Young Frankenstein (Musical) came together in 2007, with Mel Brooks and Thomas Meehan adapting Brooks's own 1974 film for the stage. The show follows Dr. Frederick Frankenstein, a neurosurgeon who inherits his grandfather's Transylvanian castle and gets tangled up with the locals.
The original Broadway cast included Roger Bart as Frederick, Megan Mullally as his love interest Elizabeth, and Christopher Fitzgerald as the hunchbacked assistant Igor. Sutton Foster played Inga, a former trapeze artist, while Andrea Martin took on the role of the unsettling housekeeper Frau Blücher.
Brooks wrote the music and lyrics, which included numbers like 'The Happiest Town' alongside songs such as 'Transylvania Mania' and 'Puttin' on the Ritz.' The show ran on Broadway for about a year before closing in 2009.
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