Starring: - Shuler Hensley
- Ivan Rutherford
- Rita Harvey
Description:
1793. North of the Arctic Circle, a sailing vessel comes upon a man adrift on a floe of ice, "a wretch... near death." He is Victor Frankenstein, and he proceeds to tell the ship's captain the horrifying tale of his twisted life... Victor is the scion of a prominent family of Geneva, Switzerland, where he enjoyed a childhood of wealth, privilege and indulgence. As a young boy, he exhibits a brilliant mind and a gift for the natural sciences, and is his parents' greatest joy and pride. Their family soon swells to include Elizabeth -- an abandoned waif whom Victor's parents take in as their ward -- and later William, Victor's much-younger brother. Victor's brother in spirit is Henry Clerval, his boyhood friend, and he, Victor, and Elizabeth forge deep bonds of friendship from their earliest days. Victor's thirst for knowledge leads him on a quest to master the secrets of life and death. A tragic event galvanizes his sense of mission: His beloved mother perishes of scarlet fever -- but not before uttering her fondest wish: that Victor and Elizabeth one day be married. Victor ventures off to the University at Ingolstadt, Germany -- the finest school of the sciences in Europe -- vowing to return to Elizabeth to fulfill the promise of a life together. At the University, Victor's ideas for unlocking the mysteries of life are met with scorn and ridicule, but he vows to continue his quest in secrecy. In the public hanging of a criminal he finds the primary vessel of his grand experiment. He claims the body of the condemned man, and his work is begun. For many months, he toils in a clandestine laboratory to create what he hopes will be the perfect human -- a giant, fashioned from the finest limbs and organs Victor could purloin from the gallows and graveyards. Then, one November night, he harnesses the awesome force of an electrical storm to breath life into his "creation." But when his creature comes to life, it is not as the perfect human he envisioned, but as a hideous beast. Thus begins the timeless, cautionary tale of Victor Frankenstein, whose noble dreams of grandeur unleash instead a litany of terror and tragedy. Before it is done, everything in his privileged world will be torn asunder, as Victor and his Creature are pit against one another in an epic and deadly war of wills that will lead them across the continent and ultimately to the barren ends of the world. A story of life, love, Promethean dreams, and Faustian horror, Frankenstein explores the full gamut of human experience like no other tale ever written. Forget all you have seen in the movies -- this is not Hollywood's nightmare of lumbering ghouls and wild-eyed maniacs. This is Mary Shelley's original, brilliant, romantic terror -- a dark vision of what lies at the depths of the human soul and what happens when it is unleashed.
1. Amen
2. This Golden Age
3. Misguided Mission
4. Birth To My Creation
5. The Lab
6. Dear Victor
7. Once Upon A Time
8. The Creature’s Tale
9. Music is Love
10. The Creature’s Tale (Part 2)
11. Why?
12. The Brides
13. A Blessed Day
14. The Modern Prometheus
15. What Have You Done?
16. The Workings of The Heart
17. Why? (Reprise)
18. A Father’s Love
19. The Chase
20. The Coming of The Dawn
21. Amen (Reprise)
Frankenstein The Musical
