Young Frankenstein

Mel Brooks Young Frankenstein is an excellent vehicle for amateur musical theatre societies with its wonderful comic characters, varied musical pastiches and delightful parody of old-fashioned horror movies. It inevitably invites comparisons to the stars of the 1974 film and needs performers who can whole heartedly embrace the outlandish characters and musical numbers with skill. Maidenhead Musical Comedy Society is fortunate to not only have strength in depth but leads who worked exceedingly well together with distinctive well-defined personas. 

The shows slick staging using full back cloth projections was very effective especially in the exterior scenes with some well-crafted practical staging of the Hay cart, Bookcase, Hermit’s hovel, and Monster’s cave as centre pieces of key scenes. The costumes too were very good especially Igor, Frau Bulcher, Kemp and the Ensemble and a wonderful seventies wig for Frankenstein. It made for a very good-looking setting for the show.

The choreography of the big musical numbers provides show stopping opportunities that are certain to bring a smile to all the audience and MMCS delivered them with excellent routines for the Brain, Please don’t touch me, It could work, Transylvania Mania and Putting on the ritz . The combination of strong casting, good staging, and attractive choreography together with an excellent musical execution makes for a first-class fun production for cast and audience.

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