Mel Brooks’ Young Frankenstein is coming to London’s West End

The stage version of Mel Brooks‘ classic 1970s movie Young Frankenstein is set for London’s West End in the autumn of 2017.

We’ve received work via an official release this morning that the production, based on the Oscar-nominated smash hit 1974 film co-written by Thomas Meehan, will debut in Theatreland following a stint at the Newcastle Theatre Royal (26 August to 9 September 2017).

Brooks will once again collaborate with Broadway director and choreographer Susan Stroman for this all-singing all-dancing new production, bringing his and Gene Wilder’s classic movie to life on stage.

Young Frankenstein, the wickedly inspired re-imagining of the Mary Shelley classic, see’s Frederick Frankenstein, an esteemed New York brain surgeon and professor, inherit a castle and laboratory in Transylvania from his deranged genius grandfather, Victor Von Frankenstein.  He now faces a dilemma – does he continue to run from his family’s tortured past or does he stay in Transylvania to carry on his grandfather’s mad experiments reanimating the dead and, in the process, fall in love with his sexy lab assistant Inga?

More news as it comes in.