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Roger Bart relishing “Frankenstein”

Stroman says she always wanted Bart to play the Ivy League-educated Frederick Frankenstein, a man with his own set of peculiarities.

“Roger is a leading man but he is also a character actor - he can straddle both sides,” the director says. “Dr. Frankenstein needs to carry the show, but he also has to have that crazy, mad-scientist side.”

As Brooks, who wrote the show’s score and co-authored its book, puts it: “He always sticks to the character - and within it, he’s dazzling.”

Stroman, who first made a name for herself as the choreographer of such shows as “Crazy for You” and the 1994 revival of “Show Boat,” also praises Bart’s physicality.

“He’s a very good dancer and has a fearless quality about him, which I love. He’s up for trying anything. His movement is very much in character. He moves like you think an upper-class Yale graduate would move. He also understands the time period of the 1930s (which is when ‘Young Frankenstein’ is set).”

Bart tries not to think - or read about - about the hype that has followed “Young Frankenstein” to Broadway after its summer tryout in Seattle.

“Susan and I work as hard as we can,” he says. “We’re pretty rational about it. We just want to put on a great show and make it the best it can possibly be.”