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MEL BROOKS (1926 - ) |
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Nationality: USA Email: n/a Website: Click here to visit |
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Literary Agent: Brooksfilms |
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Plays by Mel Brooks |
All American | ||
| 1st Produced: | Winter Garden Theater, New York | 1962 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | SK-48216 | |||
| Music: | Original cast recording: Sony ( SK-48216) 1962 | doollee no | #62075 | |||
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Genre: | Musical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | by Mel Brooks, Music by Charles Strouse; lyrics by Lee Adams | |||||
| A professor finds that the only way he can get through to his football obsessed students in to couch his engineering lectures in football terms. This ultimately improves the college team's performances | |||||
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Arch and Mehitabel | ||
| 1st Produced: | Broadway Theater, New York | 1957 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | Original cast recording: Legend (6009/10) 1957 | doollee no | #62619 | |||
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Genre: | Musical | |||||
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Notes: | Written by Mel Brooks and Joe Darion; music by George Kleinsinger; lyrics by Joe Darion. Based on the book by Don Marquis. Original title of the musical was was "Shinbone Alley" | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
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Producers, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | St. James Theatre, NY | 2001 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | sk-89646 | |||
| Music: | Original cast recording:Sony (SK 89646) 2001 | doollee no | #62030 | |||
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Genre: | Musical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | music and lyrics by Mel Brooks; book by Mel Brooks and Thomas Meehan | |||||
| 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." | |||||
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Young Frankenstein | ||
| 1st Produced: | Hilton Theatre, New York | 11 Oct 2007 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | universal-yf | |||
| Music: | Original cast recording: Universal/Decca Broadway 2007 | doollee no | #68268 | |||
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Genre: | Musical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | Book by Mel Brooks and Thomas Meehan; Music by Mel Brooks; Lyrics by Mel Brooks | |||||
| Frederick Frankenstein arrives at the castle in Transylvania that he has inherited. He finds Igor is still living there. When Frederick discovers his grandfather's secret laboratory - he decides to carry on his work - and create his own monster | |||||
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Shinbone Alley | ||
| 1st Produced: | Broadway Theatre, New York | 1957 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | legend-6009 | |||
| Music: | Original cast recording: Legend (6009/10) 1957 | doollee no | #109746 | |||
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Genre: | Musical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | Music by George Kleinsinger; lyrics by Joe Darion; book by Mel Brooks | |||||
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