Posts Tagged ‘Mel Brooks’

YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN

Though production values and technical aspects fall far short of professional theater standards, there’s a good deal to entertain audiences in Whittier Community Theatre’s production of Young Frankenstein thanks to Mel Brooks’ laugh-filled, double entendre-packed book, the comedy master’s tuneful, clever songs, and an enthusiastic young cast.
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THE PRODUCERS

Leave it to Celebration Theatre to take a musical as mammoth as The Producers and scale it down to fit the LGBTQ company’s 47-seat Hollywood digs without losing an iota of its audience appeal. Indeed, the show still officially billed as “A New Mel Brooks Musical” may be even more exciting at Celebration in 2019 than when it made its 2001 Broadway debut.
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YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN

Inspired casting choices and Broadway-caliber production values make the latest from 3-D Theatricals the all-around best of the six Young Frankenstein’s I’ve seen in the seven years since its National Tour arrived first brought Transylvania to L.A.
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YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN

Palos Verdes Performing Arts opens its 2016-17 season with its splendid big-stage production of Mel Brooks’ Young Frankenstein, a tunefuly, double entendre-packed, laugh-filled treat for Brooks fans and classic horror buffs alike.
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THE PRODUCERS

Candlelight Pavilion Dinner Pavilion undertakes one of its biggest and most ambitious musicals to date, Mel Brooks’ multiple Tony-winning The Producers, and the result is another Candlelight crowd-pleaser filled with laughter, music, and dancing galore.
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YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN

Simi Valley Cultural Arts Center proves that you don’t need a Broadway budget to give audiences their money’s worth, not with a show as crowd-pleasing as Mel Brooks’ Young Frankenstein (one of the few musicals you can feel safe in inviting even your most Broadway-musical-phobic friends to for a monstrous good time), and not with performers as multi-talented as this production’s seven leads.

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THE PRODUCERS


A stupendous cast and a topnotch directorial/choreographic team recreating the Tony-winning work of Broadway superstar Susan Stroman have come up with an all-around splendid revival of the megasmash hit musical The Producers, once again providing proof positive that a 3-D Theatricals production is the next-best-thing to Broadway—and a heck of a lot more convenient.
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YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN


Musical Theatre West opens its 61st consecutive season with a sensational remounting of Mel Brooks’ Young Frankenstein, one of the few musicals you can feel safe in inviting even your most Broadway-musical-phobic friends to for a monstrous good time.
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