Mel Brooks is considering a musical of
Young Frankenstein!!
From Yahoo:
"Mel Brooks thinks it's time for Frankenstein to dance By Arthur Spiegelman
Sun Apr 9, 4:22 PM ET
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Mel Brooks thinks it is almost time for Frankenstein to sing and dance on Broadway.
The comic filmmaker, who made a monster hit musical out of his 1968 movie "The Producers," says he is adapting another of his classic film comedies for the stage -- this time the 1974 "Young Frankenstein," a spoof on the Frankenstein saga which he says is perhaps the best movie he ever made.
With no deadline set, Brooks says he is in the middle of writing the score, including a song for scary Frau Blucher, the caretaker of the Frankenstein castle still madly in love with that late, unlamented mad scientist..."
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I'm so happy that he has a project to consider, what with his wife (Anne Bancroft) passing away last year. Good luck, Mel!
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