St. James Theatre

Address: 246 West 44th Street - New York, NY 10036 - Theatre District - South side of West 44th Street, between Broadway & 8th Avenue - almost to 8th Avenue.

Closest subway: A, C, E to 42nd Street. Exit 44th Street and walk east to the theatre.

PERFORMANCES:

Tue at 7pm

Wed - Sat at 8pm

Wed & Sat at 2pm

Sun at 3pm

Seating Capacity: 1,623

Now Playing: The Producers

The Producers:

When The Producers opened in 2001, Martin Denton wrote: "Whatever you've heard about this show is true, probably: The Producers is, indeed, the most entertaining new musical to reach Broadway in a long, long time.... It was, of course, Mel Brooks's 1968 film that introduced The Producers to the world; his still-unbeatable comic idea of staging the worst show ever written-a "gay romp with Adolph and Eva" called "Springtime for Hitler"-remains the indispensable center of this comic fable about a down-on-his-luck producer named Max Bialystock who teams with a nebbishy accountant named Leo Bloom to scam a pack of little old ladies out of two million dollars. Brooks's stamp is everywhere in this show: extravagantly effete Carmen Ghia tells Bialystock and Bloom to "walk this way"-and they do; unrepentant Nazi Franz Liebkind launches into a tirade of protest when he senses danger ("Ve didn't even know there vas a war. Ve lived in ze back."). Zany, outrageous, outlandish, over-the-top-none of these words begins to describe the nonstop hilarity and really broad satire that The Producers is. Everything that made American musical comedy (and vaudeville, and burlesque) great-slapstick, corny jokes, beautiful chorus girls, Borscht Belt shtick, ethnic jokes poking fun at every imaginable constituency, more beautiful chorus girls, unsubtle dirty jokes, hummable melodies, vigorous tap dancing, opulent and entirely unmotivated musical numbers, and some more beautiful chorus girls-it's all here, unabashed, the way that Brooks has celebrated it throughout his career. We just never thought we'd actually get to see it on stage."

CAST:
John Treacy Egan, Hunter Foster, Brad Musgrove, Bill Nolte, Lee Roy Reams, Angie Schworrer

MUSIC & LYRICS:
Mel Brooks

BOOK:
Mel Brooks & Thomas Meehan

DIRECTOR:
Susan Stroman

SETS:
Robin Wagner

LIGHTING:
Peter Kaczorowski

COSTUMES:
William Ivey Long

SOUND:
Steve C. Kennedy

CHOREOGRAPHER:
Susan Stroman

MUSIC DIRECTOR:
Patrick S. Brady

MUSICAL SUPERVISION:
Glen Kelly

WIGS & HAIR:
Paul Huntley