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  This Weekend: Theatre
Puttin’ on the Ritz – Which is Hard to Do When You Used to Be Dead

Mel Brooks has been making America laugh for over 60 years so I think it is safe to say that the man knows what he is doing. Whether you are a fan of television’s “The Dick Van Dyke Show” or “Get Smart” or his many movies including “History of the World Part 1”, “High Anxiety” and of course, “Blazing Saddles”, Mel knows how to make us giggle, chuckle or downright guffaw. And what can be funny onscreen can be even funnier on stage especially when it is set to music. That is what Brooks thought and what he proved when “The Producers” hit Broadway and became a smash hit. Well he is at it again in the classic tale that asks the question; How dead is dead? – Young Frankenstein.

When Dr. Frederick Frankenstein (pronounced Fronkensteen) travels to his ancestral home to disprove all the legends surrounding his heritage he finds out how wrong he really is. With the help of the wacky misfits who take care of the place including Frau Blucher (cue the horses), Igor (pronounced Eye-gor) and the beautiful, if not brilliant, Inga, he sets out to recreate his grandfather’s experiments. But things go horribly awry when Igor procures a brain that belonged to someone he calls “Abbey Normal”. After Frederick’s tightly wound fiancée Elizabeth arrives things become even more complicated as the true meaning of opposites attract make for some very strange bedfellows. And when the song and dance show ends up with villagers and torches, well you can imagine that they really didn’t like the show. But just as all seems lost there’s nothing like a simple brain transfer to give everyone something they have been missing.

Young Frankenstein will only be at the Pantages for a short time so don’t wait to catch this cast of crazy characters singing and dancing their way through “Transylvania Mania”, “He Vas My Boyfriend” or “Puttin’ on the Ritz”. Yes, the reanimated have never been so entertaining and now is your chance to be steppin’ out with your baby where the funniest play may be tonight!
- Brent B.
What: Young Frankenstein
Where: The Pantages Theatre, 6233 Hollywood Blvd, Hollywood
When: Tuesday – Friday at 8pm, Saturday at 2pm and 8pm, Sunday at 1pm and 6:30pm, July 27 – August 15
Tickets: $25.00 - $85.00
Info: 213.480.3232, www.ticketmaster.com , www.goldstar.com
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