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The Producers is a musical comedy with music and lyrics by Mel Brooks and a book by Brooks and Thomas Meehan.It is adapted from Brooks's 1967 film of the same name.The story concerns two theatrical producers who scheme to get rich by fraudulently overselling interests in a Broadway musical designed to fail.
Anatomy of a Hit: Long-Run Plays on Broadway from 1900 to the Present Day. New York: Hawthorn Books, 1966. Schildcrout, Jordan. In the Long Run: A Cultural History of Broadway's Hit Plays. New York and London: Routledge, 2019. Sheward, David. It's a Hit!: The Back Stage Book of Longest-Running Broadway Shows, 1884 to the Present. New York: Back ...
The musical premiered off-Broadway in 2003 at the York Theatre. It again played off-Broadway in 2005 at the Dodger Stages V with the same cast. It also had a production on London's West End, in Australia (Canberra - 2009 and February 2010) as well as numerous productions in U.S. regional theaters and in Canada.
The Office! A Musical Parody: 2018 Off-Broadway: Assaf Gleizner Bob and Tobly McSmith Bob and Tobly McSmith A musical parody of the television series The Office. [1] Oh, Boy! 1917 Broadway: Jerome Kern: Guy Bolton and P. G. Wodehouse: Bolton Wodehouse Notable song: "Till the Clouds Roll By". Oh! Calcutta! 1969 Off-Broadway revue
The following is a list of the top 25 highest-grossing Broadway musicals since 1982, based on data collected by the Broadway League. These grosses do not take into account the effects of inflation and as such the list is heavily skewed in favor of more recent Broadway shows.
Michael Bennett (April 8, 1943 – July 2, 1987) was an American musical theatre director, writer, choreographer, and dancer. He won seven Tony Awards for his choreography and direction of Broadway shows and was nominated for an additional eleven. Bennett choreographed Promises, Promises, Follies and Company.
A Bronx Tale is a musical based on the play by the same name with a book by Chazz Palminteri, music by Alan Menken, and lyrics by Glenn Slater.After a ten-year development process, the original one man show was adapted into a new musical and premiered at the Paper Mill Playhouse in Millburn, New Jersey on February 4, 2016, before opening on Broadway December 1 later that year.
Curtains is a musical mystery comedy with a book by Rupert Holmes, lyrics by Fred Ebb, and music by John Kander, with additional lyrics by Kander and Holmes.. Based on the original book and concept of the same name by Peter Stone, the musical is a send-up of backstage murder mystery plots, set in 1959 Boston, Massachusetts, and follows the fallout when Jessica Cranshaw, the supremely ...