The Mel Brooks film Young Frankenstein is something of a family favourite at From Beer To Paternity Towers so the chance to see the musical version on Broadway was too good an opportunity to miss. The stage version is pretty faithful to the movie one (but it obviously has much more singing and dancing) and follows the same story of a Frankenstein relative returning to the castle of his grandfather and reluctantly carrying on the family business, aided and abetted by the hunchback Igor and the sexy lab assistant Inga.
It's slapstick aplenty and music hall gags by the shedload and it's good fun. The dance routines could be a bit tighter and the script could do with a trim but it's pretty decent stuff and deserved better than the utter panning it got in Time Out New York.
Sadly, because of that panning, it may well not make it over here...
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