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The Producers is a 1967 American satirical black comedy film. It was written and directed by Mel Brooks, and stars Zero Mostel, Gene Wilder, Dick Shawn, and Kenneth Mars.The film is about a con artist theater producer and his accountant who scheme to get rich by fraudulently overselling interests in a stage musical designed to fail.
He is played by Andreas Voutsinas in the 1967 film. In the 2001 Broadway show The Producers and the 2005 musical film The Producers he is played by Roger Bart. The character is named after the Karmann Ghia, marketed from 1955 to 1974 by Volkswagen. [2] Carmen Ghia is Roger De Bris' "common-law assistant". [3]
The play starts with the musical number, "Springtime for Hitler".Accompanied by dancing stormtroopers, who at one point form a Busby Berkeley–style swastika, [2] the play immediately horrifies everyone in the audience except the author, and one lone viewer who breaks into applause—only for the latter to get pummeled by other disgusted theatergoers.
"Springtime for Hitler" is a song written and composed by Mel Brooks for his 1968 film The Producers. [1] [2]In the original film, the 2001 musical, and 2005 film adaptation, the song is part of the stage musical titled Springtime for Hitler, which the two protagonists produce on Broadway.
The Producers: Susan Stroman: December 16, 2005 Universal Pictures Columbia Pictures $38,058,335: Musical comedy 50% [14] 2022: Paws of Fury: The Legend of Hank: Rob Minkoff Mark Koetsier July 15, 2022 Paramount Pictures $42,426,743 Animated action comedy 54%
During the 1960s, he played small roles in madcap comedies, usually portraying caricatures of counterculture personalities, such as the hedonistic but mother-obsessed Sylvester Marcus in It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963), and the hippie actor Lorenzo Saint DuBois ("L.S.D.") in The Producers (1967). Besides his film work, he appeared in ...
The Producers is a 2005 American musical comedy film directed by Susan Stroman, and written by Mel Brooks and Thomas Meehan based on the eponymous 2001 Broadway musical, which in turn was based on Brooks's 1967 film of the same name.
Brooks receiving a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2010. Mel Brooks is an actor, comedian, and filmmaker of the stage, television, and screen. He started his work as a comedy writer, actor, and then director of 11 feature films including The Producers (1967), Young Frankenstein (1974), and Blazing Saddles (1974).