Young Frankenstein will play its pre-Broadway engagement at Seattle’s Paramount Theatre August 7th – September 1st and will open on Broadway November 8th 2007 at the Hilton Theatre (213 W 42nd St). Previews there begin October 11th 2007.

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

Young Frankenstein features a book by three-time Tony Award winner Mel 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 creative team and cast of Young Frankenstein have cumulatively garnered a staggering 27 Tony Awards and 54 Tony Award nominations.

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 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?

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 “Putting On the Ritz.”

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 production team includes three Tony Award winning designers 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. 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.

Ticket prices for Young Frankenstein range from $25 - $85, with a limited number of $100 tickets available for most performances (located in the Loge area of the theatre, and include access to The Paramount Club; age 21+). 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 will also be 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.