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To turn the cult movie
Young Frankenstein
into a musical took more
than making Transylvania
sing and dance; it took a
seasoned Broadway dude
like Thomas Meehan.
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An out-and-out
parody like
Young Frankenstein…
tends to run on gags
more than on
emotion… the task is
less to illuminate
character than to
wittily theatricalize
a movie’s signature
riffs—in this case,
classic monster
movies of the 1930s.
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APPLAUSE
d e n v e r c enter. or g
It all began with a dream—or, rather, with a
famous New Yorker humor piece from 1962
titled “Yma Dream.” The writer recounts a
recurring nightmare in which he’s throwing
a cocktail party for Yma Sumac, the
Peruvian singer, who insists that her host
introduce all incoming guests by their first
names only. Harmless enough—until he
gets an earful of the guest list, which
includes Ava Gardner, Abba Eban, Oona
O’Neill, Ugo Betti, Ona Munson, Ida
Lupino, Aga Khan, Eva Gabor, and Uta
Hagen. Before long, our hapless host is left
desperately spouting a tongue-twister of
seeming nonsense: “Yma, Uta; Yma, Ava;
Yma, Oona; Yma, Ona; Yma, Ida; Yma,
Ugo; Yma, Abba…” And so on, until the
Polish pianist Mieczyslaw Horszowski
arrives and the dream mercifully ends.
The story might have ended there, too,
except that one day some years later, the
writer of that piece, a New Yorker staffer
named Thomas Meehan, got a call from
Los Angeles. Anne Bancroft was putting
together a TV special. Would he come out
and adapt “Yma Dream” into a sketch? The
show, Annie: The Women in the Life of a
Man, aired in 1970 taking home a raft of
Emmys, including one for Meehan. Possibly
more significant than the award recognition, though, were a pair of introductions:
one to Bancroft’s husband, Mel Brooks, and
the other to the TV special’s director and
producer, Martin Charnin.
b y R o b W e i n e rt- K e n d t
When Meehan next heard from Charnin
it was about another show called Annie.
Charnin thought the Depression-era comic
strip “Little Orphan Annie” would make a
good musical. Though initially dismissive of
the idea, Meehan ended up contributing the
book for the 1977 blockbuster, and won a
Tony for his efforts.
“There was no story, just characters: the
poorest little girl in the world, the richest
man in the world, and the dog,” recalls Meehan, at 79 still as busy as ever, with three
new musical projects in the works as of this
writing. “I had to invent the story from the
ground up. Dickens being my favorite author, I turned to his novels and tried to make
it very Dickensian.”
The Mel Brooks connection took a few
more years to pay off, but pay off it did,
in spades. First Brooks tapped Meehan to
co-write the films To Be or Not To Be and
Spaceballs. Then, years later, when Brooks
decided to turn some of his classic films
into musicals—first 1968’s The Producers,
then 1974’s Young Frankenstein—he called
Meehan.
e felt he wanted somebody
who’d worked on musicals,”
Meehan avers, though one gets
the sense from talking to this even-tempered
Northeasterner that he also was on hand to
serve as the grown-up in the room, providing a necessary counter-balance to Brooks’
childlike exuberance.
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Original Broadway Cast / Photo: Paul Kolnik
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Making Music
OUT OF MONSTERS
rejoined for a second round of adaptations
in recent years: O’Donnell and Meehan
went back to the John Waters well for
Cry-Baby, while Brooks and Meehan
turned their attention to Brooks’ 1974
horror-movie parody Young Frankenstein.
“I always thought Young Frankenstein
was his best picture,” says Meehan. “The
Producers was kind of a cult film, though
it was also a more natural musical than
Young Frankenstein. The theatrical setting of The Producers opens the door to
music. In a castle in Transylvania, it was
harder to find moments where they could
sing.”
“O
production number, “Puttin’ on the Ritz.”
Notes Meehan: “On Broadway, it felt like
everybody was competing to get the best
reviews. Now I feel like they’re all pals
and they’re doing it for the fun of it.”
als on a lark certainly sounds
consistent with the frothy spirit in
which Brooks’ monster mash was
reanimated—not to mention with the
tradition of whimsy that introduced the
writer of “Yma Dream” to the man who
gave the world the Swedish secretary
Ulla Inge Hansen Benson Yansen Tallen
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Rob Weinert-Kendt is associate editor
at American Theatre, and has written
about theatre and the arts for The New
York Times, The Los Angeles Times,
Variety, The Guardian and The San
Francisco Chronicle.
Original Broadway Cast / Photo: Paul Kolnik
Photo: PHOTOFEST / By Merwin Goldsmith
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In a traditional musical, Meehan notes,
the songs well up out of large feelings.
“The basic idea is, when the emotion
becomes so strong in a scene, so high
that you can’t speak anymore, you’ve got
to burst into song,” Meehan explains.
“You do try to construct every scene in a
musical to have a song, so you’re always
looking for the moment where it sings—
the less dialogue the better. It’s not called
‘musical’ for nothing.”
An out-and-out parody like Young
Frankenstein, though, tends to run on
gags more than on emotion. As with
Spamalot, the task is less to illuminate
character than to wittily theatricalize
a movie’s signature riffs—in this case,
classic monster movies of the 1930s. As
Meehan puts it, “We did a lot of character songs where we’d take lines from the
movie and turn them into songs: ‘Roll in
the Hay’ for Inge and Dr. Frankenstein,
‘He Vas My Boyfriend’ for Frau Blücher.”
Other musical numbers, though, required some creative fleshing out: When
the angry townspeople descend on the
castle at the end of Act I, for instance,
Frederick Frankenstein tries to distract
them with news of a new dance craze
called “Transylvania Mania.” When
Frederick needs some convincing that he
should continue his late father’s experiments with reanimated corpses, his ancestors show up in a dream sequence with
the emphatic command, “Join the Family
Business.”
If Meehan had to compare the Young
Frankenstein writing process to any
previous project, it is to his time working with Brooks on Spaceballs. The
pair watched all the Star Wars and Star
Trek films, and every scene they wrote
parodied one genre trope or another. But
the irony of creating a stage musical, even
one based on a film that’s riffing on other
films, is that it must stand on its own if
it’s going to live outside the lab.
nce we got it on its feet,
it became its own thing,”
Meehan avers. “In a way, the
more we got away from the movie, the
better. Otherwise, audiences could just
buy the DVD.” And though the show’s
2007 Broadway premiere received its
share of mixed reviews, Meehan points
out that Young Frankenstein wowed
audiences in its pre-Broadway Seattle
run, and that it “works really well on the
road. The company’s really together.”
Still with the show are its original mad
scientist and monster, the manic Roger
Bart and the lumbering Shuler Hensley,
who share many of the production’s
high points, including the uproarious tap
young frankenstein
“I’m more the straight man,” Meehan
concedes. “One of the things I can do is,
I can find where the joke should be, but
I’m not always the one to write the joke.”
On the other hand, he points out, Brooks’
irrepressible spirit can be contagious: “If
you’re with Mel, you start to think like
Mel and talk like Mel,” Meehan says. “A
lot of jokes you might think are Mel’s
are actually mine. You can’t always tell
whose jokes are whose—you’re both always talking and shouting and laughing.”
ndeed, Meehan describes working
with Brooks affectionately as “crazy
days. He has incredible energy, and
he’s a great procrastinator. We’d meet to
work and he’d want to goof around and go
get lunch. Things with Mel always took
about twice as long as they should, but we
were laughing all the way.”
After The Producers swept the 2001
Tonys, Meehan was suddenly a hot talent
in his 70s. He was tapped to co-write the
book of the musical of Hairspray with
Mark O’Donnell, nabbing him yet another Tony. Both of these collaborations
went over so well that the same teams
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CAST
(in order of appearance)
Herald................................................................................................... PRESTON TRUMAN BOYD
Ziggy...............................................................................................................STACEY TODD HOLT
Inspector Kemp............................................................................................................ BRAD OSCAR
Medical Students.......................MATTHEW BRANDON HUTCHENS, CHRISTOPHER RYAN
Senior Student....................................................................................................... ERICK R. WALCK
Frederick Frankenstein.................................................................................................ROGER BART
Telegraph Boy...............................................................................................STEPHEN CARRASCO
Elizabeth........................................................................................................................BETH CURRY
Shoeshine Man...............................................................................................STACEY TODD HOLT
Igor.............................................................................................................................CORY ENGLISH
Equines......................................................................... LAWRENCE ALEXANDER, GEO SEERY
Inga.............................................................................................................................. ANNE HORAK
Frau Blucher...................................................................................................... JOANNA GLUSHAK
Victor..................................................................................................................... ERICK R. WALCK
The Monster................................................................................................................... RYE MULLIS
Transylvania Quartet............................... PRESTON TRUMAN BOYD, STEPHEN CARRASCO,
MATTHEW BRANDON HUTCHENS, ERICK R. WALCK
Hermit........................................................................................................................... BRAD OSCAR
Sasha......................................................................................................LAWRENCE ALEXANDER
Masha................................................................................................................MELINA KALOMAS
Basha......................................................................................................................JENNIFER SMITH
Tasha...........................................................................................................................LARA SEIBERT
Bob.................................................................................................................STEPHEN CARRASCO
Ritz Specialty........................................................................................LAWRENCE ALEXANDER
The Count...................................................................................................... CHRISTOPHER RYAN
THE ENSEMBLE
LAWRENCE ALEXANDER, PRESTON TRUMAN BOYD, STEPHEN CARRASCO,
JENNIFER LEE CROWL, MATTHEW BRANDON HUTCHENS,
SARAH LIN JOHNSON, MELINA KALOMAS, KRISTA SAAB,
BRITTANY MARCIN, STACEY TODD HOLT, CHRISTOPHER RYAN, GEO SEERY,
LARA SEIBERT, JENNIFER SMITH, ERICK R. WALCK
UNDERSTUDIES
For Inspector Kemp/Hermit: STACEY TODD HOLT, ERICK R. WALCK;
For Frederick Frankenstein: MATTHEW BRANDON HUTCHENS, CHRISTOPHER RYAN;
For Elizabeth: MELINA KALOMAS, JENNIFER SMITH;
For Igor: JAMES GRAY, STACEY TODD HOLT; For Inga: SARAH LIN JOHNSON,
LARA SEIBERT; For Frau Blucher: MELINA KALOMAS, JENNIFER SMITH;
For The Monster: PRESTON TRUMAN BOYD, ERICK R. WALCK
SWINGS
JAMES GRAY, SHAUNA HOSKIN, KRISTIN MARIE JOHNSON, MATTHEW J. VARGO
DANCE CAPTAINS
JAMES GRAY, KRISTIN MARIE JOHNSON
ORCHESTRA
Conductor: ROBERT Billig
Assistant Conductor/Keyboards: SteveN Landau
Drums/Percussion: Lee Appleman; Keyboards: Edgar William “Trey” Cox, III
Synthesizer Programming: Randy Cohen
ACT ONE
Scene 1: A Village in Transylvania, 1934
“The Happiest Town”.......................................................................................Villagers
Scene 2: Medical School, New York City
“The Brain”......................................................................................Frederick, Students
Scene 3: Hudson River, Pier 57
“Please Don’t Touch Me”........................................................Elizabeth and Voyagers
Scene 4: A Railroad Station in Transylvania
“Together Again”................................................................................... Frederick, Igor
Scene 5: A Hay Wagon
“Roll in The Hay”..........................................................................Inga, Frederick, Igor
Scene 6: Castle Frankenstein
Scene 7: The Grand Hall of Castle Frankenstein
“Join the Family Business”.............................................. Victor, Frederick, Ancestors
Scene 8: The Laboratory
“He Vas My Boyfriend”............................................................................ Frau Blucher
Scene 9: The Town Hall
“The Law”......................................................................................Kemp and Villagers
Scene 10: The Laboratory
“Life, Life”......................................................................................................Frederick
Scene 11: The Courtyard of Castle Frankenstein
“Welcome to Transylvania”.........................................................Transylvania Quartet
“Transylvania Mania”................................ Igor, Frederick, Inga, Kemp and Villagers
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THERE WILL BE A 15-MINUTE INTERMISSION.
Scene 1: The Forest
“He’s Loose”..................................................................................Kemp and Villagers
Scene 2: The Laboratory
“Listen to Your Heart”............................................................................................ Inga
“Surprise”............................................................Elizabeth, Igor, Frau Blucher, Sasha,
Masha, Basha, Tasha and Bob
Scene 3: A Remote Cottage in the Forest
“Please Send Me Someone”................................................................................Hermit
Scene 4: The Dungeon of Castle Frankenstein
“Man About Town”.........................................................................................Frederick
Scene 5: A Theatre in Transylvania
“Puttin’ on the Ritz”
Music and Lyrics by Irving Berlin.................................Frederick, The Monster, Inga,
Igor, Frau Blucher, Ensemble
Scene 6: A Cave in the Forest
“Deep Love”.................................................................................................... Elizabeth
Scene 7: The Laboratory
Scene 8: The Village Square
“Deep Love” (Reprise)...............................................................................The Monster
Finale Ultimo........................................................................................... The Company
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Who’s Who in the cast
ROGER BART (Dr. Frederick
Frankenstein) originated the role
of Dr. Frederick Frankenstein
in the Broadway production of
Young Frankenstein (Outer Critics
Circle and Drama League Award
nominations). Other Broadway
credits include The Producers,
where he originated the role of
Carmen Ghia (Tony and Drama
Desk nominations) and went on to
play Leo Bloom. He was Snoopy
in You’re a Good Man, Charlie
Brown (Tony and Drama Desk
Awards); in The Frogs opposite
Nathan Lane; Triumph of Love;
and Big River. Film credits include
American Gangster and Harold
& Kumar 2, the big-screen adaptation of The Producers, The
Stepford Wives, Hostel: Part II,
The Insider and the Disney animated features Hercules (singing
voice of Hercules) and Lady and
the Tramp II (singing voice of
Scamp). On television, Bart starred
in “Desperate Housewives” as
George, the scheming pharmacist
(SAG Award). Additional credits
include the sci-fi miniseries “The
Lost Room,” “Bram and Alice,”
“Law & Order,” and “30 Rock.”
RYE MULLIS (The Monster)
has been seen in the national tour
of The Scarlet Pimpernel, the
off-Broadway production of The
Awesome 80s Prom and regional
productions of Joseph..., La Cage
aux Folles, South Pacific, Grease
and Once Upon a Mattress. He has
also worked with Amy Tinkham
on Disney’s The Cheetah Girls:
One World Tour, Disney’s Yanni
Voices Tour, and American Dance
(w/ Kenny Ortega). Other credits include: Disney’s Imagination
Movers: Live From the Idea
Warehouse Tour and four seasons
with Ringling Bros. and Barnum
& Bailey: Barnum’s Funundrum,
Over the Top and Bellobration!
Sincere thanks to Susan Stroman
and Mel Brooks, Tara Rubin, and
George Lutsch for letting him join
this amazing company. For his
Mother and his Grandma.
CORY ENGLISH (Igor) most
recently appeared on Broadway as
Igor in Young Frankenstein. After
12 years of living in New York
City and performing in Broadway
shows including Forum, Barnaby in
Hello Dolly with Carol Channing,
Damn Yankees, Guys and Dolls
and Gypsy with Tyne Daly, Cory
moved to London to study acting
at Drama Studio London where
he met his wife, British actress
Eva Alexander. Whilst in the UK,
Cory performed in plays Corpus
Christi at the Edinburgh festival,
Our Father and Comedy of Errors
as both Dromios. British television credits include work for the
BBC and Channel 4. In the West
End, Cory took the role of Mary
Sunshine in Chicago, Benny
Southstreet in Guys and Dolls
with Ewan McGregor and Jane
Krakowski, and starred as Max
Bialystock in The Producers at
Theatre Royal Drury Lane before
touring the same production around
the UK, winning the Evening
Standard’s award in Manchester
for Best Actor in a touring company. www.coreyenglish.com
BRAD OSCAR (Inspector Kemp/
Hermit) Broadway: The Producers
(2001 Tony Nomination),
Spamalot, Jekyll & Hyde, Aspects
of Love. West End: The Producers,
Theater Royal Drury Lane. OffBroadway: Forbidden Broadway,
The Body Beautiful, Encores!
Do Re Mi, directed and performed in Broadway by the Year
1931 and 1968 at Town Hall.
Regional: The First Wives Club
(Old Globe), The Mystery of Irma
Vep, Cabaret and Damn Yankees
(Arena Stage), Barnum (Asolo
Rep/Maltz Jupiter), Moonlight and
Magnolias (Cape Playhouse), Mrs.
Miller Does Her Thing (Vineyard
Playhouse), Santa in the Radio City
Christmas Spectacular in L.A. and
Branson, MO. Film: Ghost Town,
The Producers, Old Days. TV:
three “Law & Orders,” “Reading
Rainbow.” Brad is a native of
Washington, D.C., a graduate of
Boston University’s College of
Fine Arts, and has taught musical
theater technique at Marymount
Manhattan College.
BETH CURRY (Elizabeth)
Mystery of life, at last she found
a group of people as ‘touched’
as she is. ;) Broadway: Legally
Blonde (Brooke, u/s Margot, Pilar,
Steno), Good Vibrations (Rhonda).
Tour: Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (u/s
Jolene), Grease (European/Rizzo).
TV: “All my Children,” “Hope
and Faith,” “A Christmas Carol.”
Backup singer for Brian Setzer.
Received a Billboard award for her
own music. Love to family. For her
mom…who always believed in her.
www.bethcurry.com
JOANNA GLUSHAK (Frau
Blucher) Broadway: Hairspray,
Urinetown, Sweet Smell Of
Success, Les Misérables, Sunday
In The Park With George, After the
Night and the Music, Conversations
With My Father, Rags, etc. NYC
Opera: A Little Night Music, The
Most Happy Fella. National tours:
Xanadu, Evita. Joanna has worked
extensively off-Broadway and
regionally. She is a graduate of the
Yale School of Drama.
ANNE HORAK (Inga) Broadway:
White Christmas (Rita). New York:
Hulde in Music in the Air (City
Center Encores!), Dolly in Babes In
Arms (reading). Other credits: Lone
Star Love (5th Avenue Theatre),
Oklahoma! (Paper Mill Playhouse),
All Shook Up, Thoroughly Modern
Millie, A Chorus Line, Once Upon
a Mattress (all at Music Theatre of
Wichita), 42nd Street, Beauty and
the Beast, Grease, Seven Brides for
Seven Brothers (all at Pittsburgh
CLO), Candide (Bellingham
Festival of Music). BFA-Musical
Theatre, University of Michigan.
Thanks to Tara Rubin, Nicolosi &
Co., and her family.
LAWRENCE ALEXANDER
(Ensemble) After receiving his
BFA from Boston Conservatory,
Lawrence joined Hubbard Street
PRESTON TRUMAN BOYD
(Ensemble) is THRILLED to join
this great company! NY Credits:
Republic (Liam). Regional: Les
Misérables (Grantaire), Oklahoma!
(Slim), The Muny; KC Starlight.
T.V.: “Guiding Light.” Preston is a
2008 grad of CCM. Thanks to God,
the Gage Group, Tara and Merri.
Love to Mom, Dad, Haley and the
Fam! Love to Sydney.
STEPHEN CARRASCO
(Ensemble) Broadway/NY: Irving
Berlin’s White Christmas, Music in
the Air (Encores!) Regional: Paper
Mill Playhouse, Pittsburgh CLO,
Goodspeed Musicals, Atlanta
TOTS, Syracuse Stage, and the
Merry-Go-Round Playhouse.
B.F.A. Syracuse University. Huge
thanks to MSA, my incredible family, and my irreplaceable friends.
Love you guys! Proud member of
AEA. www.stephencarrasco.com
JENNIFER LEE CROWL
(Ensemble) made her Broadway
debut in the original cast of Young
Frankenstein. Other credits: The
Producers 1st National tour (Dance
Captain), Radio City Rockette, A
Chorus Line (Judy), Anything Goes
(Chastity). TV: “Crazy For You”
(PBS Great Performances). Film:
The Producers (Universal). Jen
Lee sends much love to her supportive family.
JAMES GRAY (Ass’t.
Choreographer/Dance Captain/
Swing) Broadway cast Young
Frankenstein (u/s Igor). Broadway,
movie & London cast of The
Producers (u/s, performed Carmen
Ghia with Nathan Lane). Tour/
Regional: 42nd Street, White
Christmas, Radio City Christmas
Spectacular, Jubilee, Lucky Guy.
London: Me and My Girl, Mack
and Mabel, Beauty and the Beast.
For Ellis, Kai and Jimmy Jnr.
Dad (my two biggest fans) and
especially Shane.
STACEY TODD HOLT
(Ensemble) Broadway shows: 7.
National Tours: 3. Off Broadway:
4. Film and TV: The Producers,
“Curb Your Enthusiasm,” PBS
“Great Performances,” numerous national commercials. Host of
QTalk. Certified in Floral Design
from New York Botanical Garden.
BFA from Webster Conservatory.
Proud Actors’ Equity Member.
MELINA KALOMAS (Ensemble)
National tours: Camelot (Nimue),
Les Misérables (Madeleine);
Regional: Mary Zimmerman’s
Arabian Nights (Berkeley Rep,
Kansas City Rep); Zhivago (LaJolla
Playhouse); The Melody Lingers
On (El Portal); La Boheme (Opera
Pacific); Shenandoah (WV Public).
TV: “As The World Turns.” BFACarnegie Mellon University.
SHAUNA HOSKIN (Swing)
Shauna is thrilled to be a part of this
show. Broadway: The Producers;
Regional: Anything Goes, Rough
Crossing (Yale Rep.), Bluebell at
the famous Lido in Paris, France.
Thanks to my amazing parents.
BRITTANY MARCIN (Ensemble)
Broadway: Curtains (original cast).
National/International tours: The
Will Rogers Follies, Dr. Dolittle,
Chicago (Hunyak; Macau, China).
Regional: Curtains (Ahmanson),
West Side Story (NSMT), Anything
Goes (Houston TUTS). Radio City
Rockette (NYC). Sarasota Ballet.
NCSA graduate.
MATTHEW BRANDON
HUTCHENS (Ensemble) is thrilled
to be a part of Young Frankenstein.
National: 1st National tour of Chitty
Chitty Bang Bang (ensemble/
Caracticus Potts u/s), original 2004
world premiere + 2007 Canadian
premiere casts of Irving Berlin’s
White Christmas (Ensemble/Phil
Davis cover). Lots of love to my
beautiful T.A.O. and my incredible
family. MatthewBrandonHutchens.
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KRISTIN MARIE JOHNSON
(Swing/Dance Captain) Broadway:
Young Frankenstein (original cast).
National tour: 42nd St.. Radio City
Rockette (3 yrs NYC). B.A. in
theatre (Florida State University).
Love and thanks to my family and
friends for their support. Thank
you Stro for turning my dreams
into reality.
SARAH LIN JOHNSON
(Ensemble) Broadway: 42nd
Street; NYC: Radio City Rockette,
Tours: Monty Python’s Spamalot
1st National; Hello Dolly! (with
Michele Lee). Regional favorites:
Carnival! (The Kennedy Center
and Papermill Playhouse), Singin’
in the Rain (Goodspeed). College:
Oklahoma City University. Thanks
to Tara Rubin, and Stro for letting
me join the fun. Love to Mom and
CHRISTOPHER RYAN
(Ensemble) is elated to be part of
Young Frankenstein! Favorite productions include: Spamalot (u/s
Lancelot), You’re A Good Man,
C.B. (Snoopy), The 1940’s Radio
Hour (Johnny), Evita, My Fair
Lady, Music Man, Chess. Thanks
to Merri Sugarman, Tara Rubin,
Susan Stroman, my loving family,
friends & Moriah. Proud Actors’
Equity member.
KRISTA SAAB (Ensemble) is
thrilled to join the cast of Young
Frankenstein! Broadway: Pal
Joey. NYC: Radio City Rockette,
Camelot (Lincoln Center, PBS
– “Live from Lincoln Center”).
Tours: 42nd St. (TOTS, TUTS,
Wolf Trap). Regional: Carnival!
(Kennedy Center/DC), A Funny
Thing … Forum (Goodspeed),
Crazy for You (CLOSBC). Film/
TV: American Gangster, The Ellen
Degeneres Show. Love to Ryan.
GEO SEERY (Ensemble) is
honored and thrilled to be a part
of the Young Frankenstein family! Broadway: Gypsy (starring
Patti LuPone). Tours: 42nd Street
(TOTS/ TUTS/ Wolf Trap).
Regional: 42nd Street, …Forum,
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Dance Chicago. NY credits: Show
Boat (Carnegie Hall), On The Town
(City Center) Regional: David
Marques’ Ticket to Ride (Shubert
Theater), Will Roger Follies,
Anything Goes (Starlight Theater)
National commercial: SoBE/Super
Bowl. For loving support, I thank
you Mother!
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Rocky Horror Show- Live!, 1776.
BFA- Penn State. Utmost gratitude
to Stro, and much love to my family!
LARA SEIBERT (Ensemble) A
Dallas native back in Transylvania
again! Broadway: Young
Frankenstein (Inga u/s); National
tours: The Producers (Ulla u/s);
Regional: Drowsy Chaperone
(Janet), Crazy For You (Irene)
(Maine State Music Theater), The
Producers, Comedy of Errors
(Luciana) (Dallas Shakespeare).
Thanks to God, family, and
Frontier.
JENNIFER SMITH (Ensemble)
Eleven Broadway shows including original companies of Drowsy
Chaperone (Kitty), The Producers
and La Cage Aux Folles (Anne);
film and TV – “Law & Order
Criminal Intent” and “SVU,” “Curb
Your Enthusiasm,” The Producers
and Confessions of a Shopaholic
(Sarah). Recent inductee – Buddy
Holly Walk of Fame. Proud Equity
member.
MATTHEW J. VARGO
(Swing) Broadway: Cats (Tugger
& Munkustrap u/s.), Christmas
Carol (Original Cast Recording).
Tours: White Christmas (Phil Davis
u/s.), The Producers (Carmen Ghia
u/s.), Kiss Me, Kate (Gremio).
Regional: Whatever Happened
to Baby Jane? (World Premiere),
TUTS, Sacramento Music Circus,
PCLO, LA Music Center Opera.
Proud member Actor’s Equity since
1988. CSUF 1991.
ERICK R. WALCK (Ensemble)
leaves Las Vegas to join the
touring company of Young
Frankenstein. Last seen in Hello
Dolly! with Leslie Uggams and The
Producers with David Hasselhoff.
Erick is celebrating his 38th year
in the entertainment industry and
would like to acknowledge the
Waldo Foundation for its support
throughout the years.
MEL BROOKS (Book, Composer
& Lyricist, Producer) Director,
producer, writer and actor, Mel
Brooks is the creator of the 2001
smash hit Broadway musical The
Producers—winner of a recordbreaking 12 Tony Awards. Three
of those Tony Awards (Best
Score, Best Book of a Musical,
Best Musical) went to Mel Brooks
himself, as well as two Grammy
Awards (Best Musical Show Album
and Best Long-Form Music Video).
Mr. Brooks began his distinguished
career during television’s Golden
Age as a writer for Sid Caesar on
“Your Show of Shows” in 1951. In
1955 and in 1957, Brooks received
Emmy Award nominations (with
others) for Best Comedy Writing
for “Caesar’s Hour,” and in 1956
he was nominated (with others)
for Best Writing for a Variety
or Situation Comedy. In 1952,
Brooks wrote sketches for Leonard
Sillman’s Broadway smash-hit
revue, New Faces of 1952, and in
1957, together with Joe Darion, he
wrote the book for the Broadway
musical Shinbone Alley, which
starred Eartha Kitt. In 1962, he
wrote the book for the Broadway
musical All American, starring
Ray Bolger. In the ‘60s, Brooks
teamed up with Carl Reiner to
write and perform The 2000 Year
Old Man albums, which became
immediate bestsellers. In 1960 and
1961, Brooks and Reiner received
Grammy Award nominations for
Best Spoken-Word Comedy for
2000 Years and for Best Comedy
Performance for 2000 and One
Years, respectively. In 1997,
Brooks and Reiner teamed up
again for The 2000 Year Old Man
in the Year 2000. Both a book and
CD were released, the CD winning a Grammy Award in 1998
for the Best Spoken-Word Album,
Comedy. Brooks wrote and narrated
The Critic, a short satire on avantgarde art films, which received the
Academy Award for Best Animated
Short Subject in 1964. In 1965, he
teamed up with Buck Henry and
created “Get Smart,” the long-running television show starring Don
Adams as Agent 86. Brooks, along
with others, received an Emmy
Award for Outstanding Writing
Achievement in Comedy-Variety in
1967 for “The Sid Caesar, Imogene
Coca, Carl Reiner, Howard Morris
Special.” In 1968, he wrote and
directed his first feature film, The
Producers, starring Zero Mostel and
Gene Wilder, which earned him an
Academy Award for Best Original
Screenplay Written Directly for
the Screen. He then went on to
create a remarkable string of hit
comedies: 1970, wrote, directed
and acted in The Twelve Chairs;
1974, co-wrote, directed and acted
in Blazing Saddles and was nominated, along with John Morris, for
Best Title Song, “Blazing Saddles”;
1974, co-wrote and directed Young
Frankenstein; 1976, co-wrote,
directed and starred in Silent Movie;
1977, co-wrote, directed, produced
and starred in High Anxiety; 1981,
wrote, directed, produced and
starred in History of the World, Part
I; 1983, produced and starred in To
Be or Not to Be; 1987, co-wrote,
directed, produced and starred in
the hit sci-fi spoof, Spaceballs;
1991, co-wrote, directed, produced
and starred in Life Stinks; 1993,
co-wrote, directed, produced and
starred in Robin Hood: Men in
Tights; 1995, co-wrote, directed,
produced and starred in Dracula:
Dead and Loving It; 2005, co-wrote
and produced The Producers, the
film version of his Tony Awardwinning 2001 Broadway musical
and was nominated for a Grammy
for Best Song Written for a Motion
Picture, “There’s Nothing Like a
Show on Broadway.” For three
successive seasons, Brooks won the
Emmy Award for his role as Uncle
Phil on the hit comedy show, “Mad
About You.” His visionary film
company, Brooksfilms Limited,
founded in 1980, has produced
some of America’s most distinguished films, among them David
Lynch’s The Elephant Man, David
Cronenberg’s The Fly, Frances,
Richard Benjamin’s My Favorite
Year and 84 Charing Cross Road,
starring Anthony Hopkins and
Anne Bancroft.
THOMAS MEEHAN (Book)
won the 2003 Tony Award for
co-writing the book for Hairspray
SUSAN STROMAN (Director/
Choreographer) Ms. Stroman
directed and choreographed The
Producers, winner of a recordmaking 12 Tony Awards including Best Direction and Best
Choreography. She co-created,
directed and choreographed the
groundbreaking musical Contact
for Lincoln Center Theater, winning the 2000 Tony Award for
Best Choreography, as well as
Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle
and Lucille Lortel Awards and a
2003 Emmy Award for “Live at
Lincoln Center.” Other Broadway
credits include The Frogs,
Oklahoma! (Drama Desk, Outer
Critics Circle, Olivier Awards),
Thou Shalt Not, The Music Man
(Outer Critics Circle Award),
Steel Pier, Big, Show Boat (Tony,
Outer Critics Circle Awards),
Picnic and Crazy for You (Tony,
Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle,
Olivier Awards). Off-Broadway
productions include Happiness
for Lincoln Center Theater, And
the World Goes ’Round (Outer
Critics Circle Award) and Flora,
the Red Menace. For ten years she
choreographed Madison Square
Garden’s annual spectacular event
A Christmas Carol (Outer Critics
Circle Award), directed by Mike
Ockrent. For New York City
Opera: A Little Night Music, 110 in
the Shade, and Don Giovanni. Ms.
Stroman created Double Feature, a
full-length ballet for New York City
Ballet featuring the music of Irving
Berlin and Walter Donaldson. She
has created the ballets Blossom Got
Kissed for New York City Ballet’s
50th Anniversary season, But Not
For Me for the Martha Graham
Company, and Take Five…More
or Less for Pacific Northwest
Ballet. Her choreography received
an Emmy nomination for the HBO
presentation Liza – Stepping Out
at Radio City Music Hall, starring
Liza Minnelli. Other TV credits
include co-conceiver/choreographer for PBS’s Sondheim – a
Celebration at Carnegie Hall and
An Evening with the Boston Pops
– a Tribute to Leonard Bernstein.
She received the American
Choreography Award for her work
in Columbia Pictures feature film
Center Stage. Ms. Stroman directed
and choreographed The Producers:
The Movie Musical, nominated for
4 Golden Globes. She is the recipient of the George Abbott Award
for Outstanding Achievement in
the Theatre and the winner of a
record four Astaire Awards.
ROBIN WAGNER (Set Designer)
Broadway designs include the
new production of A Chorus Line,
The Producers (Tony Award),
The Boy From Oz, Kiss Me,
Kate, Saturday Night Fever, Side
Show, Angels in America, Victor/
Victoria, Jelly’s Last Jam, City Of
Angels (Tony Award), Crazy for
You, Jerome Robbins’ Broadway,
Chess, 42nd Street, Dreamgirls,
On the Twentieth Century (Tony
Award), A Chorus Line, Jesus
Christ Superstar, Lenny, Promises,
Promises, The Great White Hope,
and Hair. Other work includes
operas: the Metropolitan, Swedish
Royal, Vienna State, Royal Opera
Covent Garden. Honors also
include Drama Desk, Outer Critics
Circle and other awards. He is a
trustee of the Public Theater and
a member of the Theatre Hall of
Fame.
WILLIAM IVEY LONG
(Costume Designer) Young
Frankenstein marked Mr. Long’s
ninth Broadway collaboration with
Susan Stroman. Previous collaborations include The Frogs, Thou Shalt
Not, The Producers (Tony, Drama
Desk, Outer Critics Circle Awards),
The Music Man, Contact (Hewes
Award), Steel Pier, Big, Picnic,
Crazy for You (Tony, Outer Critics
Circle Awards), also A Christmas
Carol at Madison Square Garden,
Double Feature at New York City
Ballet as well as The Producers:
The Movie Musical (2005).
Other Broadway includes Nine
to Five, Pal Joey, Grey Gardens
(Tony Award), Hairspray (Tony,
Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle
Awards), Chicago, Sweet Charity,
La Cage aux Folles, The Boy From
Oz, Swing, Guys and Dolls (Drama
Desk Award), Lend Me a Tenor
(Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle
Awards), Nine (Tony, Drama Desk,
Maharam Awards). Mr. Long also
designed costumes for the Rolling
Stones Steel Wheels Tour and for
Siegfried and Roy at the Mirage
Hotel. He was inducted into the
Theatre Hall of Fame in 2005.
PETER KACZOROWSKI
(Lighting) Broadway: More than
35 plays and musicals including Time Stands Still, Waiting for
Godot, Is He Dead?, Curtains,Grey
Gardens, The Producers, Contact,
Kiss Me, Kate, The Music Man,
Steel Pier. Recent off-Broadway:
The Brothers/Sisters plays, The
Retributionists, Twelfth Night,
Ruined, Saturn Returns, Wig
Out! Resident companies: NY
Shakespeare Festival (both downtown and at the Delacorte), MTC,
Roundabout, Lincoln Center
Theatre, Playwrights Horizons,
City Center Encores! Regional:
The Goodman, Guthrie, Geffen,
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after having won the 2001 Tony
Award for co-writing the book of
The Producers. Earlier, in 1977, he
received his first Tony Award for
writing the book of Annie, which
was his first Broadway show, and
he has since written the books for
the musicals I Remember Mama,
Ain’t Broadway Grand, Annie
Warbucks, Bombay Dreams and
Cry-Baby. In addition, he is a
long-time contributor of humor
pieces, including “Yma Dream,”
to The New Yorker; an Emmy
Award-winning writer of television comedy; and a collaborator on
a number of screenplays, including
Mel Brooks’ Spaceballs, To Be or
Not to Be and the film version of
The Producers. He is also the coauthor of the libretto of 1984, an
opera composed by Lorin Maazel
and based on George Orwell’s classic novel of the same name, which
had its world premiere in the spring
of 2003 at London’s Royal Opera
House and was performed last year
at La Scala in Milan. Mr. Meehan
is a member of the Council of the
Dramatists Guild.
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Seattle Rep, La Jolla, Berkeley,
CTG, Long Wharf, Centerstage,
Hartford. Opera: The Met, NYCO,
San Francisco, Houston, Santa
Fe, Seattle. Abroad: Royal Opera,
Scottish Opera, Opera/North,
Edinburgh Festival, Maggio
Festival Florence, L’Arena di
Verona, La Fenice, OperBonn,
Teatro Sao Carlos Lisbon. Awards:
Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics,
Dramalogue and Hewes Design
awards.
JONATHAN DEANS (Sound
Designer) has been designing theatre sound for several decades. His
work has been heard on Broadway,
the West End and in Las Vegas.
Some recent credits are Young
Frankenstein in NYC, The Pirate
Queen, Lestat, Brooklyn, Taboo,
Follies, Seussical, The Music Man,
Fosse, Parade, Ragtime, Candide,
Disney’s King David and Cirque du
Soleil’s OVO, Believe, Love, KA,
Zumanity, O, Mystère, La Nouba
and Corteo. He has won a number of awards including the Dora,
Garland, LDI, NAACP Theatre
Award, EDDY and two Ovation
Awards. In 2005 he was presented
with the USITT Distinguished
Career in Sound Design Award.
Some of his work while living in
England included Time; Mutiny;
Dear Anyone; Marilyn; Kiss Me,
Kate; Jean Seberg; On Your Toes;
Why Me; Jumpers and The Real
Thing.
PAUL HUNTLEY (Hair and Wig
Design) London born Paul Huntley
is a special Tony Award winner as
well as a Drama Desk recipient.
Paul has worked on hundreds of
Broadway projects since arriving
in this country in 1972. His projects have included Cats, Amadeus,
Kiss Me, Kate, The Producers and
Hairspray. He has also worked
with some of the most talented
leading ladies of the American
Cinema. They include Bette Davis,
Vivien Leigh, Mae West, Glenn
Close, Angela Lansbury and Jessica
Lange. Movies are Christopher
Plummer in The Imaginarium of
Doctor Parnassus and Willem
Dafoe in Cirque Du Freak.
ANGELINA AVALLONE
(Make-up Design) Broadway
credits include West Side Story,
Rock of Ages, 9 to 5: The Musical,
Happiness, 33 Variations, Waiting
For Godot, Guys and Dolls,
Gypsy, Accent on Youth, The
Little Mermaid, Company, The
Coast of Utopia, How the Grinch
Stole Christmas, Sweeney Todd,
The Times They Are A-Changin’,
Curtains, The Pirate Queen,
Company, The Color Purple, The
Pajama Game, Grey Gardens,
Awake and Sing!, Fame Becomes
Me, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang,
Sweet Charity, The Light in the
Piazza, The Pillowman, Wonderful
Town, Seascape, Thoroughly
Modern Millie, Lestat, Dance of
the Vampires, Dracula the Musical,
Little Shop of Horrors and Our
Leading Lady for MTC.
CHRIS PETERSON (Associate
Choreographer) Broadway: Young
Frankenstein, Contact, Steel Pier,
On Your Toes, Crazy for You.
Also, four international companies
of Crazy for You; national tours of
Contact, Crazy For You, Anything
Goes, 42nd Street, Sugar Babies
with Ann Miller and Mickey
Rooney; Jubilee at Carnegie Hall;
for ten seasons Chris mounted
Madison Square Garden’s production of A Christmas Carol.
Television: “Celebrating Gershwin
with Mikhail Baryshnikov,” “The
Kennedy Center Honors,” “In
Performance at the White House,”
“The Today Show,” “David
Letterman Show,” “An Evening
With The Boston Pops.” Film: The
Producers and recently choreographed Evening starring Meryl
Streep.
TARA RUBIN CASTING
(Casting) Upcoming: A Little
Night Music. Broadway/tours:
Guys and Dolls, Billy Elliot, Shrek,
The Country Girl, Rock N’Roll
(US casting), The Farnsworth
Invention, …Young Frankenstein,
Little Mermaid, Mary Poppins,
My Fair Lady, Pirate Queen,
Les Misérables, History Boys
(US Casting), Spamalot, Jersey
Boys, …Spelling Bee, Producers,
Mamma Mia!, The Phantom of the
Opera, Good Vibrations, Bombay
Dreams, Oklahoma!, Happiness,
Flower Drum Song, Imaginary
Friends, Metamorphoses, Frogs,
Contact, Thou Shalt Not, Man of
No Importance. Yale Rep.
JEFF WHITING (Ass’t. Director/
Choreographer). Broadway:
Young Frankenstein; Wicked (5th
Anniversary); Lincoln Center:
Happiness. London: Jersey Boys.
National tours: Hairspray, The
Producers. Artistic Director of
The Open Jar Institute, theatre training program in NYC.
www.openjarproductions.com
STEVEN ZWEIGBAUM
(Associate Director) Production
Stage Manager for the original
companies of Shenandoah, 42nd
Street, Steaming, Singin’ in the
Rain, Me and My Girl, City of
Angels, Crazy for You, A Christmas
Carol at Madison Square Garden,
The Life, High Society, The
Producers, Young Frankenstein
and the revivals of Room Service,
Whoopee!, The Iceman Cometh,
Kiss Me, Kate, The Music Man,
and Blithe Spirit.
JUDI WILFORE (Company
Manager) is thrilled to be back
with the Mel Brooks’ family!
Broadway/National tours: Rent
(Broadway tour), The Producers,
Legends!, Hairspray, Chita Rivera:
A Dancer’s Life, Chicago, Les
Misérables, Seussical the Musical,
Vagina Monologues, Martin
Guerre, and The Phantom of the
Opera. Special thanks to LG.
JOSEPH
SHERIDAN
(Production Stage Manager)
worked on the New York company
of Young Frankenstein. He managed The Producers in New York,
Tokyo and Las Vegas. Kiss Me,
Kate; Show Boat; A Chorus Line;
The King and I and Fiddler on the
Roof are a few of the shows with
which Mr. Sheridan has toured
throughout North America.
SCOTT PEGG (Assistant
Stage Manager) Broadway: The
Producers; Kiss Me, Kate; Present
Laughter. Off-Broadway: Vanities
A New Musical, Secrets of a Soccer
Mom, Fugue, Obie Award-winners
TALK, And God Created Great
Whales, White Chocolate, Robby
Benson’s Open Heart, Naked
Boys Singing!, La Terrasse (Mike
Ockrent, Director). Regional:
Alabama Shakespeare Festival,
The Children’s Theatre Company.
GLEN KELLY (Music
Arrangements and Supervision)
Music supervisor and arranger for
Broadway’s The Producers. Other
Broadway credits: Spamalot, The
Drowsy Chaperone, Beauty and
the Beast, The Frogs, High Society,
Steel Pier, Dance a Little Closer
and A Christmas Carol. For New
York City Ballet, he arranged the
music and co-wrote the libretto
(with Susan Stroman) for Double
Feature. Other ballet credits
include Thou Swell (for NYCB)
and But Not for Me for the Martha
Graham Company.
PATRICK
S.
BRADY
(Music Supervision and Vocal
Arrangements) was the musical
director and vocal arranger for the
Broadway production and film
version of The Producers. He also
served as musical supervisor for
two national tours and international
companies in London, Toronto and
Melbourne. Other Broadway shows
include The Will Rogers Follies,
Nick & Nora, Crazy for You, King
David, Big, Triumph of Love,
Fosse. Off-Broadway credits: Pete
‘n’ Keely, Closer Than Ever and St.
Louis Woman. He has arranged and
conducted albums for Sally Mayes
(The Comden & Green Songbook,
The Story Hour), Judy Kaye (Diva
by Diva) and Rebecca Luker
(Anything Goes). He most recently
served as the musical director and
conductor for Young Frankenstein
on Broadway.
DOUG
BESTERMAN
(Orchestrations) Three-time Tony
Award winner. Broadway: Tarzan,
Thoroughly Modern Millie (2002
Tony/Drama Desk Awards), The
Producers (2001 Tony/Drama
Desk), Fosse (1999 Tony), The
Music Man, Seussical, Big, Damn
Yankees, Gentlemen Prefer
Blondes, Dracula. Also King
David, A Christmas Carol and the
Radio City Music Hall Christmas
Spectacular. West End: Guys and
Dolls. Regional: Sister Act, I Sent
a Letter to My Love, Paramour.
Ballets: But Not for Me and
Double Feature. Film/television:
The Producers, Chicago, Mulan,
Anastasia, Pocahontas, Superstar,
“Lincoln,” “Cinderella,” “Annie,”
”Geppetto,” “South Pacific” and
“Scrubs.” Arranged for Christine
Andreas, Toni Braxton, Beyoncé
Knowles, Barry Manilow, Mandy
Patinkin, Barbra Streisand and
the Boston Pops. As a composer,
Doug’s songs have been heard
in the film The Punisher, the TV
shows “Summerland” and “One
Life to Live” and the musical Hats;
he recently composed scores for the
films Out of Step and Exit Speed.
ROBERT BILLIG (Music
Director/Conductor) Broadway:
Wicked, Never Gonna Dance,
Man of La Mancha, Chicago, …
Whorehouse Goes Public, Miss
Saigon, Les Misérables, Song
And Dance, Singin’ In The Rain,
Best Little Whorehouse in Texas.
National tours: The Drowsy
Chaperone, Wicked. Off-Broadway
and film: Little Shop of Horrors.
He has conducted in nightclubs and
international symphony orchestras.
JOHN MILLER (Music
Coordinator) Recent Broadway:
Rock of Ages, Burn the Floor,
Young Frankenstein, Xanadu,Les
Misérables, Grey Gardens, The
Drowsy Chaperone, Beauty and
the Beast, Hairspray, Coram
Boy, Threepenny Opera, Sweeney
Todd, The Producers, Movin’ Out,
Caroline, or Change, Little Shop
of Horrors, Hot Feet, Thoroughly
Modern Millie, 42nd Street,
Urinetown, Nine, La Bohème,
Oklahoma!, Jekyll & Hyde, The
Rocky Horror Show, Seussical,
The Music Man, Fosse and The
Civil War. Studio musician (bass):
Michael Jackson, Madonna,
Portishead, Eric Clapton, BB
King, Frank Sinatra, Carly
Simon, Celine Dion, Smashing
Pumpkins, Tommy Flanagan,
Pete Seeger, NY Philharmonic.
His album Stage Door Johnny –
John Miller: takes on Broadway is
available on PS Classics Records.
www.JohnMillerBass.com
NEIL A. MAZZELLA/HUDSON
THEATRICAL ASSOCIATES
(Technical Supervision) Recent: 9
to 5: The Musical, You’re Welcome
America, Reasons to be Pretty,
Young Frankenstein, November,
The Homecoming, and the Papal
Visit: Mass at Yankee Stadium.
HTA is a member of Neil’s Hudson
family which includes Hudson
Scenic Studio and Hudson/Christie
Lighting. Joining Neil on the HTA
team is Sam Ellis and Irene Wang.
MOLLY HAYDON (National
Marketing and Press Director)
began her career in Entertainment
Marketing in Canada promoting
concerts and touring theatre. For
more than a decade now, she has
specialized in marketing Broadway
tours across North America and
in London. First national tours
include: The Producers, Wicked,
Kiss Me, Kate, Copenhagen, Dame
Edna’s The Royal Tour, The Sound
of Music and Annie. Molly has
had the distinct privilege of working with the industry’s finest and
funniest. Special thanks to Tom
Viertel and Laura Green.
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TRINITY WHEELER (Stage
Manager) has worked in the touring industry for over 10 years as
a performer, Company Manager,
Stage Manager and Associate
Producer. National Tours: Rent
(Starring Anthony Rapp and Adam
Pascal), The Wedding Singer,
The Producers, Oklahoma!, The
Wizard of Oz, Singin’ in the Rain,
The Scarlet Pimpernel, Titanic and
West Side Story. www.trinity
wheeleronline.com.
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The Frankel • Baruch •
Viertel • Routh Group
(Producer) have produced and
managed a wide range of productions for more than 24 years.
Currently: A Little Night Music,
Hairspray and Stomp. Previously:
Burn the Floor, The Norman
Conquests, Gypsy, The Producers,
Sweeney Todd, Company, Little
Shop of Horrors, The Weir, The
Sound of Music, Smokey Joe’s
Café, Angels in America, Oleanna,
Love Letters, Diving Miss Daisy,
Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de
Lune, Penn and Teller and many
others. Upcoming: Leap of Faith
with music by Alan Menken and
Harps and Angels with music by
Randy Newman. Their shows have
been awarded 36 Tonys, 47 Drama
Desk Awards, 38 Outer Critics
Awards, 4 Grammys, 8 Olivier
Awards and 2 Pulitzer Prizes. They
have the rare distinction of having won Tony Awards in all four
“Best” categories – play, musical,
revival of a play and revival of a
musical.
NETworks PRESENTATIONS,
LLC (Producer) Founded in 1995
by Kenneth Gentry, Seth Wenig
and Scott Jackson, NETworks has
produced and managed over 70
national and international touring
productions. Previous productions
include Oliver!, Little Women starring Maureen McGovern, Jekyll &
Hyde, Kiss of the Spiderwoman,
Cinderella starring Eartha Kitt
and Deborah Gibson, Fosse starring Ben Vereen and Ruthie
Henshall, The Light in the Piazza,
My Fair Lady co-produced with
Cameron Mackintosh, Rodgers
and Hammerstein’s Oklahoma,
Matthew Bourne’s Swan Lake,
Sweeney Todd, The Demon Baber
of Fleet Street, among many others. Joining returning hits Annie,
The Drowsy Chaperone, Hairspray
and The Wizard of Oz this season
are Disney’s Beauty and the Beast,
Young Frankenstein, and The
Lincoln Center Theatre’s production of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s
South Pacific. Future titles include
Joyful Noise’s production of
Handel’s Messiah Rocks, Spring
Awakening and Les Misérables.
JAMES D. STERN (Producer)
An award-winning theatrical
producer, filmmaker and CEO
of Endgame Entertainment, he
has produced over 50 Broadway
shows and films, including the
Tony-Award-winning musicals,
The Producers and Hairspray; the
Tony-nominated Legally Blonde;
and the international hit, Stomp. In
film, he has directed and produced
the critically acclaimed documentary Every Little Step. As producer,
his films include Proof, Hotel
Rwanda, I’m Not There and An
Education.
DOUGLAS L. MEYER
(Producer) fulfilled a dream by
winning a Tony as co-producer
of The Producers and Hairspray!
Other broadway credits: Swing!,
Little Shop of Horrors, The
Wedding Singer, Irving Berlin’s
White Christmas, Legally Blonde.
His greatest creation: his AbbyNormal son, David “the Brain”
Meyer. Doug is a Certified
Financial Planner and Managing
Director of Investments with
Wells Fargo Advisors in Deerfield,
Illinois. Doug has deep love for
his wife Stacey, desserts and the
Cubs.
JON B. PLATT (Producer)
Tony Awards: Angels in America:
Millennium Approaches (Pulitzer
Prize for Drama), Perestroika,
Copenhagen, and God of Carnage.
Tony nominations: Damn Yankees;
Peter Pan; Hello, Dolly!; The
Diary of Anne Frank; Lonesome
West; Man of La Mancha; Wicked;
You’re Welcome America. National:
The Sound of Music, Sunset
Boulevard, Hair, Jesus Christ
Superstar, Fiddler on the Roof, The
Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, A
Chorus Line, The Graduate and
Blue Man Group “Tubes.” Current:
Wicked: New York, San Francisco,
London, Tokyo, Sydney, Stuttgart;
God of Carnage, Little House on
the Prairie, The 101 Dalmations
Musical.
FRANKEL
GREEN
T H E A T R I C A L
MANAGEMENT (General
Management) is currently general
managing Burn the Floor, Finian’s
Rainbow and Rock of Ages in
New York, Stomp in New York
and on tour and The Rat Pack on
tour. Richard Frankel and Laura
Green have managed more than
90 productions over the past 20
years in New York and on tour
in the U.S., Europe and Asia.
Previous productions: Smokey
Joe’s Cafe, The Sound of Music,
The Weir, Swing!, The Producers,
Hairspray, Little Shop of Horrors,
Sweeney Todd, Company, Young
Frankenstein, Gypsy and The
Norman Conquests.
A ctors ’
E q uity
Association (AEA), founded
in 1913, represents more than
48,000 actors and stage managers
in the United States. Equity seeks
to advance, promote and foster the
art of live theatre as an essential
component of our society. Equity
negotiates wages and working conditions, providing a wide range
of benefits, including health and
pension plans. AEA is a member
of the AFL-CIO, and is affiliated
with FIA, an international organization of performing arts unions.
The Equity emblem is our mark of
excellence. actorsequity.org
Production Stage Manager................................... Joseph Sheridan
Stage Manager........................................................ Trinity Wheeler
Ass’t. Stage Manager.......................................................Scott Pegg
Ass’t. Director.............................................................. Scott Bishop
Ass’t. Director/Choreographer......................................Jeff Whiting
Ass’t. Choreographer/Dance Captain............................ James Gray
Dance Captain............................................... Kristin Marie Johnson
Assoc. Set Designer..................................................David Peterson
Ass’t. Set Designer.......................................................... Atkin Pace
Assoc. Costume Design............................................ Scott Traugott
Ass’t. Costume Designer........................................Robert J. Martin
Ass’t. Costume Designer.............................................Cathy Parrott
Ass’t. to William Ivey Long....................................Donald Sanders
Assoc. Lighting Designer............................................... John Viesta
Ass’t. Lighting Designer..........................................Keri Thibodeau
Lighting Programmer................................................Josh Weitzman
Moving Light Programmer.......................................Thomas Hague
Assoc. Sound Designer/Programmer.............................Brian Hsieh
Technical Supervisor..................................................Neil Mazzella
Hudson Theatrical Associates
Assoc. Technical Supervisor..............................................Sam Ellis
Hudson Theatrical Associates
Ass’t. Wig Designer......................................... Giovanna Calabretta
Management Assistant..................................................... Ed Brooks
Frankenstein Puppet...................................... Michael Curry Design
Prosthetic Design............................................................. John Dods
Special Effects...............................BU WHO Entertainments Corp.
Marc Brickman, John H. Lyons
Production Carpenter..................................................... Todd Frank
Head Carpenter................................................... Michael Reininger
Ass’t. Carp/Automation................................ Christopher Mattingly
Ass’t. Carpenter.................................................................Greg Pott
Flyman.........................................................................Chris Conrad
Production Electrician..............................................Brian McGarity
Head Electrician..............................................................Billy Paton
Ass’t. Electrician........................................................ Nicole Laeger
Ass’t. Electrician............................................................Scott Butler
Production Audio.................................................... Simon Matthew
Head Audio........................................................................Matt Nall
Ass’t. Audio..................................................................Ben Madden
Production Properties.................................................. Eric Castaldo
Head Props.............................................................. John Mark Zink
Ass’t. Props...........................................................Austin Rodriguez
Production Wardrobe............................................Douglas Petitjean
Head Wardrobe................................................................ Paul Bigot
Ass’t. Wardrobe................ Floyd Williams, Molly Yoder-Williams
Production Makeup................................................. Brandon Claflin
Makeup....................................................................... Kelly Meurer
Production Wigs............................................................... Ed Wilson
Head Wigs......................................................................Jeff Knaggs
The use of any recording device, either audio or
video, and the taking of photographs, either with or
without flash, is strictly prohibited.
Ass’t. Wigs.................................................................. Kelly Meurer
Wigs................................................................................ Judi Jewell
Dialect Coach............................................................Deborah Hecht
Ass’t. to Mr. Brooks.............................................. Shelby Van Vliet
Ass’t. to Mr. Routh...................................................... Katie Adams
Ass’t. to Mr. Viertel............................................ Tania Senewiratne
Ass’t. to Mr. Baruch.......................................................Sonja Soper
Advertising.....................................................................Spotco, Inc.
Drew Hodges, Jim Edwards, Tom McCann,
Tom Greenwald, Aaliytha Davis
Website........................................................ Mammoth Advertising
Production Photography.................................................Paul Kolnik
Merchandising..................................................................Dewynters
Music Preparation..........................................Anixter-Rice Services
Accounting . ............................... Fried and Kowgios Partners, LLP
NETworks Presentations, LLC
Legal.............................Franklin, Weinrib, Rudell & Vassallo, P.C
Payroll Services........................................................................ ADP
Insurance...........................................................DeWitt Stern Group
Travel Agency....................................... Road-Rebel Transportation
Tax Consultant........................... Brent A.Turner, One Source, PSG
IT Services............................George W. Wilson, One Source, PSG
Trucking.....................................................................Clark Transfer
For Frankel Green Theatrical Management
Finance Director.................................................. Michael Naumann
Ass’t. to Mr. Frankel......................................................Heidi Libby
Ass’t. to Ms. Green............................................. Joshua A. Saletnik
Ass’t. Finance Director................................................... Sue Bartelt
Finance Associate.......................................................Heather Allen
IT Manager.............................................................. Roddy Pimentel
Director of Business Affairs.....................................Michael Sinder
Business Affairs Ass’t.............................................Dario Dallalasta
Booking................................................ On the Road Booking, LLC
Simma Levine
Office Manager...........................................................Emily Wright
Receptionists............................... Christina Cataldo, Allison Raines
For NETworks Presentations
Chief Executive Officer................................................. Ken Gentry
Chief Operating Officer........................................ Scott W. Jackson
Executive Producers..................................................Seth C. Wenig,
Kary M. Walker
Assoc. Producer........................................................Angela Rowles
Ass’t. Producer...........................................................Mary K. Witte
Senior General Manager...............................Gregory Vander Ploeg
Production Managers............................Jason Juenker, Justin Reiter
Ass’t. Production Manager............................................. Brad Korff
Marketing/PR...............................................................Heather Hess
Playbill Creation & Maintenance...............................Tuckey Requa
Music Coordinator........................................................John Mezzio
Controller................................................................Paula L. Jenkins
Assistant Controller................................................ Jennifer Gifford
Chief Accountant....................................................Beverly Howard
Accountant.......................................................................Lisa Blank
Office Manager...................................................... Buddy Piccolino
Office Assistant.............................................................. Nancy Kerr
Credits
Scenery, special effects and automation provided by Hudson
Scenic Studio. Additional scenery and automation provided by
Showmotion, Inc. Painted drops provided by Scenic Art Studios.
Lighting equipment provided by PRG Lighting. Sound equipment
provided by PRG Audio. Stage properties provided by Cigar Box
Studios, Rabbit’s Choice and Costume Armour. Additional props
built by Showman Fabricators. Frankenstein puppet provided
by Michael Curry Design. Hand props by Moon Boots - Jennie
Marino. Costumes by Carelli Costumes, Inc.; David Quinn;
EuroCo Costumes, Inc.; Jennifer Love Costumes, Inc.; John David
Ridge, Inc.; Scafati Tailoring, Inc.; Tricorne, Inc. Shoes by T.O.
Dey, J.C. Theatrical and LaDuca. Millinery by Carelli Costumes,
Inc.; Rodney Gordon; Inc.
Rehearsed at the New 42nd Street Studios
Special Thanks to
Providence Performing Arts Center;
Norbert Mongeon
Financial Services and banking arrangements by
M&T Bank
Visit the Young Frankenstein website at
YoungFrankensteinTheMusical.com
Please turn off your cell phones and pagers
prior to the beginning of the performance.
The Actors and Stage Managers employed in
this production are members of Actors’ Equity
Association, the union of professional actors and
stage managers in the United States.
All stage work performed by employees represented by IATSE.
UNITED SCENIC ARTISTS represents the
designers and scenic painters for the American
Theatre.
The Musicians employed in this production are
members of the American Federation of Musicians of the United States and Canada.
The Director and Choreographer are members of
the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society,
an independent national labor union.
The Press Agents, Company and House
Managers employed in this production
are represented by the Association of
Theatrical Press Agents & Managers.
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STAFF FOR YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN
Executive Producers
Tom Viertel
Kenneth H. Gentry
Seth C. Wenig
General Management/Production Management
Gregory Vander Ploeg, Brad Korff
NY General Management
Frankel Green Theatrical Management
Richard Frankel
Laura Green
Joe Watson
Leslie Ledbetter
Company Manager
Judi Wilfore
Assoc. Company Manager................................... Townsend Teague
National Marketing and Press Director
Molly Haydon
New York Press Representative
The Hartman Group
Michael Hartman, Lealie Baden, Alyssa Hart
Exclusive North American Tour Direction
On the Road Booking, Simma Levine
Casting
Tara Rubin Casting
Tara Rubin, CSA, Merri Sugarman, CSA
Eric Woodall, CSA, Laura Schutzel, CSA,
Paige Blansfield, Dale Brown, Kaitlin Shaw
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­­­Denver Center Attractions Staff
D. Randall Weeks............ Executive Director/President/C.O.O.
Jeff Hovorka............................ Director of Media & Marketing
John Ekeberg.............. Director of Programming & Operations
Genevieve Miller...............................Public Relations Manager
Sarah J. Hom, Dan French......................................Group Sales
Jeff Rummer.......................................... Marketing Coordinator
DCPA Marketing Staff
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Melissa marano...........................................Marketing Director,
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Genevieve Miller..............................Public Relations Manager,
Denver Center Attractions
Chris Wiger................... Publicity & Public Relations Manager,
Denver Center Theatre Co.
Anita Edwards....................................... Web Services Manager
Gabe Ratliff..................................Web Designer/Administrator
Sarah J. Hom........................................... Group Sales Manager
Tina Risch............Group Sales/Community Outreach Manager
Dan French............................................. Group Sales Associate
Cleo Maez.............................................. Group Sales Associate/
Student Matinee Manager
Heidi Bosk.......................... Tours and Promotions Coordinator
Jamie Alexander...............Audience Development Coordinator
Jeff Rummer.......................................... Marketing Coordinator
Mark Onderdonk.........................Marketing Business Manager
Wid Horner...................................... Phone Campaign Manager
Karla Satterlee..................Phone Campaign Assistant Manager
Publications
Sylvie Drake.........................................Director of Publications
Suzanne Blandón.......Associate Director of PR & Publications
Brenda Elliott...................................... Senior Graphic Designer
Kyle Malone....................................... Senior Graphic Designer
Kim Conner....................................................Graphic Designer
Seth Holt............................................... Production Coordinator
Development Department
Dorothy Denny................................... Executive Vice President
Linda Mitchell.............................................. Associate Director
David Zupancic............................................ Associate Director
Katharine Tyson............................................ Associate Director
Mary Mosher................. Major Gifts/Membership Coordinator
Christopher Goetz................................. Development Associate
Mark Tilsher..........................................Business Administrator
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Denver Center Attractions gratefully acknowledges
the following support in its 2010 season
Director of Ticket Services....................................Kirk Petersen
Associate Director of Ticket Services.................Bruce Albright
Manager of Subscription Services......................... David Smith
Box Office Show Manager..................................Jennifer Lopez
Box Office Managers............................... Benjamin Koucherik,
Alex Spalding, Laura Yaeger
Show Leads..............................Kevin Dykstra, Douglas Evans,
Patye Gibbons, Miles Hooley,
Joelle Parrott, Steve Rupp, Travis Warner
Subscription Agents......................... Bill Harris, Mary Huckins,
Jan Miller, Greg Swan
Ticket Agents..........................Lou Adducci, Kirsten Anderson,
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Julie Lemieux, Kirk LeValley, Scott Lix,
Neil Singleton, Tim Slattery, Robert Warner
Associate Director of Information Services................. Jim Hipp
Senior Paciolan Analyst......................................Bobby Jiminez
The Buell Theatre
is part of the Denver Performing Arts Complex,
owned and operated by the City and County of Denver,
Division of Theaters and Arenas.
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CEAVCO’s relationship to the theatre is no accident.
“Collaboration,” says Jack Emerson, President
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“In theatre, the production uses actors, lighting,
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Recently, The Brown Palace Hotel developed a
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