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Winter Garden Theater, New York

1962

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Original cast recording: Sony ( SK-48216)

1962

I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page

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Music by Charles Strouse; lyrics by Lee Adams

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Broadway Theater, New York

1957

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Original cast recording: Legend (6009/10)

1957

I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page

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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"

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St. James Theatre, NY

2001

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I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page

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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."
nytheatre.com

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2006

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I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page

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Book by Mel Brooks and Thomas Meehan; Music by Mel Brooks; Lyrics by Mel Brooks

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