This fall ABC will debut “Young Frankenstein Live!” as its next live musical event, produced by the show’s creator Mel Brooks, reports Deadline from the TCA Winter Press Tour in Pasadena today.
Based on the 2007 Broadway stage version of the Brooks-Gene Wilder classic 1974 film comedy Young Frankenstein, the live TV musical will feature music from the stage adaptation composed by Brooks. Cast and airdate forthcoming.
Broadway’s Young Frankenstein musical, with a book by Brooks and Thomas Meehan, and music and lyrics by Brooks, opened on Broadway Nov. 8, 2007, closing Jan. 4, 2009.
Young Frankenstein (1974) starred Gene Wilder as an American grandson of the infamous scientist, struggling to prove that his grandfather was not as insane as people believe. He is invited to Transylvania, where he discovers the process that reanimates a dead body.