Mel Brooks

On stage 1 production

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Also credited on4 works

The Producers
Shinbone Alley
Young Frankenstein
All American

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In the literature8 passages

• In the end though, it was always going to be the year of The Producers . The smash hit musical adaptation of Mel Brooks’ irreverent 1968 comedy film had opened to rave reviews on 19 April 2001 and had been nominated for 15 awards across 12 categories. It would go on to win 12 (one in each of its nominated classes), breaking the 37 year re…ebooks/Bagnall, Rob/Still the Beast is Feeding_ 40 Years of Rocky Horror - Rob Bagnall & Phil Barden.txt
• 14 Term I learned from another Mel, Mel Brooks, when I worked with him on The Producers.ebooks/Barrowman, Carole E_/I Am What I Am - Carole E. Barrowman.txt
• Mel Brooks’s Young Frankenstein was currently running in the Hilton, but it had gotten poor reviews. It became an open secret among Broadway insiders that Turn Off the Dark was circling Young Frankenstein like a starving vulture. Finally, in January 2009, Young Frankenstein gave up the ghost, and the theatre was ours.ebooks/Berger, Glen/Song of Spider-Man_ The Inside Story of the Most Controversial Musical in Broadway History - Glen Berger.txt
• Besides “Fall River Fancy”/“Lizzie Borden,” Curtain Going Up also contributed a second number to New Faces , Mel Brooks’s sketch “Of Fathers and Sons,” which kidded Arthur Miller’s plays. As “Fathers and Sons,” the spoof had been performed by Larry Storch, Phil Leeds, and Ethel Martin in the earlier revue.ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
• Cast member Patricia Hammerlee, sketch writer Mel Brooks, and lyricist-composer Michael Brown emerged from the wreckage of Curtain Going Up rather quickly. She was selected to be a New Face, and a few weeks later was back at the Forrest for the tryout of New Faces of 1952 , which emerged as one of the season’s happiest hits. Brooks’s sket…ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
• The general partner can legally put up money but usually doesn't. Remember the lines from the Mel Brooks Broadway musical The Producers: “There are two rules for being a producer. Rule one: Never. Use. Your. Own. Money! What is the second rule? NEVER USE YOUR OWN MONEY !!!”ebooks/Donahue, Tim & Patterson, Jim/Stage Money_ The Business of the Professional Theater - Tim Donahue & Jim Patterson.txt

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