Lexie Dorsett is a lucky girl.

A year after graduating from the University of Cinncinati’s College-Conservatory of Music, she was working regularly as an actor.

Last month she got her first tour — “Young Frankenstein” as Elizabeth, Frankenstein’s fiancee.

“I’m having a fantastic time,” she said while traveling on the bus Monday. The cast was going to the show’s next theater (College Station, Texas). “It’s been fun. It is an interesting process, learning how to conserve your energy during the day and performing at night.

“It’s been a great experience thus far.”

Dorsett and her cast mates will perform in the Bill Heard Theatre Tuesday and Wednesday, with both shows starting at 7:30 p.m.

Dorsett said one of the best things is sharing the experience with her best friend, Christopher Timson, who is playing Igor, Frankenstein’s assistant.

Timson is also Dorsett’s roommate in New York.

“It’s a happy blessing,” she said.

Originally from Birmingham, the closest the show will come to her hometown is a stop Monday in Huntsville.

“A lot of my family will be coming,” she said. “Some of my teachers, too. I’ll have a big fan base coming to Huntsville.”

The tour will end next May, and then it’s back to auditioning for shows back in New York.

“Young Frankenstein” is about Frederick Frankenstein, who is the original Dr. Frankenstein’s grandson. The young Frankenstein begins to continue his grandfather’s experiment to reanimate a corpse.

Dorsett said you don’t have to be familiar with Mel Brooks’ 1974 movie.

“My father had never seen the movie and he loved it,” she said.

But she can tell which audience members do know the movie because they respond before the musical numbers or lines are performed.

Theater-goers should “come ready to laugh,” she said. “It’s a tribute to the movie.”

Every audience is different, she said. Dorsett said the cast has kind of figured out where to freeze, which allows the audience to laugh.

As a child, Dorsett said she grew up with different interests.

She played on a traveling softball team, played violin for 10 years and painted.

Finally, her parents told her that she had to choose something.

“I decided to focus on theater. My family is pretty musical and my parents were very supportive.”

In the seventh grade, she discovered that she could major in musical theater.

When she was a high shool junior, she showed her parents a list of schools that she might want to attend.

CCM was at the top of the list. She was accepted and on her way to become a triple threat.

Dorsett was successful at CCM.

“I had a really special senior year of college,” she said. “I played Sheila in ‘Hair’ and Reno Sweeney in ‘Anything Goes.’ Those were special productions.”

Even though she’s met some of her goals like graduating from college, working in regional theater and now on her first national tour, she still has aspirations of doing a show on Broadway.

“I’m still pinching myself,” she said. “It’s been amazing.”

The toughest part of touring, she’s learned is “adjusting to the grueling schedule. Sometimes we’re on the bus for eight hours and then we do a performance. Eating right is pretty difficult. I just order a salad and try to eat some vegetables. “I’m adjusting to life on the bus. I’m confident that I’ll get my groove. We’ve only been out a month.”

When they get to Columbus next week, she said she won’t be surprised to see her mother.

“My mom is my biggest fan.”