Young Frankenstein is staying alive a little longer in Corpus Christi.<\/p>\n
Aurora Arts Theatre has added two more performances of the Mel Brooks musical after the production sold out its first six weekends, according to the show’s directors.<\/p>\n
The newly added performances are Friday, Aug. 28, and Saturday, Aug. 29, giving people who have been unable to get tickets another chance to see the show.<\/p>\n
“Because of the popularity of it and the sold-out shows, we have added two more dates,” director Laurie Guajardo-Hoefelmeyer told 3NEWS First Edition on Thursday. “For everybody who’s on the waitlist and who felt like, ‘I missed out on something and I didn’t get a chance,’ now you have one.”<\/p>\n
Hoefelmeyer said she was excited about bringing Young Frankenstein to the stage but didn’t anticipate how strongly audiences would respond.<\/p>\n
“I didn’t realize how well it was going to translate to the community,” Hoefelmeyer said. “You put on a great story with some great actors and you put a little bit of horror and a lot of comedy in it, per Mel Brooks, and you got some magic.”<\/p>\n
Music director Nicholas Mendleski said the stage production is much more of a musical than people familiar only with the movie may expect.<\/p>\n
“It’s way different than the movie,” Mendleski said. “There is song after song after song.” Mendleski said the production includes the iconic “Puttin’ on the Ritz,” along with a mix of musical styles ranging from jazz and barbershop to yodeling.<\/p>\n
The production still has its previously scheduled performances on Aug. 21 at 7:30 p.m., Aug. 22 at 7:30 p.m. and Aug. 23 at 2:30 p.m. before returning for the two newly added shows Aug. 28 and 29.<\/p>\n
Performances are held at Aurora Arts Theatre, 5635 Everhart Road, Suite B, in Corpus Christi.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Young Frankenstein is staying alive a little longer in Corpus Christi. Aurora Arts Theatre has added two more…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":412638,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[86332,155,157,156,143990,143989,25012,122720,132283],"class_list":["post-412637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-corpus-christi","tag-aurora-arts-theatre","tag-corpus-christi","tag-corpus-christi-headlines","tag-corpus-christi-news","tag-laurie-guajardo-hoefelmeyer","tag-mel-brooks","tag-performances","tag-stage-production","tag-young-frankenstein"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=412637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412637\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/412638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=412637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=412637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}