The New Mel Brooks musical, Young Frankenstein, book by Brooks and Thomas Meehan, music and lyrics by Brooks, is primarily an entertainment. It's full of old-fashioned vaudeville numbers, catchy, zippy dance numbers by director/choreographer Susan Stroman, bouncy tunes performed by top-level Broadway performers Roger Bart, Megan Mullally, Sutton Foster the amazing Shuler Hensley as the creature, Andrea Martin, Fred Applegate, the marvelous Christopher Fitzgerald as Igor with the movable hump, and a super singing/dancing/acting chorus. There are spectacular high level razzle-dazzle lighting effects by lighting designer Peter Kaczorowski and effects designer Marc Brickman, a fabulous active set by Robin Wagner, wonderful exaggerated costumes by William Ivy Long, and lots of low-level corny humor as per usual with Brooks. The show doesn't have a lot of story, so they shoot at dazzling you with footwork and effects.
The audience loved the references to the movie, and with a strong finish, everybody thought they had a great time. And it was, indeed fun.
