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Green Bay native Anne Horak, playing the female lead in the touring production of 'The New Mel Brooks Musical Young Frankenstein,' is appearing through Dec.

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'I wanna be a Producer...' That's what everyone will be singing after experiencing the EPAC Repertory Company's production of Mel Brooks' 12-time Tony Award winning hit The Producers.

Bill Shepard, a casting director who worked for Walt Disney Studios and director Mel Brooks, died Sept.

Maybe only in a Mel Brooks comedy, Shuler Hensley said. "You've got this grotesque, larger-than-life creature," the actor who plays said creature in the touring production of the musical Young Frankenstein said, "and he's pretty much the straight man." Even better? "Because of the script, the straighter you try to play it against the obvious ...

Your email has been sent. Thanks for recommending The Daily Beast! Everett Collection Where has all the ugly gone? The Daily Beast's Simon Doonan praises the Young Frankenstein star for his magnificent hideousness.

Old-fashioned musical comedy is on shamelessly suggestive display in Young Frankenstein.

One of my all-time favorite movies is the 1968 Mel Brooks comedy "The Producers," and this probably explains the soft spot I've always held in my heart for impresarios.

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Mel Brooks' fixation on "Frankenstein" began when he was still in kneepants. "I must have been just five or six when I first saw the movie [James Whale's 1931 classic, "Frankenstein"], and it left an indelible impression on me," Brooks recalled during a recent chat.

So you get a collection of Mel Brooks movies and missing from it is "The Producers." But never fear: You still are going to get some classics, including the underrated and rarely available "The Twelve Chairs." Unlike "History of the World: Part I" or "High Anxiety," which are hilarious if you are a Brooks fan but may not be to everybody's taste, ...

The swastika is raised in the Cultural Quarter, but only in the name of comedy as a cult classic comes to the local stage, writes Alan Cookman NAZI stormtroopers will tap dance across the stage of The Regent Theatre next week in the show that brought Nuremberg to Broadway.

Shuler Hensley plays the monster and Roger Bart plays young Dr. Frederick Frankenstein in the musical version of "Young Frankenstein," which comes Tuesday to Chicago.

I love a good funny movie, I mean who doesn't? I am going to list ten of my all time favorite comedies.

Get your ghoul on this weekend with a horror lineup that includes an academy event and a graveside screening.

If ever there were a Broadway overachiever, it is Mel Brooks a outlandish a oeThe Producers,a a musical adaptation of his 1968 film comedy that starred Zero Mostel and Gene Wilder .

Young Frankenstein will be presented at 8 p.m. Wednesday through Friday, 2 and 8 p.m. Saturday and 1 and 6:30 p.m. Sunday in the Ohio Theatre, 55 E. State St.

Frankenstein has always been one of the more lovable monsters out there. It's hard to resist an enormous, funny-looking, green guy who doesn't say much.

Opening night in 2007: Young Frankenstein actor Shuler Hensley, left, shakes hands with Mel Brooks.

Comical Processing cartoons provide a much-needed break for you and me. Mel Brooks said, "Humor is just another defense against the universe." I believe him.