Ore Oduba to star in Young Frankenstein
- Alan Hulme
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Ore Oduba will star as Dr Frederick Frankenstein in the regional premiere of Mel Brooks’ Young Frankenstein The Musical at Hope Mill Theatre in Manchester (October 10-November 30).
Actor and broadcaster Ore's stage credits include Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and Pretty Woman: The Musical. . He also played Brad Majors in the 50th anniversary production of The Rocky Horror Show, as well as Teen Angel in Grease, and the principal role in the world premiere of the Peter James’ thriller Picture You Dead. Ore won Strictly Come Dancing in 2016. As an experienced and versatile presenter he is now familiar to audiences of This Morning, The One Show and BBC Radio 2, and has fronted some of our biggest national events.
About Young Frankenstein, he said: “Mel Brooks is a genius of comedy and Young Frankenstein is as iconic a title as it gets. I watched the most recent production in the West End through tears of laughter and can’t wait to start Putting on the Ritz. It’s going to be an unforgettable eight weeks in Manchester.”
Adapted by Mel Brooks from his 1974 film, starring Gene Wilder in the role now taken by Ore, Young Frankenstein tells the story of the brilliant surgeon-grandson of the infamous Victor Frankenstein, who inherits his family's estate in Transylvania and finds some of his grandfather's old journals - including one titled "How I did it"...
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