Young Frankenstein / O.B.C.R.
曲目リスト
1 | Overture |
2 | The Happiest Town |
3 | The Brain |
4 | Please Don't Touch Me |
5 | Together Again |
6 | Roll In The Hay |
7 | Join The Family Business |
8 | He Vas My Boyfriend |
9 | The Law |
10 | Life, Life |
11 | Welcome To Transylvania |
12 | Transylvania Mania |
13 | He's Loose |
14 | Listen to Your Heart |
15 | Surprise |
16 | Please Send Me Someone |
17 | Man About Town |
18 | Puttin' On The Ritz (Music and Lyrics by Irving Berlin) |
19 | Deep Love |
20 | Frederick's Soliloquy |
21 | Deep Love (Reprise) |
22 | FinaleUltimo |
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ORIGINAL CAST RECORDING YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN MUSIC AND LYRICS BY MEL BROOKS -- IT'S ALIVE!
From the creators of the record-breaking Broadway sensation The Producers comes this monster new musical comedy, YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN, based on the Oscar-nominated smash-hit 1974 film. A wickedly inspired re-imagining of the Frankenstein legend based on Mel Brooks' classic comedy masterpiece, the story follows bright young Dr. Frankenstein (that's Fronkensteen) as he attempts to complete his grandfather's masterwork and bring a corpse to life. Together with his oddly shaped and endearing helper Igor (that's Eye-gor), his curvaceous lab assistant Inga, and in spite of his incredibly self-involved madcap fiance, Elizabeth, Frankenstein succeeds in creating a monster - but not without scary and quite often hilarious complications.
With such memorable tunes as "The Transylvania Mania," "He Vas My Boyfriend" and "Puttin' On The Ritz," The New MEL BROOKS Musical YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN is scientifically-proven, monstrously good entertainment...and the only place you'll witness a singing and dancing laboratory experiment in the largest tuxedo ever made. YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN features music and lyrics by the three-time Tony Award® winner Mel Brooks, book by Brooks and three-time Tony Award® winner Thomas Meehan, and is directed and choreographed by five-time Tony Award® winner Susan Stroman. The show stars Roger Bart ("Desperate Housewives"), Megan Mullally ("Will and Grace"),Tony-Award winner Sutton Foster ("Drowsy Chaperone"), SCTV's Andrea Martin and Christopher Fitzgerald ("Wicked").
YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN opens at Broadway's Hilton Theater - Friday, November 9th!
More from Mel Brooks
The Producers (Musical Highlights)
The Producers (2005 Movie Soundtrack)
The Producers (2001 Original Broadway Cast)
The Mel Brooks Collection
The History of the World, Part I
High Anxiety
Spaceballs
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Unlike The Producers, the musical version of Young Frankenstein was not met with critical adoration when it opened on Broadway in November, 2007. Mel Brooks had followed the same formula, transferring all of his own source movies famous lines and plot points to the stage, but oddly, the cast album works better than the stage production, which is indeed often lumbering. Brooks songs are still fairly derivative but here, undistracted by director Susan Stromans flat staging, you can focus more on Doug Bestermans excellent orchestrations and on the adept cast itself. As Dr. "Fronkensteen," Roger Bart is much less grating than on stage, for instance. As Inga, Sutton Foster exhibits some mad yodeling skills in "Roll in the Hay" and sounds like a classic Broadway babe on "Listen to Your Heart." Megan Mullally (Elizabeth) sells "Please Dont Touch Me," "Deep Love," and "Alone" (a bonus track cut from the show), while Andrea Martin (Frau Blucher) kills with the Brecht-Weill pastiche "He Vas My Boyfriend." And yes, Irving Berlins "Puttin' on the Ritz" is included, complete with monster grunts and a long tap passage in this extended version. The show may not be worth the hype, but the recording is a pleasant surprise. --Elisabeth Vincentelli
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ORIGINAL CAST RECORDING YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN MUSIC AND LYRICS BY MEL BROOKS -- IT'S ALIVE!
From the creators of the record-breaking Broadway sensation The Producers comes this monster new musical comedy, YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN, based on the Oscar-nominated smash-hit 1974 film. A wickedly inspired re-imagining of the Frankenstein legend based on Mel Brooks' classic comedy masterpiece, the story follows bright young Dr. Frankenstein (that's Fronkensteen) as he attempts to complete his grandfather's masterwork and bring a corpse to life. Together with his oddly shaped and endearing helper Igor (that's Eye-gor), his curvaceous lab assistant Inga, and in spite of his incredibly self-involved madcap fiance, Elizabeth, Frankenstein succeeds in creating a monster - but not without scary and quite often hilarious complications.
With such memorable tunes as "The Transylvania Mania," "He Vas My Boyfriend" and "Puttin' On The Ritz," The New MEL BROOKS Musical YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN is scientifically-proven, monstrously good entertainment...and the only place you'll witness a singing and dancing laboratory experiment in the largest tuxedo ever made. YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN features music and lyrics by the three-time Tony Awardョ winner Mel Brooks, book by Brooks and three-time Tony Awardョ winner Thomas Meehan, and is directed and choreographed by five-time Tony Awardョ winner Susan Stroman. The show stars Roger Bart ("Desperate Housewives"), Megan Mullally ("Will and Grace"),Tony-Award winner Sutton Foster ("Drowsy Chaperone"), SCTV's Andrea Martin and Christopher Fitzgerald ("Wicked").
YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN opens at Broadway's Hilton Theater - Friday, November 9th!
More from Mel Brooks
The Producers (Musical Highlights)
The Producers (2005 Movie Soundtrack)
The Producers (2001 Original Broadway Cast)
The Mel Brooks Collection
The History of the World, Part I
High Anxiety
Spaceballs
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- 製品サイズ : 12.29 x 14.1 x 1.19 cm; 106.03 g
- メーカー : Decca Broadway
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I could not have asked for a better 2nd score from Mel Brooks. Those who do not like this score are those who do not appreciate the type of musical this is-the score is similar in style to the old-0fashioned broadway sound, and some Broadway moderns just can't accept this style anymore, opting for Phantom, Sondheim or Drowsy Chaperone type scores. But this is Broadway at it's best and if you want a fun, catchy, wonderful score, I recommend this as the best original cast recording and composition in many years, way ahead of the Producers (which I loved) in brilliance.
Bravo to Mel Brooks. I was saddened to see three days ago that the American Theater Wing and the Tony Nominating board chose to completely snub this wonderful musical. I now have absolutely no doubt that the Tony Awards have taken the path of the Academy Awards and are becoming more and more political. The Producers took every single award in it's Tony year, and now they feel they must snub an even greater score. No best music nomination, no best original score, nothing for Susan Strohman, and sadly enough, no best actor nomination for lead Roger Bart. I now have a much lower view of the Tony awards and its process. Xanadu, which was nominated, was mainly NOT an original score, this was. That tells you what is happening to the Tony's and they deserve the loss in ratings they are getting every year on CBS. Sad there won't be a musical number from Young Frankenstein on the show this year.
Give this recording a chance if you love Broadway. Every time you listen to it, you will love it more. Not one song is less than terrific.
The booklet already shows that somehow, there was not so much trust in the score this time, which is why Will Friedwald, who wrote the liner notes, goes into painstaking detail to point out which songs pays tribute to what writer, song or show of musical theater glory. Also, the cast is not as outstanding as the original Broadway cast of "The Producers", even though it comprises a TV star (Megan Mullally), a new Broadway star (Sutton Foster), a long-term Broadway performer (Andrea Martin) and even a "Producers" alum (Roger Bart) - but none of them reaches the comedic brilliance of Nathan Lane. Andrea Martin does succeed more than the others; "He Vas my Boyfriend" is among the highlights of the recording. Regarding Megan Mullally, however, the CD proves once more that she was perfect as Karen on "Will & Grace" but somehow fails to impress me in other roles.
The comedy of the songs is also not on the level of "The Producers". Titles such as "The Happiest Town in Town" or "Together again for the First Time" are silly, but not funny-silly.
Will Mel Brooks author another musical? By all means, he should - but maybe, "Young Frankenstein" seemed too much of a sure thing, making it seem that less than top-notch material might work. It does not really.
The show has three strong women's parts: Inga, the sexpot, Elizabeth, Frankenstein's New York girlfriend who falls in love with the monster because of his prowess, and the gloomy, brooding housekeeper, Frau Blucher. Igor, the hunchback, becomes the doctor's lab assistant and buddy.
Since it's a Mel Brooks effort naturally there is a lot of sexual, downright crude, coarse, raunchy, bawdy but very funny stuff. It's anything for a gag which sometimes produces weak jokes. Brooks goes the extra mile to milk a joke.
The music is not particularly memorable. The songs move the plot along and delineate character. No one song pops out as a brilliant memorable single. Some are patter songs, funny tongue-twisters. One of best numbers is "Puttin' on the Ritz." The doctor and his monster in white ties, tails with canes sing and tap dance gloriously to Irving Berlin's classic. The song and dance number that Igor and the doctor do, "Together Again" is a solid musical comedy piece.
The overture on the CD sounds derivative, a compilation of familiar old-time Broadway show tunes. In the theater the overture is given short shrift and the curtain quickly rises on "The Happiest Town in Town" number. Much of the show is foolish but still hilarious.
The show and CD are delicious fun, over the top, tasteless humor at times, but whoever said that Mel Brooks in his whole brilliant career showed good taste, just witness the flatulence scene in "Blazing Saddles" that is still a classic bit of bad taste and hilarious comedy.
Some critics panned the show because they thought "The Producers" was better and didn't want Mel Brooks to have another hit. I think both shows are great. It's not fair to keep comparing the two shows. It's like comparing a bagel to an English muffin. People should really see the DVD of the Brooks movie before seeing the show or listening to this CD. I can think of a number of Broadway musicals of the last five years that have less tuneful music than this one.
On CD Roger Bart seems to be a mellower Frederick Von Fronkensteen but his singing is fine and Christopher Fitzgerald as Igor, he with the movable hump, comes across so vividly you can almost picture his performance with your minds eye. Sutton Foster-I fell in love after "Thoroughly Modern Millie" and as Inga her "Roll in the Hay" is an invitation I'd gladly accept and her yodeling is so hot it would melt the snow caps of the Alps.
There are two tricky roles that are impossible to compete with, Cloris Leachman forever owns the role of Frau Blucher but Andrea Martin aquits herself quite well and her "He Vas My Boyfriend is a hoot and a half and I admire her ability to keep a straight face singing those nutso lyrics. The second role is that of Elizabeth, Dr Frankensteins ditzy fiance. Madeline Kahn can't be topped and wisely Megan Mullaly doesn't try to but brings her own personality to the role. I must admit I was kinda impressed with her singing on her big 11 o'clock number "Deep Love" despite the fact the double entendres and innuendos were about as subtle as a ton of bricks.
So if you want to dance the new craze "The Transylvania Mania" or are just as happy to be "Puttin' On The Ritz" the Broadway Cast Cd is there to assist you. Enjoy.