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The Producers - The New Mel Brooks Musical (Original Broadway Cast Recording)

The Producers

Shows · The Producers

They find Springtime for Hitler, a valentine to Hitler written by Franz Liebkind (Brad Oscar), a Nazi playwright and pigeon breeder (even the pigeons sport swastikas on their wings) living in Greenwich Village. Max cons his harem of white-haired ladies who back his plays out of $2 million.

Opened
2001
Performances
2,502
Type
Musical
Era
Modern
Music: Mel BrooksLyrics: Mel BrooksBook: Mel Brooks & Thomas Meehan

Productions3 on Broadway

2001 St. James Theatre Original. April 19, 2001 2,502 performances · 1 Tony wins
2004 Theatre Royal, Drury Lane Transfer. November 9, 2004
2005 Transfer Theatre not recorded.

Every Broadway staging held in broadway-data, sourced to IBDB. West End runs are not yet held.

Licensing 1 entry

US Music Theatre International The Producers matched on title alone — a lead, not a confirmed licensor

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In the literature57 passages

shows such as The Producers, Spamalot and Curtains which hark back to the style of the farcical musical popular prior to Oklahoma! book:broadway-musicals-show-by-show-seventh-edition-stanley-green-cary-ginell#p6

Bloom. The Producers garnered 15 Tony nominations and won 12 awards. book:broadway-musicals-show-by-show-seventh-edition-stanley-green-cary-ginell#p309

Much of same Producers creative team reunited, and a cast of accomplished musical comedy performers were gathered up to translate Brooks’s 1974 black and white parody of 1930’s Universal horror films to the Broadway stage. book:broadway-musicals-show-by-show-seventh-edition-stanley-green-cary-ginell#p336

Origi- nally to have been directed by Ockrent, Stroman picked up its reins ‘and delivered a gargantuan success, winning every accolade possible and securing her place in Broadway history. book:broadway-musicals-the-101-greatest-shows-of-all-time-bloom-ken-1949-vlastnik-fra#p56

We’ve got The Producers, Hairspray, and Avenue Q bringing lighthearted laughter back to the Great White Way. book:broadway-musicals-the-101-greatest-shows-of-all-time-bloom-ken-1949-vlastnik-fra#p99

He appeared with Victor Garber in several workshops of the most recent Sondheim project, at that point titled Wise Guys, before winning a second Tony for The Producers, a show whose runaway success (at least with Lane and Matthew Broderick on the marquee) was among the most unstoppable in recent times. book:broadway-musicals-the-101-greatest-shows-of-all-time-bloom-ken-1949-vlastnik-fra#p151

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