Critical Essay by Tom Milne
Young Frankenstein begins on a dark and stormy night, with the camera panning lovingly over a torchlit courtyard, zooming slowly in to a dusty window, and dissolving as th...
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Critical Essay by Robert Asahina
I have never been an admirer of Mel Brooks, although I enjoyed Young Frankenstein when it came out a little over a year ago. To be sure, his oeuvre has included some ...
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Critical Essay by Jay Cocks
Of course [Young Frankenstein's] funny. And of course it's grating, flatulent, desperate—all in the best and the worst manner of Mel Brooks. As comic ...
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Critical Essay by Colin L. Westerbeck, Jr.
The Frankenstein story, as we all know, is about a creature made up entirely of misappropriate and mismatched parts. That's pretty much the way Mel B...
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Critical Essay by John Russell Taylor
[Young Frankenstein] is remarkably restrained considering that Brooks made it with the triumphant commercial success of Blazing Saddles under his belt; and that,...
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Is the $20 million stage version of "Young Frankenstein" a monster hit or miss?Most New York critics were decidedly cool to the new Mel Brooks musical that opened Thursday at Broadway's Hilton Thea...
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In the last six years, Roger Bart has had quite a ride. "The Producers," of course. Movies. Television. Remember George, the psychotic pharmacist on "Desperate Housewives"? And now back to Broadway...
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What does it take to bring a big green monster — not to mention a $20 million musical — to toe-tapping life? A nearly 80-year-old Irving Berlin standard called "Puttin' on the Ritz."The...
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Twenty minutes to curtain…Dad: This should be great! I loved The Producers! And I don’t really care for musical theater!Mom: This should be great! I loved The Producers! And I love mu...
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Mel Brooks' stage version of
"Young Frankenstein," his follow-up to one of the biggest hits
in Broadway history, has opened to a collective shrug of the
shoulders from critics...
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"The Pirate Queen," shipwrecked by blistering reviews and sinking box-office receipts, will close June 17 after a disappointing Broadway run.The lavish musical by the team who created "Les Miserabl...
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When Christopher Fitzgerald learned he'd be in one of Broadway's biggest shows, he was already deep in another role. He was trying to act from inside an enormous, marshmallowy Cabbage Patch costume...
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Max Bialystock and Leo Bloom are bringing down the curtain."The Producers," Mel Brooks' hit Broadway musical, will close April 22 after 2,502 performances at the St. James Theatre."The last six yea...
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The annual "Lucky Shops" event, billed by Lucky Magazine as the "ultimate shopping experience," returns to New York Oct. 26-27.The fourth annual event benefits Baby Buggy, the nonprofit organizatio...
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Critical Essay by Tom Milne
Critics are cool to `Young Frankenstein'
