The Producers July 22, 2010

'The Producers,' Mel Brooks' comic tour de force, won a record twelve Tony Awards in 2001. This rollicking production is filled with old-fashioned Broadway glitz, show-stopping songs, wickedly inventive dances, and enough audacious humor to keep audiences laughing all the way home. Max Bailystock, a down-on-his-luck Broadway producer, lassoes his milquetoast accountant Leo Bloom into a scheme to produce the biggest flop possible, on the premise that they can make more money from overselling a bomb than parlaying a hit. The preposterous "Springtime of Hitler" seems to be just the "sure to flop" script they are looking for to make all their theatrical dreams come true.