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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. Complications arise when the show ...
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.
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] They are both flamboyantly gay and they love to flounce around their Upper East Side ...
A major revival of Mel Brooks’ Tony Award-winning musical “The Producers” is set to open this winter under the direction of Patrick Marber at London’s Menier Chocolate Factory. “The ...
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.
The musical premiered at the La Jolla Playhouse on February 19, 2023, and closed April 9, 2023, after extending a week due to high ticket sales. [9] The principal cast included Brody Grant as Ponyboy Curtis, Sky Lakota-Lynch as Johnny Cade, Ryan Vasquez as Darrell Curtis, and Jason Schmidt as Sodapop Curtis.
It’s a dramatic way to sell a new Broadway show. The Longacre Theatre is getting a high art overhaul as the home of “Lempicka,” a new musical about Polish painter Tamara de Lempicka. The ...