Meet Jeff Whiting the Director of La Mirada Theatre‘s production of Mel Brooks’ Young Frankenstein. The Southern California premiere of the newly revised London production runs from September 16th through October 9th. One thing that makes this production really unique is that they are using the London script with the Broadway set. It also includes new scenes and new songs. Even if you have seen the Young Frankenstein production before, you’re going to get a whole new version here at the La Mirada Theatre.
Whiting is a director and choreographer with work on Broadway, television, special events, and concerts around the world. Broadway (Associate): Bullets Over Broadway, The Scottsboro Boys, Hair, Young Frankenstein, Big Fish. Upcoming: Love Affair, Crazy For You, Marie: Dancing Still, In The Light, Loch Lomond, The Imaginary, Tribu, Cookies, Invincible, Joan Crawford in Flesh and Blood. National Tours: Bullets Over Broadway, Hairspray, The Producers, Young Frankenstein, The Rockin’ Road to Dublin, Louis and Ella. Off-Broadway and Others: Hairspray (NSMT), the world premiere of Fly More Than You Fall, The Lost Colony(Waterside), Cookies (NYMF), Single Wide (NYMF), the world premiere of Chasing Rainbows, Gypsy (Capital). Special Events/Concerts: James Taylor Live at Carnegie Hall with Bette Midler, Sting, Tony Bennett, The New Victory Arts Awards with Sarah Jessica Parker, John Lithgow, Disney’s Magical Moments (Brazil). BUSINESS: Jeff is the creator and founder of Stage Write Software, the standard method for documenting choreography, the Founding Artistic Director of The Open Jar Institute, a premiere music theatre training program, and President of Open Jar Studios, and was featured in a TED Talk sharing his philosophy on “Open Jar Thinking”.
From the creators of the record-breaking Broadway sensation, The Producers, La Mirada Theatre brings you legendary actress, Sally Struthers (“All In The Family,” “Gilmore Girls”) starring as “Frau Blücher” in the Southern California Premiere production of the newly revised, London version of this monstrously entertaining musical comedy. This electrifying musical stage adaptation of Mel Brooks’ brilliantly funny film will leave you in stitches! Frederick Frankenstein, grandson of the infamous inventor Doctor Frankenstein, reluctantly inherits the family estate in Transylvania. With the help of a hunchbacked sidekick named Igor and lab assistant Inga, Frederick finds himself following in the mad-scientist tradition of his ancestor, creating a monster for this century. When the monster escapes, hilarity abounds. London reviewers called it “a love letter to American vaudeville” and “an evening of gloriously impure fun.”
Please Note: For mature audiences – with a sense of humor! Contains mature humor, adult language, sexual situations, and innuendo.
Post-Show discussions with the cast will be Thursdays, Sept. 22nd and Oct. 6th. Open-Captioned performance on Saturday, Oct. 1st at 2 pm.
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