Chagrin Valley Little Theatre

The Producers Book by MEL BROOKS and THOMAS MEEHAN
Music and Lyrics by MEL BROOKS

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About the Play

It's absolutely amazing… but under the right circumstances, a producer could make more money with a flop than he could with a hit!

Directed by J. E. Ballantyne, Jr.
Musical Direction by David Keith Stiver
Choreography by Jennifer Leinweber-Ritz

Surely you've heard the story - a shady businessman with a worthless investment on his hands takes hundreds of thousands of dollars from the unsuspecting backers, betting against his own success in hopes of keeping their money. Is this Wall Street? Nope. Try five miles north - it's Broadway! This is Mel Brooks' The Producers, the hilarious musical about washed-up theater producer Max Bialystock and his mild-mannered accountant Leo Bloom, who hatch a plan to get rich quick by producing the most notorious flop in the history of Broadway! Along the way, they enlist the help of terrible director Roger De Bris, Nazi-sympathizing playwright Franz Liebkind, and Swedish bombshell Ulla Inga Hansen Benson Yansen Tallen Hallen Svaden Swanson.

Based on Mel Brooks' hit 1968 film of the same name, The Producers won a record-breaking 12 Tony Awards in 2001, including Best Musical. It's chock-full of the broad, goofball humor that made Mel's films like Blazing Saddles, Spaceballs, and Young Frankenstein comedy classics. The score contains such gems as "I Wanna Be A Producer," "When You Got It, Flaunt It," "Springtime for Hitler," and "Prisoners of Love."