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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. With music and lyrics by three-time Tony Award winner Mel Brooks and book by Brooks and three-time Tony Award winner Thomas Meehan, Young Frankenstein is directed and choreographed by five-time Tony Award winner Susan Stroman.

Young Frankenstein will play its pre-Broadway engagement at Seattle’s Paramount Theatre August 7th – September 1st.

Tickets are available by calling 206-292-ARTS (2787), at any Ticketmaster location (including Fred Meyer stores), or on-line at theparamount.com. Tickets are also available at The Paramount Theatre Box Office (Monday through Friday, 10am to 6pm), or BroadwayAcrossAmerica.com/Seattle.

“Seattle is a creative capital, a great theater town and a launching pad for new musicals. Our concentration of talented artists and stage technicians makes Seattle a lucrative and profitable stop for Broadway-bound productions. And we have smart, adventurous audiences. We welcome Mel Brooks, the show’s creators and cast to Seattle and The Paramount Theatre – the perfect place to open the new musical ‘Young Frankenstein,’” said Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels.

Based on the 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 van 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?

Released in 1974 to unanimous critical acclaim, the film received two Academy Award nominations, including one for Mel Brooks and Gene Wilder’s script, also nominated for a Writer’s Guild of America Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. Young Frankenstein was also the recipient of the two highest honors accorded films of science fiction: winning The Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation and The Nebula Award, given by The Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America, for Best Dramatic Writing. Since its release, the film has become part of the national consciousness: in 2000, it was selected as #13 on AFI’s 100 Funniest American Movies of All Time and in 2003, Young Frankenstein was chosen for preservation in the Library of Congress National Film Registry.

The Broadway schedule and casting for Young Frankenstein will be announced at a later date.

The design team includes three Tony Award winning veterans of The Producers: three time Tony Award winning set designer Robin Wagner, four time Tony Award winning costume designer William Ivey Long and Tony Award winning lighting designer Peter Kaczorowski.

Ticket prices for Young Frankenstein range from $25 - $100. Tickets are available by calling 206-292-ARTS (2787), and at any Ticketmaster location (including Fred Meyer stores), or on-line at theparamount.com. Tickets are also available at The Paramount Theatre Box Office (Monday through Friday, 10am to 6pm), or BroadwayAcrossAmerica.com. Corporate and Group clients can continue to purchase tickets. A minimum of 20 tickets is required and are available by calling 888. 214.6856.

YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN has been added to the current 2006-2007 Broadway season at The Paramount Theatre. The series is transitioning into a calendar season, and beginning with 2008, the season will follow a calendar year. A season of shows for 2008 will be announced in late 2007.