Complete cast announced for Young Frankenstein

By Amy Somensky Jun 26, 2007, 15:03 GMT

New York: The ensemble has been announced for the upcoming Broadway production of Young Frankenstein. The company will include Heather Ayers, Jim Borstelmann, Paul Castree, Jen Lee Crowl, Jack Doyle, James Gray, Amy Heggins, Eric Jackson, Kristin Marie Johnson, Renee Feder, Matthew LaBanca, Kevin Ligon, Barrett Martin, Linda Mugleston, Christina Marie Norrup, Justin Patterson, Brian Shepard, Sarrah Strimel, Craig Waletzko, and Courtney Young.

The rest of the cast includes Roger Bart as Dr. Frederick Frankenstein, Megan Mullally as Elizabeth, Sutton Foster as Inga, Shuler Hensley as The Monster, Fred Applegate as Kemp, Christopher Fitzgerald as Igor, and Andrea Martin as Frau Blucher.

The production will begin previews at the Hilton Theater on October 11th and officially open on November 8th.

Young Frankenstein features music and lyrics by Mel Brooks and a book by Brooks and Thomas Meehan based on the 1974 film of the same name. The creative team includes choreography by Susan Stroman, costume design by William Ivey Long, set design by Robin Wagner, sound design by Jonathan Deans, and lighting design by Peter Kaczorowski. Stroman directs.

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?