Pure joy! That's the overriding feeling this merry bunch of critics are feeling after a night out at the theatre! After a successful out of town try-out, the raucous YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN (based on the 1974 film of the same name) had its long-awaited opening in London's West End on 10 October 2017 and if the reviews we woke up to are anything to go by, it's going to be a big success.
We've rounded up the best reviews from press night along with cool features, behind-the-scenes video clips and interviews from the red (sorry...green!) carpet...
Overnight reviews
The Guardian - ★★★★★
Michael Billington: It offers two-and-a-half hours of time-suspending pleasure and shows that the 91-year-old Brooks, present on the first night, remains a bawdily parodic Peter Pan...
Radio Times - ★★★★★
Tony Peters: Young Frankenstein arrives in London in a full-on, flat-out hilarious romp with a cast at the top of its game who just revel in playing everything larger than life — just the way Brook’s brand of comedy demands...
London Theatre - ★★★★★
Mark Shenton: It's sole function is to be a laughter generator; and as such, it is thoroughly successful, as I just couldn't stop laughing...Here is a show in a vaudevillian music hall tradition that's very legible to British audiences, steeped as we are in pantomime, yet also executed with real Broadway theatrical aplomb...
The Telegraph - ★★★★
Dominic Cavendish: Show-stealing turns wherever you look: Lesley Joseph as the hatchet-faced castle-keeper Frau Blucher, Dianne Pilkington as Frederick’s tactility-averse sweetheart, Summer Strallen a yodelling hoot as the buxom and obliging Inga
Evening Standard - ★★★★
Henry Hitchings: Laughs abound, not least when the Monster dons a top hat and tails to launch into Irving Berlin’s Puttin’ on the Ritz...it's hard not to succumb to the infectious daftness of this escapist crowd-pleaser...
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Libby Purves: Whatever your doubts about making musicals out of beloved films, this one pretty much works just as well as The Producers did before it. Sometimes you just want a bit of fun...
Features
Go behind the scenes of Young Frankenstein rehearsals & cast photoshoot
We've pulled together some awesome behind the scenes footage of the cast in rehearsals, interviews and a look behind the scenes of the photo shoot. Plus, some fun tweets from the cast...
First Night Takeover: Young Frankenstein at the Garrick
Our StageFaves vlogger Perry O'Bree was back in the West End for the opening night of the Mel Brooks musical YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN (10 October 2017) and didn't stop laughing all night...
On StageFaves
Head to the YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN show page to keep up with all the gossip and #GetSocial with the cast...
