Young Frankenstein
Young Frankenstein hosted by Teri Garr
“Young Frankenstein” will play at the Hollywood Palm Cinema in Naperville. One of the screenings on Sunday is a fundraiser for MS. Teri Garr to host screenings of the iconic Mel Brooks movie in Chicago, include “Young Frankenstein” over the Halloween weekend.
When Mel Brooks released Young Frankenstein, the astronomically successful The Producers in 2001, critics and audiences wondered which of his lucrative properties would be the focus of the inevitable follow-up. A lyric in The New Mel Brooks Musical: Young Frankenstein makes it abundantly clear that they’ll “be back with Blazing Saddles.”
The New Mel Brooks Musical: Young Frankenstein, playing now at Playhouse Square, doesn’t have much going for it. Sure, the cast is good and the music is good and the set is good and the energy is good. But, that is its problem: it doesn’t possess anything beyond “good” or anything that is brilliantly original to make it a must-see show.
There’s everything you would expect from a musical adaptation of the film: lots of innuendo, cringeworthy wordplay and Frau Blücher’s whinnying horses. But, Mel Brooks’ script is not written for a generation of South Park viewers who have become accustomed to intelligent social satire. Brooks is writing for the over sixty-five crowd that fondly remembers his work on assorted variety shows and Get Smart.
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