Schools
'Young Frankenstein' the Musical Coming to High School Stage
Three shows of 'The New Mel Brooks Musical Young Frankenstein' will be performed by the East Providence High School Theater Troop April 4-6.
"The New Mel Brooks Musical Young Frankenstein" comes to the stage at East Providence High School this week.
The Theater Troop performs three shows on Thursday, Friday and Saturday evening, April 4-6. The Thursday show starts at 7 pm. The weekend shows start at 8 pm.
Advanced tickets are $6 for students and $15 for adults. All tickets at the door are $20.
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The stage play is an adaptation of Mel Brooks's "Young Frankenstein" 1974 movie. It ran for almost 500 shows on Broadway in 2007.
Theater teacher MaryAnn Lasorsa decided the play would be a great show to bring to East Providence High School because is was extremely funny, real slaptsick humor. It will be the final production of Jim Manchester, the troop's stage director, who is retiring.
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Lead characters are Benjamin Church as Frederick Frankenstein; Matthew Fagan as Frankenstein's monster; Dean Hernandez as Igor, Frankenstein's sidekick; Lauren Potheir as Inga, his lab assistant; Patti Laliberte as Elizabeth Benning, Frankenstein's girlfriend until the monster moves in, and Monica Bostic as Frau Bleucher, mistress of the Transylvanian castle.
See the video to give you some idea what you will see on stage this weekend.
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