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| rdfs:comment | - The Producers is a production, and this is a general overview of that production.
- The Producers is a 2015 remake of the 1968 and 2005 film of the same and based on the musical of the same name.
- The Producers is a 1968 American satirical dark comedy cult classic musical film written and directed by Mel Brooks. The film stars Zero Mostel as Max Bialystock, the producer, and Gene Wilder as Leo Bloom, the accountant, and features Dick Shawn as L.S.D., the actor who ends up playing the lead in the musical within the movie, and Kenneth Mars as the former Nazi soldier and playwright, Franz Liebkind. It was the first film directed by Mel Brooks. Decades later, it was selected for preservation in the National Film Registry and placed 11th on the AFI's 100 Years...100 Laughs list. The film was later remade successfully by Brooks as an acclaimed Broadway stage musical which itself was adapted as a film.
- The Producers is a 1968 comedy film directed by Mel Brooks; it stars Zero Mostel as failed Broadway producer Max Bialystock and Gene Wilder as fearful accountant Leo Bloom. The film, now considered a comedy classic, launched Brooks' long film career; several decades later, he adapted it into a Broadway musical starring Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick (as Bialystock and Bloom, respectively) which won twelve Tony Awards (the most Tonys a Broadway production has ever received). The Broadway adaptation was itself adapted into a film in 2005 (featuring Lane and Broderick in the primary roles), but this adaptation wasn't as well-received as the original film or the Broadway production.
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| Starring | - *Nathan Lane
*Matthew Broderick
- Zero Mostel, Gene Wilder, Dick Shawn
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| Cat | - Best Supporting Actor
- Best Story and Screenplay
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| Author | - *Mel Brooks
*Thomas Meehan
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| Awards | - 41
- Tony Awards
*Best Musical
*Best Book of a Musical
*Best Original Score
*Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical
*Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Musical
*Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical
*Best Scenic Design of a Musical
*Best Costume Design of a Musical
*Best Lighting Design of a Musical
*Best Choreography
*Best Direction of a Musical
*Best Orchestrations
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| Description | - An accountant who gets convinced by Max to follow his secret desire to become a Broadway producer.
- A sleazy producer who attempt to swindle his way into big money.
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| abstract | - The Producers is a production, and this is a general overview of that production.
- The Producers is a 1968 comedy film directed by Mel Brooks; it stars Zero Mostel as failed Broadway producer Max Bialystock and Gene Wilder as fearful accountant Leo Bloom. The film, now considered a comedy classic, launched Brooks' long film career; several decades later, he adapted it into a Broadway musical starring Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick (as Bialystock and Bloom, respectively) which won twelve Tony Awards (the most Tonys a Broadway production has ever received). The Broadway adaptation was itself adapted into a film in 2005 (featuring Lane and Broderick in the primary roles), but this adaptation wasn't as well-received as the original film or the Broadway production. In all versions, the story depicts Bialystock and Bloom meeting for the first time and quickly falling into a get-rich-quick scheme: they'll oversell shares in a Broadway production by a wide margin, then deliberately produce a horrific flop which closes in one night, leaving them free to flee the country with massive profits without the IRS investigating the books. The two schemers choose as their Broadway bomb Springtime for Hitler, a "love letter" to the German dictator written by unrepentant Nazi Franz Liebkind. In the original film, their chosen director is Roger De Bris, who is wholly untalented and flamboyantly gay, while Hitler is played by Lorenzo St. DuBois ("LSD"), a charismatic but seriously brain-damaged hippie. In the musical, Liebkind is chosen for the role of Hitler, but breaks his leg at the last minute and is replaced by De Bris. Bialystock and Bloom's plan culminates in a production which the opening night audience finds funny, and since the play is announced to be a smash success, things only go downhill for the protagonists from there.
- The Producers is a 2015 remake of the 1968 and 2005 film of the same and based on the musical of the same name.
- The Producers is a 1968 American satirical dark comedy cult classic musical film written and directed by Mel Brooks. The film stars Zero Mostel as Max Bialystock, the producer, and Gene Wilder as Leo Bloom, the accountant, and features Dick Shawn as L.S.D., the actor who ends up playing the lead in the musical within the movie, and Kenneth Mars as the former Nazi soldier and playwright, Franz Liebkind. It was the first film directed by Mel Brooks. Decades later, it was selected for preservation in the National Film Registry and placed 11th on the AFI's 100 Years...100 Laughs list. The film was later remade successfully by Brooks as an acclaimed Broadway stage musical which itself was adapted as a film.
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