'Frankenstein' Am Ex Tickets On Sale 7/11; Public Tix 7/28

Tickets for The New Mel Brooks Musical Young Frankenstein at the Hilton Theatre on Broadway will go on sale to the general public on Saturday, July 28th, following an exclusive American Express cardholder pre-sale beginning Wednesday, July 11th. Tickets will be available at Ticketmaster.com or at (212) 307-4100. The Hilton Theatre box office will open September 10th.

Robert F.X. Sillerman and Mel Brooks present The New Mel Brooks Musical Young Frankenstein, a new musical comedy from the creative team of the 12-time Tony Award winning smash The Producers, opening on Broadway November 8th 2007 at the Hilton Theatre (213 W 42nd St).  Previews begin October 11th 2007. 

During previews, Young Frankenstein will play Monday – Saturday evenings at 8pm, and Saturdays at 2pm. Beginning November 13th, Young Frankenstein will play Tuesday evenings at 7pm and Wednesday – Saturday evenings at 8pm, with matinee performances on Wednesday and Saturday at 2pm and Sunday at 3pm. (Exceptions: There will be Wednesday matinees on October 31st and November 7th at 2pm, and no performances on Friday, November 2nd and 9th).  
 
Tickets range from $121.50 to $51.50 (including a $1.50 facility fee). Premium seats are available at all performances. 

$25 orchestra seats will be available at most performances. Details regarding these day-of-show only tickets will be announced shortly. 

The production stars Roger Bart (Dr. Frederick Frankenstein), Megan Mullally (Elizabeth), Sutton Foster (Inga), Shuler Hensley (The Monster), Andrea Martin (Frau Blucher), Fred Applegate (Kemp) and Christopher Fitzgerald (Igor).

Young Frankenstein, based on Brooks' 1974 film, features a book by three-time Tony Award-winner Brooks and three-time Tony Award-winner Thomas Meehan and music and lyrics by Brooks. Young Frankenstein is directed and choreographed by five-time Tony Award-winner Susan Stroman.   Musical supervision is by Glen Kelly. The Young Frankenstein cast boasts four Tony Award-winners in Bart, Foster, Hensley and Martin.  Cumulatively, the production's creative team and cast have garnered  27 Tony Awards and 54 Tony Award nominations.  Young Frankenstein will play its pre-Broadway engagement at Seattle's Paramount Theatre August 7th - September 1st.  Tickets for Broadway will go on sale Sunday, July 15th.  

"Based on the Oscar-nominated smash hit 1974 film, Young Frankenstein is the wickedly inspired re-imagining of the Mary Shelley classic from the comic genius of Mel Brooks.  When Frederick Frankenstein, an esteemed New York brain surgeon and professor, inherits a castle and laboratory in Transylvania from his grandfather, deranged genius Victor Von Frankenstein, he faces a dilemma.  Does he continue to run from his family's tortured past or does he stay in Transylvania to carry on his grandfather's mad experiments reanimating the dead  and, in the process,  fall in love with his sexy lab assistant Inga?," state press notes.  "Unfolding in the forbidding Castle Frankenstein and the foggy moors of Transylvania Heights, the show's raucous score includes 'The Transylvania Mania,' 'He Vas My Boyfriend' and the unforgettable treatment of Irving Berlin's 'Puttin' On the Ritz.'"

The production team includes three Tony Award winning designers of The Producers: three-time Tony Award winning set designer Robin Wagner, five-time Tony Award winning costume designer William Ivey Long and Tony Award winning lighting designer Peter Kaczorowski.  Jonathan Deans is the sound designer.  Two other Producers alumni complete the music department: Tony-award winning orchestrator Doug Besterman and musical director Patrick Brady.

Visit www.youngfrankensteinthemusical.com for more information.