The Producers

Comedy, Music, Musical

Gene Wilder	Leo Bloom
Zero Mostel	Max Bialystock
William Hickey	The drunk
Kenneth Mars	Franz Liebkind
Lee Meredith	Ulla
Christopher Hewett	Roger De Bris
David Patch	Doc Goebbels
Estelle Winwood	Hold me, Touch me
Renée Taylor	Eva Braun
Bill Hickey	The Drunk
Dick Shawn	'L.S.D.' - Lorenzo St. DuBois
Andréas Voutsinas	Carmen Ghia
Anne Ives
Renee Taylor
Andreas Voutsinas

Director	Mel Brooks
Producer	Sidney Glazier; Jack Grossberg
Writer	Mel Brooks
Musician	John Morris

Max Bialystock (Zero Mostel) is an aging producer reduced to flirting with wealthy old ladies to eke out a living. But when he persuades his accountant Leo Bloom (Gene Wilder) to hide a $2000 accounting error, a seed of an idea suddenly sprouts in Bloom’s mind. He realizes if a play fails no one expects to get their money back. Hence, if producers oversell shares in a guaranteed flop they will get to keep the extra cash without worrying about an audit. The two set out to find the worst play possible and they do. 'Springtime for Hitler' is an ode to the fallen ubermensch written by loony former Nazi Franz Liebkind (Kenneth Mars). Once they have the rights to the play they completely rewrite it and turn it into an amazingly offensive yet perky musical. To put the icing on the cake they hire swishy and untalented Roger de Bris (Christopher Hewitt) to direct, cast a wanna-be beatnik Lorenzo St. Dubois (Dick Shawn) as Hitler, find a pneumatic blonde to play Eva Braun (Renee Taylor), and proceed to sell 25,000% of the show. So what could go wrong?