What Is The Most Famous Frankenstein Musical?

With earnest ballads and soaring ensemble numbers, Frankenstein – A New Musical, a tragic love story and exploration of humanity, breathes new life into the world-renowned story of man and creator pitted against one another in epic battle. In his quest to discover the secret of life, Victor Frankenstein, a brilliant young scientist, challenges the laws of nature and mortality and creates a human of his own design that turns out to instead be a horrifying beast — a creature thirsting for revenge upon the creator who abandoned him.
The musical’s creators have pointedly said that their goal was to return the story to its uncorrupted roots in the Shelley novel. First published over two centuries ago, the book has long been a staple of English lit classes, hailed as a dark twist on the classic creation myth and as a potent exploration of the troubling conflict between man’s desire for knowledge and the hubris that blinds him to the potential consequences of that quest. his is a fresh look at Mary Shelley’s original, brilliant, romantic terror — a dark vision of what lies at the depths of the human soul and what happens when its full power is unleashed.