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'Young Frankenstein' is the whoopee cushion of American musicals, an island of inanity in a sea of silly. Built by Mel Brooks to capitalize on the fond associations with his 1974 movie of the same title ('Frau Blucher' . . . 'Neighhh!'), the show is a juvenile jaunt down memory lane, the kind of place where no joke about penis size goes untold.

You smile, even laugh, a little at the familiar gags that play out on the stage of the Kennedy Center Opera House: the migrating hump of excitable Igor (Cory English); the demand by the increasingly mad doctor (Roger Bart) that the name is pronounced 'Frahnkenshteen,' and best of all, the efforts by the clumsy Monster (the fabulous Shuler Hensley) to display Astaire-like savoir-faire in a black-tie sendup of 'Puttin' On the Ritz.'

Shuler Hensley plays the monster and Roger Bart plays young Dr. Frederick Frankenstein in the musical version of "Young Frankenstein," which comes Tuesday to Chicago.

Frankenstein has always been one of the more lovable monsters out there. It's hard to resist an enormous, funny-looking, green guy who doesn't say much.

Shuler Hensley, left, and Roger Bart in a scene from " Young Frankenstein." The fun, silly musical opened at the Palace Theater Tuesday night after a 48-minute delay.

Just in time for the Halloween season, Mel Brooks ' "Young Frankenstein: The Musical" opened Tuesday night in Mortensen Hall at the Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts .

The Broadway smash "Young Frankenstein" is ALIVE and in Hartford. Actors are bringing the Mel Brooks classic to life at The Bushnell Theater for the Performing Arts for six nights only.

Fans of Mel Brooks rejoice. The musical "Young Frankenstein," named Best Musical of 2008 by the Outer Critics Circle Award, will begin a week- long run at the Bushnell in Hartford beginning on Tuesday.

"The New Mel Brooks Musical Young Frankenstein" hit the road this week with a flash and a whimper.

Mel Brooks won't be coming to Providence to see his baby - Young Frankenstein - launch its national tour Tuesday at the Providence Performing Arts Center.

Make it cheaper, just don't make it smaller. Touring Broadway productions have thrived in an economic landscape ravaged by falling stock prices and collapsing banks, but with capitalization funds harder to come by, producers are finding more and more innovative ways to keep costs down and attract newly reticent consumers.

Tony Award Winners Roger Bart and Shuler Hensley will Reprise the Roles of Dr. Frederick Frankenstein and The Monster in the First National Tour of The New Mel Brooks Musical Young Frankenstein By Young Frankenstein The Musical 8/10/2009 It was recently announced that Tony Award winners Roger Bart and Shuler Hensley will reprise the roles of Dr.

Roger Bart and Shuler Hensley will reprise their Broadway roles for the national tour of Mel Brook's "Young Frankenstein" musical which will play Hartford's Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts Oct.

Roger Bart And Shuler Hensley Set To Reprise Their Original Broadway Roles In The First National Tour Of YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN, Opens At PPAC 9/21-10/4 Friday, July 31, 2009; Posted: 11:07 PM - by BWW News Desk The Frankel Baruch Viertel Routh Group and NETworks Presentations LLC are pleased to announce that Tony Award winners and original stars of ...

Roger Bart and Shuler Hensley will reprise their Broadway roles as Young Frankenstein and his Monster, respectively, in the national tour of Mel Brooks and Thomas Meehan's musical comedy.