Mel Brooks’ Young Frankenstein the musical opened at the Croswell Opera House last night, and it is funny and tuneful. Based on the movie of the same name, it is familiar Mel Brooks territory and the entire movie script is intact here, and then some. It’s an adult (okay, PG-13) entertainment filled with double-entendres, old-schoolContinue reading “Young Frankenstein brings the laughs at The Croswell Opera House”
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“Young Frankenstein” the musical, Wharton Center East Lansing (Review)
It is what it is, and that is all that it is. Funny and entertaining, Mel Brooks’ musical adaptation of his own movie of Young Frankenstein is now playing at the Wharton Center in East Lansing — and if you missed it here (it closes Sunday evening) it rolls into the Detroit Opera House inContinue reading ““Young Frankenstein” the musical, Wharton Center East Lansing (Review)”
Superb cast salvages “The Producers” at Croswell Opera House
First — there are huge fans of Mel Brooks’ musical THE PRODUCERS, and there are those who are not (me) 12 Tonys notwithstanding (I voted for “The Full Monty”). It’s an actor’s dream to perform these roles — its another task entirely to sit for three hours in an audience being inundated with mean-spiritedness. TheContinue reading “Superb cast salvages “The Producers” at Croswell Opera House”
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