The Producers

Synopsis

The Producers the new Mel Brooks musical is the story of two theatrical producer who hatch the ultimate theatrical scam...to raise more money than they need to put on a sure-fire Broadway disaster, and then to pocket the leftover cash when the show flops. Their guaranteed-to-fail fiasco? Springtime for Hitler - the musical.

Our Review:

30 March 2006

Never mind Max Bialystock’s ultra-bad “Springtime for Hitler” on Broadway, it’s definitely springtime for Mel Brooks’ ultra-hilarious The Producers in the West End.

With an irresistible satirical spring in each of their heels, the three new principal cast members easily acquit themselves in what seemed to me, first time round, as the funniest show in the universe and still leaves me grabbing the water bottle every five minutes to stave off collapsing in a heap of hysteria in the aisle.

Originally, Cory English was a walking understudy for both Nathan Lane’s Max and Lee Evans’ wannabe producer Leo Bloom, and actually played Max for some performances when Lane left the show due to a back injury. Now he’s wearing Max’s seedy Broadway producer’s fedora as if it was always designed to fit his greasy comb-over hair. He may not be quite as malevolent, or as fat, or as over-the top, as Lane’s showbiz shyster and yet English has achieved the near impossi...

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86.144.64.201) - 29 December 2006:

I went to see it on the 16th December and I loved it! It was camp, brash, in-your-face laugh a loud, hilarious, I just loved it! My boyfriend and I were laughing throughout the entire show! Im going again when it goes around the country when Peter Kay joins the cast, best of luck mate! Or in the show: BREAK A LEG!!!! ...

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