# The . . . horror \[Young Frankenstein Musical\]
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-horror-young-frankenstein-musical/411462
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [July 12, 2007, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-horror-young-frankenstein-musical/411462 "2007-07-12T04:20:27Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)
#### Post date: [July 12, 2007, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-horror-young-frankenstein-musical/411462/1 "2007-07-12T04:20:27Z")
Is it the end times yet? If it’s not, you’ll have a hard time proving it to me. [This](http://www.youngfrankensteinthemusical.com/) is the only cite I need that the Beast is loose and the end is near.
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### Author:  [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)
#### Post date: [July 12, 2007, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-horror-young-frankenstein-musical/411462/2 "2007-07-12T04:22:46Z")
No. Blazing Saddles: the Musical would have been apocalyptic. This is so obvious that even Jessica Simpson could have seen it coming.
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### Author:  [@Malodorous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malodorous)
#### Post date: [July 12, 2007, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-horror-young-frankenstein-musical/411462/3 "2007-07-12T04:25:18Z")
[QUOTE=lissener]
Is it the end times yet? If it’s not, you’ll have a hard time proving it to me. [This](http://www.youngfrankensteinthemusical.com/) is the only cite I need that the Beast is loose and the end is near.
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Seems to have worked out all right for Monty Python and the Holy Grail and The Producers (or did that start as a musical, then a movie, then a musical again, or was it the other way around? I lost track).
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### Author:  [@pesch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pesch)
#### Post date: [July 12, 2007, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-horror-young-frankenstein-musical/411462/4 "2007-07-12T04:25:19Z")
I love it! Andrea Martin **is** Frau Blucher _ **whinnies** _
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### Author:  [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)
#### Post date: [July 12, 2007, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-horror-young-frankenstein-musical/411462/5 "2007-07-12T04:25:36Z")
Well, before a mod comes along and mildly castigates you for picking a poor thread title, I can just say a glance at the title of the link doesn’t particularly faze me. A musical version of another Mel Brooks movie, _The Producers_, has been highly successful, and _Young Frankenstein_ already had a musical number in it (Wilder’s and Boyle’s rendition of _Puttin’ on the Ritz_), so what are you, some kind of hothouse flower getting the vapours or something? This is nothing.
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### Author:  [@Malodorous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malodorous)
#### Post date: [July 12, 2007, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-horror-young-frankenstein-musical/411462/6 "2007-07-12T04:27:35Z")
[QUOTE=Bryan Ekers]
Well, before a mod comes along and mildly castigates you for picking a poor thread title,
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I know, I was hoping for “Apocalypse Now, a Night of Musical Magic”. Ah well…
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### Author:  [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)
#### Post date: [July 12, 2007, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-horror-young-frankenstein-musical/411462/7 "2007-07-12T04:28:14Z")
I’d heard about this a few months ago and commented **Blazing Saddles** will be next. Mel Brooks certainly has the right to do anything he wants to his own properties - I shudder to think, however, that this means he might try to stage a musical version of **Space Balls** … :eek:
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### Author:  [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)
#### Post date: [July 12, 2007, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-horror-young-frankenstein-musical/411462/8 "2007-07-12T04:49:32Z")
_MMMP’N NNH NH RIHHHMMMPH!!1!_
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### Author:  [@SkipMagic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SkipMagic)
#### Post date: [July 12, 2007, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-horror-young-frankenstein-musical/411462/9 "2007-07-12T05:17:42Z")
Yeah, let’s please make the thread titles more descriptive so that people don’t have to guess before clicking into the thread. Sure, sure, it’s not a horrible fate, but we do try to accomodate.
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### Author:  [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)
#### Post date: [July 12, 2007, 7:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-horror-young-frankenstein-musical/411462/10 "2007-07-12T07:34:11Z")
I’d give it a shot, since Mel Brooks did his own adapting and wrote the music and lyrics. Or should I say, since I’m not much of a theater-goer, I’ll see the inevitable motion picture adaptation. I saw the original 1968 Producers movie then the motion picture of the musical and thought the musical version was rather good. Athough Matthew Broderick is no Gene Wilder. I have similar hopes for the Young Frankenstein musical.
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### Author:  [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)
#### Post date: [July 12, 2007, 11:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-horror-young-frankenstein-musical/411462/11 "2007-07-12T11:04:54Z")
[QUOTE=cochrane]
Although Matthew Broderick is no Gene Wilder.
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And you think Nathan Lane was able to hold a candle to Zero Mostel? :shakes head in disagreement:
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### Author:  [@singular1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/singular1)
#### Post date: [July 12, 2007, 11:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-horror-young-frankenstein-musical/411462/12 "2007-07-12T11:51:00Z")
Roger Bart as Frankenstein? Oh, I am so there!
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### Author:  [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)
#### Post date: [July 12, 2007, 11:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-horror-young-frankenstein-musical/411462/13 "2007-07-12T11:57:26Z")
[QUOTE=singular1]
Roger Bart as Frankenstein? Oh, I am so there!
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That’s Fronk-on-steen!
I have no idea who Roger Bart is, but Andrea Martin & Megan Mullahy are excellent for
their roles! I didn’t recognize the name of the actor who plays the Monster until I saw
his credit for VAN HELSING- he was the Monster, and one of the view redeeming
performances in that thing!
So, when’s the movie?
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### Author:  [@chrissysissystar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chrissysissystar)
#### Post date: [July 12, 2007, 12:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-horror-young-frankenstein-musical/411462/14 "2007-07-12T12:29:31Z")
Shuler Hensley is perfect - as **Friar Ted** pointed out, he played the Monster in _Van Helsing_ but he also has a pretty extensive [Broadway resume](http://www.shulerhensley.com/). If any of you have seen the Australian production of \*Oklahoma \* that was here a few years ago, Hensley played Jud.
I love _Young Frankenstein_ and can’t help thinking this is going to be as good as _The Producers_. Too bad the ticket prices in New York are going to be so outrageous I’d have to sell a kidney to be able to afford one.
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### Author:  [@It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/It_s_Not_Rocket_Surgery)
#### Post date: [July 12, 2007, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-horror-young-frankenstein-musical/411462/15 "2007-07-12T14:56:07Z")
Look at the bright side. It can’t possibly be as bad (or as big a flop) as [Carrie: The Musical](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrie_-_The_Musical).
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### Author:  [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)
#### Post date: [July 12, 2007, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-horror-young-frankenstein-musical/411462/16 "2007-07-12T16:17:34Z")
[QUOTE=FriarTed]
I have no idea who Roger Bart is…
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Roger Bart played the character Carmen Ghia (Roger DeBris’ assssssssistant) in the Producers on Broadway and in the movie of the musical. He also took over for Matthew Broderick when he left the show. Never saw the movie but I did catch the Broadway show with the original cast. He was excellent. For those who watch Desparate Housewives (I don’t) he played an evil dentist or something who was a boyfriend of one of the ladies. I was flipping by, said “Hey that’s Roger Bart” and moved on. He has a lot of TV and movie credits but I think he does mostly Broadway.
I don’t know what lissener is going on about. The Producers was excellent on Broadway (heard it didn’t translate well on film, I’ll get around to seeing it someday). No reason to think this doesn’t have at least a decent chance of being good. The cast is perfect.
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### Author:  [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)
#### Post date: [July 12, 2007, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-horror-young-frankenstein-musical/411462/17 "2007-07-12T16:33:47Z")
I’m assuming the theatrical version of _The Producers_ was one of those “had to be there” events, because the movie was horrible–and not “a horrible adaptation” but “a horrible musical”: the songs were largely atrocious (“Springtime” being the best of the lot) and the comedy remarkably unfunny. There must have been some truly magical alchemy seeing it live because I couldn’t even imagine it making a good show after seeing the film.
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### Author:  [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)
#### Post date: [July 12, 2007, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-horror-young-frankenstein-musical/411462/18 "2007-07-12T16:39:52Z")
[QUOTE=ArchiveGuy]
I’m assuming the theatrical version of _The Producers_ was one of those “had to be there” events, because the movie was horrible–and not “a horrible adaptation” but “a horrible musical”: the songs were largely atrocious (“Springtime” being the best of the lot) and the comedy remarkably unfunny. There must have been some truly magical alchemy seeing it live because I couldn’t even imagine it making a good show after seeing the film.
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It was fantastic. Nathan Lane is good on film. On stage he is incredible. I saw it during the return engagement of the original cast. Even after so many shows you could tell how much they enjoyed being on stage together. Even my wife, who hated the original movie, loved the play. It was the best Broadway experience I have had.
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### Author:  [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)
#### Post date: [July 12, 2007, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-horror-young-frankenstein-musical/411462/19 "2007-07-12T16:42:53Z")
I’d rather see Young Frankenstein on Broadway than Xanadu, Legally Blonde and a lot of other junk. I’m not expecting it to be amazing or anything, but I’m sure I’ll see it.
The musical version of The Producers was a good show and it was fun. It made for a bad movie, and the original movie is by far the best Producers option in any case, but I do trust Brooks’ ability to make YF work on stage.
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### Author:  [@Baldwin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baldwin)
#### Post date: [July 12, 2007, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-horror-young-frankenstein-musical/411462/20 "2007-07-12T16:43:08Z")
I hope there’s a number called “An Enormous Schwanstucker!”
(As you’ll recall, in _Young Frankenstein_ we learn that Transylvania and Bavaria are the same place.)
Now what would _really_ be horrible would be if Disney made a musical version of _The Hunchback of Notre Dame_ with a happy ending. Yikes!
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