May 15: Roll, roll, roll in ze hay

Well, if you know even just a little bit about me and Victor, it's that we're unabashed fans of Broadway musicals. Both of our moms played soundtracks to all the big ones from the 60s and 70s at home and in the car when we were young, so blame them.

And if you know just a little bit more about us it's that we adored The Producers. We saw it once on tour in Seattle, and again when it had a long run in Hollywood, starring Jason Alexander and Martin Short. Fab. You. Luss.

Well, you can imagine our joy when we heard that Mel Brooks is working on a musical version of his film "Young Frankenstein" with the same collaborators he had on The Producers. And you can imagine that joy multiplied by millions when I received an e-mail yesterday that offered tickets to see said musical in Seattle during its preview run this summer.

Based on the smash hit 1974 film, YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN is the wickedly inspired re-imagining of the Mary Shelley classic from the comic genius of Mel Brooks. When Frederick Frankenstein, an esteemed New York brain surgeon and professor, inherits a castle and laboratory in Transylvania from his grandfather, deranged genius Victor van Frankenstein, he faces a dilemma. Does he continue to run from his family’s tortured past or does he stay in Transylvania to carry on his grandfather’s mad experiments reanimating the dead and, in the process, fall in love with his sexy lab assistant Inga?

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 only big name confirmed in the cast so far is Megan Mullally. She'll play the Teri Garr role, Inga.

Tickets go on sale to the general public sometime in June, but I bought ours this morning (one of the benefits to being a season ticket holder). Happy Birthday, Victor! We're seeing the show in early August.