Don’t cry for Cloris Leachman. The 82-year-old screen legend eliminated on last night’s Dancing With The Stars Results Show, but her buzzed-about staying power and self-confessed “cutting up” on the dance floor has Broadway producer Mel Brooks offering Cloris a role in the theater production of Young Frankenstein.

Last year, Brooks told Cloris that she was too old for the role of Frau Bluche, the character she originated opposite Gene Wilder in Brooks’ 1974 movie. The producer claimed at 81 Cloris lacked the “stamina” to put on eight Broadway shows a week.

But after watching the Oscar-winning actress hoff it up for six weeks on DWTS, Mel’s singing a different tune about casting Cloris in Young Frankenstein.

“Mel has reached out to Leachman to see if they could make a deal – which I’m sure has nothing to do with the show’s somewhat soft box office,” a spy tells BillyMasters.com.