Based on Mary Shelley’s novel, FRANKENSTEIN is a sweeping romantic musical about the human need for love and companionship.
Faithful to Mary Shelley’s novel, tSirota’s empathetic and articulate Creature is not a “new take” on Frankenstein; it is the story Mary Shelley wrote. The humanity at the heart of her novel that has often been lost is reinstated in Sirota’s musical adaptation. Having lost his mother at a young age, Victor Frankenstein seeks to end human mortality and arrogantly enters territory beyond his control. While he enjoys unconditional love from Elizabeth, he grants none to his creation.
Written and composed by Eric B. Sirota, this thought-provoking adaptation with passionate melodies and a “Phantom-like” award-winning score, first appeared onstage Off-Broadway in NY in 2017, and ran for 3 years until the pandemic. Then re-conceived for the screen and directed by Joe LoBianco, it has gone on to win numerous film festival awards, including over 40 for Best Original Score!
Eric B. Sirota is a composer/playwright, having written five full-length musicals. He is also a highly published research scientist with a PhD in Physics. His musical, Frankenstein, played Off-Broadway for 3 year, and was recently adapted as a movie musical garnering numerous film festival awards including 35 for Best Original Score. His musical Your Name on My Lips, an original love story, had two productions at the Theater for the New City, where Sirota was a resident playwright. Go, My Child had staged readings at the Actor’s Temple Theatre, and is slated for a 2026 production. In 2019, he was the recipient of a grant to attend the Chateau Orquevaux residency where he wrote A Good Day (music, memory, and old flame, and Alzheimer’s), which had a successful developmental production by the Shawnee Playhouse and won BroadwayWorld’s regional Best New Play or Musical award. As composer he wrote the music for the musical comedy A Day at the White House, which was recorded as a radio podcast. Other major works include The Flemington Oratorio and a dramatic musical setting of Unetane Tokef. Eric is married to the artist Cara London.