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Mel Brooks' new musical - the monster-sized Young Frankenstein- made its world premiere at the Paramount Theatre Aug. 7, as it kicked off its pre-Broadway run in Seattle.

The much-anticipated tuner stars Roger Bart in the title role, and boasts an impressive ensemble including Megan Mullally (Elizabeth), Sutton Foster (Inga), Andrea Martin (Frau Blucher), Shuler Hensley (The Monster), Christopher Fitzgerald (Igor) and Fred Applegate (Kemp).

The show continues out-of-town through Sept. 1, en route to Broadway's Hilton Theatre, where it begins previews Oct. 11. Here's a look at Young Frankenstein, currently playing at Seattle's Paramount Theatre, and opening on Broadway Nov. 8.

Based on the Oscar-nominated 1974 film, Young Frankenstein is Mel Brooks' comic re-imagining of the Mary Shelley classic. When Frederick Frankenstein, an esteemed New York brain surgeon and professor, inherits a castle and laboratory in Transylvania from his grandfather, deranged genius Victor Von 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? Unfolding in the forbidding Castle Frankenstein and the foggy moors of Transylvania Heights, the show's raucous score includes "The Transylvania Mania," "He Vas My Boyfriend" and Irving Berlin's "Puttin' On the Ritz."

Young Frankenstein features a book by three-time Tony Award winner Mel Brooks and three-time Tony Award winner Thomas Meehan and music and lyrics by Brooks.