THE PRODUCERS

BY ED BRUCE edbrucevegas@yahoo.com

JUST SENSATIONAL ! ! ! ! !

THIS THE FINALE OF FOUR SUPER SUMMER THEATRE PRODUCTIONS AT THE SPRING MOUNTAIN STATE PARK ........SUPER WEST LAS VEGAS.

JUST SENSATIONAL ! ! ! !

THIS THE CONCLUSION TO THE THEATRES BEST PRODUCTIONS EVER IN THEIR 47TH SEASON...HOW CAN THEY CONTINUE TO GET BETTER ?

WHO DOESN'T KNOW THE PRODUCERS ? ? ?   WELL LVEN REPORTER GARY TURNER FOR ONE, BUT NOW IS A DISCIPLE AND AMONG THEIR BIGGEST FANS......NEVER PASS UP AN OPPORTUNITY TO SLAM HITLER AND THE NAZIS AROUND....AND OF COURSE THIS THE THEME FROM AUTHOR MEL BROOKS.

HERE THE QUICK BIO FOR THOSE STILL IN THE DARK....Brooks then wrote and directed The Producers, a boundary-bursting film about swindlers trying to produce the most offensive Broadway play they can imagine -- a bouncy musical about Adolf Hitler. Starring Zero Mostel and Gene Wilder (in his first comedic role), it won Brooks an Oscar for best screenplay, and gave America the song "Springtime for Hitler". Now considered a classic, The Producers tanked at the box office. Hogan's Heroes had shown that America could laugh at Nazis, but apparently the nation wasn't yet ready to laugh at the Fuhrer.

BROOKS AND THOMAS MEEHAN WROTE THE BOOK FOR THIS IN THE EARLY 60,S AND BROOKS WROTE THE MUSIC AND LYRICS.....THERE IS SO MUCH IN SUCH A FAST PACE...REPLAY IS NECESSARY !

1964 FOR THIS MOVIE.....A DECADE OR SO IT RAN ON BROADWAY WITH NATHAN LANE AND MATTHEW BRODERICK....WHO COULD TOP THAT....WELL MAYBE  TROY TINKER AS MAX AND CORY BENWAY AS LEO...ALONG WITH KADY KAY AS THE TEMPTRESS.... ULLA.....GEE THEY WERE ALL GREAT AS WAS THE ENTIRE OUTSTANDING CAST......WHAT A TREAT TO LAUGH AND BE ENTERTAINED AT THIS SUPER HIGH LEVEL......THE STATE  PARK THEATRE SETTING AMONG LAS VEGAS TREASURES ON THIS PERFECT NIGHT.

HOW LUCKY FOR YOU.....SOME OF IT STILL LEFT... 702 594 7529  showtix4u.com     THE DRIVE OUT ON THIS PERFECT NIGHT A TREAT IN INSELF.

SHOULD WE TALK ABOUT THE PRODUCTION ?   DIRECTOR AND PRODUCER JOE HYNES....THANK YOU FOR PULLING IT ALTOGETHER AND PROVIDING THIS VERY EXCELLENT  CAST OF ACTORS.   FRIDAY NIGHTS SHOW ....JUST FLAWLESS.....WITH PERFECT TIMING...ACTORS HITTING THEIR MARKS....GREAT BLOCKING AND CONTINUITY.......137 MINUTES....REALLY NOT ENOUGH.

THE GENIUS OF LIVE THEATRE AND REPEAT HISTORICALLY ENDURING THEATRE IS WHAT YOU CAN DO WITH IT AND TWEAK IT ALONG THE WAY....IT HAS BEEN AWHILE SINCE I HAVE SEEN THE MOVIE AND THE DOWNTOWN LAS VEGAS PRODUCTION AND IN MY ON GOING ADVANCE OF ALZHEIMERS I DID NOT REMEMBER IT ALL AND SOME OF THE GAGS AND NUMBERS WERE FRESH AND CLEVER......THEY HAD A CAGE OF SIX PIGEONS WHICH WERE BRILLIANT.... THE NAZI AUTHOR ERIK BALL OVER THE TOP AND RIGHTFULLY SO.....TAP DANCING IN NAZI UNIFORMS WITH THE SWASTIKA GREAT CYNICISM.....THE COSTUME LOAD FOR THIS WAS TERRIFIC AND THEY MADE THE CHANGES SMOOTH AS GLASS....14 COSTUMED OLD LADIES WITH THE SAME DRESS AS THE FINANCIERS....THIS WHOLE THING COULD NOT HAVE BEEN BETTER.

MY PROBLEM IS I WANT TO GO AGAIN AND DON,T HAVE A SCHEDULE OPENING.

THIS PRODUCED BY MATALIE SENEDCAL....CHOREOGRAPHER KADY KAY....WHAT A TEAM.

ANOTHER THING IS THAT ALL THE ACTORS LOOKED THE PART AND PLAYED THE PART AND ACTED THE PART AND LOOKED HAPPY TO BE IN THE SHOW....I WAS HAPPY THEY WERE ALL THERE.

THANKS TO LISA DAVIS.... HER PROMOTION AND ASSISTING THE MEDIA...HELL WE EAT AND HELP THE CAUSE WHEN THEY PASS THE HAT....ALWAYS GREAT TO PROVIDE MEDIA ATTENTION....THIS DAMN NEAR A SELLOUT ON FRIDAY.

JUST SENSATIONAL ! ! !

THANKS FOR ENTERTAINING ME !

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