1990]

Posted: 2/3/07 at 5:08pm

Anyone know where the pre-broadway try-out is going to be?