Young Frankenstein tour comes to Toronto

... perhaps Totonto is used to more sophisticated fare like their unpteenth Mamma Mia tour or their held-over Wicked spooge-fest?

Huh? What are you talking about. Mamma Mia was here once and closed 6 years ago. Wicked was here twice for 2 months each time. Those shows were at least entertaining.

I'm talking about a tour of a show that was a hit on Broadway but is amateurishly bad.

I kept hearing how funny the show was so I went prepared to laugh a lot. Like at The Producers. Not this time. Nothing clever about it at all.

I can empathize with you, AJ. YF isn't nearly the paragon of sophisticated theatre like those hit Toronto-born musicals such as...oh, wait.

Even though you're lying, did the fact that it has a "terrible score", "no real laughs", and is the "worst musical you've ever seen" really warrant its own thread, however?

Personally, while the musical certainly didn't eclipse THE PRODUCERS in any way, shape, or form, I still found YF to be a delightfully quaint creation. Honestly- what appeals to your sense of humor? What genre of musical score were you hoping for?

I've yet to see any worthwhile theatre beyond PHANTOM, LES MIZ, or MISS VIETNAM last longer than a year in Toronto. Oh, those silly Canadians...what with their bags of milk and questionable taste in fine art.

By the way, AJ, while YF's Hilton is indeed the heftiest theatre "on the street" with 1,821 seats, it can't hold a candle to the 3,759-seater in Port Authority.

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Jersey Boys has been playing Toronto since August of 2008. Crazy for You ran for two years here. Show Boat played 18 months here. Even so Young Frankenstein is only booked for 5 weeks at the Princess of Wales.

I thought Avenue Q was a riot when it played here. The current hit My Mother's Lesbian Jewish Wiccan Wedding is also very funny, and has been extended three times so far. I laughed a lot at The Producers both in Toronto and New York. Evil Dead was funny and it played here for over a year. The original Drowsy Chaperone another show created in Toronto has had 3 successful runs in the area.

I didn't like the CD of of Young Frankenstein even before I saw the show. It mostly seemed like left over songs from The Producers. The music should have been darker and more sinister. There wasn't any reason for it to be all musical comedy numbers.

I started a new thread because the show just opened here and with the search feature not working properly I found lots of threads but can't open any of them.

I'm talking about a tour of a show that was a hit on Broadway but is amateurishly bad.

The show wasn't a hit on Broadway. The reviews were not good and the show failed to recoup it's initial investment.

Oh, gimme a break, AJ. If only financially successful shows went on tour (or, more specifically, waited to recoup before they did), there'd be about a whopping 2 new tours in any given season sent out. Investment as a paragon of success in this case is senseless. Really, why should that be the gold standard here? How many Sondheim or Jason Robert Brown shows didn't make money? Exactly. Regardless of how much money YF didn't make on Broadway (incidentally, it was a hair away from totally recouping), there would still be a tour planned. Frankly, there's been enough interest in this show based on its property name to warrant a production for the road (where it's selling fairly well). You didn't care for it, AJ...we get it. Your rather harsh and dismissive reaction to it still baffles me, but, then again, plenty of other things that people raved about simply weren't my cup of tea, either. But, honestly- no laughs?! "Please Don't Touch Me" STILL makes me chuckle even after hundreds of listenings.

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