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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.
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.
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.
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.
Wicked is a musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz and a book by Winnie Holzman.It is a loose adaptation of the 1995 Gregory Maguire novel Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West, which in turn is based on L. Frank Baum's 1900 novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and its 1939 film adaptation.
The Fantasticks is a 1960 musical with music by Harvey Schmidt and book and lyrics by Tom Jones.It tells an allegorical story, loosely based on the 1894 play The Romancers (Les Romanesques) by Edmond Rostand, concerning two neighboring fathers who trick their children, Luisa and Matt, into falling in love by pretending to feud.
Six (stylised in all caps) is a British musical comedy in the style of a pop concert. Its music, book, and lyrics were written by Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss. [1] It is a modern retelling of the lives of the six wives of Henry VIII, presented in the form of a singing competition.
Ragtime is a musical with music by Stephen Flaherty, lyrics by Lynn Ahrens, and a book by Terrence McNally.It is based on the 1975 novel of the same name by E.L. Doctorow. ...