Music & Lyrics by Mel Brooks, Book by Mel Brooks & Tom Meehan
Directed & Choreographed by Susan Stroman
Synopsis: Mel Brooks' 1968 cult film has finally made it to Broadway! The Producers follows two Broadway producers as they execute a most unique plan: to sell 25,000 percent of a new show, have it fail miserably, and quietly collect the money after the show closes. To ensure their success, they hire the worst of the worst to mount Springtime for Hitler, a "gay romp with Adolph and Eva at Berchtesgaden." The perfect scheme ends in disaster as Springtime for Hitler becomes the last thing anyone expected it to be: a hit!
NEW YORK TIMES:
"HOW do you single out highlights in a bonfire? Everybody who sees ''The Producers'' -- and that should be as close to everybody as the St. James Theater allows -- is going to be hard-pressed to choose one favorite bit from the sublimely ridiculous spectacle that opened last night. "
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NEW YORK POST:
"A funny thing happened to the Mel Brooks musical on its way to Broadway's record books: After critical raves Max himself couldn't have bought and tickets as hot as the Sahara, the temperature at the St. James Theatre appears subject to global cooling. "
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TIME:
"Like so many blockbusters in other media, it's important less for what it is than for what it reveals about the yearnings of its audience. People love "The Producers" because it reminds them of old, terrific, happy musicals that were unburdened by the preoccupations of the modern ones: death, misery, minor chords and the look and feel of brown drabness. "
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