Kid Frankenstein
Kid Frankenstein
In Kid Frankenstein The Musical, it's Halloween and something weird is going on at Frankie Steiner's house. Day and night, the boy genius works on his entry for the annual robotics competition. But what he creates is more than he expected - and more than he can handle, making him a true Kid Frankenstein.
Book and Lyrics by Peter Charles Morris, Music by David Mallamud
Licensing available through Childrens Theater Company’s Plays for New Audiences
DEMOS
CHARACTER BREAKDOWN
CAST (3 men, 2 women)
Frankie Steiner, an 11-year old genius
Mrs. Steiner/Audrey/Chorus
The Monster / Dr. Polimorfus / Voice of Frankenstein/Chorus
Louis /Voice of Igor/Chorus
Sarabeth /Chorus
CREATIVE TEAM
Peter Charles Morris (Book & Lyrics)
Peter is the co-author and co-lyricist of Howard Crabtree's Whoop-Dee- Doo!, winner of the 1994 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Musical Revue. In 2006, He co-authored the book for off-Broadway's Shout! The Mod Musical. His musicalization of The Adventures of Mottel, based on Sholom Aleichem's last book, was commissioned by the Kaufman Cultural Arts Center of New York and performed at Merkin Hall. Other produced works include Frankly, Scarlett, a farce co-authored with Phillip George, about the making of Gone with the Wind; The Remarkable Ruth Fields, a musical comedy about the trials and tribulations of a bearded lady, which received five 1992 Backstage Bistro Awards; Listen to the Wind, the 1995 revival of the 1955 British musical for which he fashioned a new libretto; Escape from Pterodactyl Island, seen on the London Fringe and at the NY Fringe Festival; and High Hair & Jalapenos, an original musical revue lampooning Texas. His musical version of William Makepeace Thackeray's fairy tale novella The Rose and the Ring premiered in London in December 2001, and had an international tour of Canada, England and Australia in 2004. He has written numerous one-act plays, winning the Tennessee Williams One-Act Play Competition for The World's Longest Kiss. His full-length play No Place Like Homepremiered at South Carolina's Trustus Theatre in 2004. He served as script consultant for My Favorite Broadway: The Love Songs, which was performed at NY's City Center and subsequently aired on PBS. Mr. Morris is an alumnus of the BMI Advanced Musical Theatre Workshop.
David Mallamud (Music)
David Mallamud is an Emmy-nominee, a MacDowell, Dramatist Guild, and Leonard Bernstein Fellow (Tanglewood), and a recipient of two Morton Gould awards from ASCAP and a Charles I'ves Scholarship from The American Academy of Arts and Letters. His credits include: orchestrations, arrangements, and additional music for Mike Mills' (of REM) Concerto for Violin, Rock Band, and Orchestra (for Robert McDuffie), and A Night of Georgia Music (PBS, Emmy for best long-form entertainment); R.E.M. Explored (Atlanta Symphony, St. Louis Symphony); Dr. Seuss' The Sneetches: The Musical (written with Playwright Philip Dawkins, Children's Theater Company, MN); Flight School: The Musical (several Off-Broadway runs, Chinese, and US tours), Kid Frankenstein (Off-Broadway, Millbrook Playhouse), Spittoonia on the Erie (written with Nathan Christensen, currently in development with Northern Sky Theater). Upcoming projects include: an untitled musical with Craig Lucas, O with Daniel Levin, The Curse of The Ratman with Trav SD; and a recording of the musical Off on a Comet (written with Nathan Christensen) with Kelli O'Hara, Heidi Blickenstaff, Santino Fontana, Natalie Weiss, and Jason Gotay. Please visit davidmallamud.com
CONTACT
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