Do we think there's any chance ever of a Producers revival?

[Mike Barrett]

I wish I was able to catch the show while it was around. Does anyone think there's a chance we could possibly get a revival one day? With Norbert Leo Butz and Gavin Creel?

[BroadwayConcierge]

I don't know why, but the idea of Kroll and Mulaney as Bialystock and Bloom just popped into my head.

[KJisgroovy]

I don't think a lot of the humor still works. Ironically, the "offensive" material in the show remains pretty funny... but the gay stereotypes, the representation of women, and most of the jokes about sex just aren't as funny as they used to be.  I'm not the kind of person who gets easily offended... it's just sort of hard to laugh at this stuff nowadays. There was a recent production here in Chicago that was pretty great... but a lot stuff came off as more awkward than funny... and the folks in the audience that seemed to be guffawing also seemed to be doing so for the wrong reasons.  

[SomethingPeculiar]

Give it another 10-20 years to put more time between the original/film that everyone still remembers. Nathan Lane & Matthew Broderick & Stroman's direction/choreography heightened the material and overshadowed flaws. It doesn't feel like a show that gets a "reimagining," and would inevitably have bad comparisons to the original. There are some uncomfortable moments that should be...rethought...too. 

That said, BroadwayConcierge's idea of Mulaney & Kroll is amazing, but only if Billy Eichner plays Roger DeBris!! Maybe for a one-nighter?

I think a SPAMALOT revival would actually be more likely before a PRODUCERS revival, since that show became an ensemble piece once Tim Curry and the originals left. (And I think Spamalot keeps returning to the UK in tours and West End productions?)

[darquegk]

Last time I saw it, I was struck by sort of the opposite: how much of what COULD be offensive in today's culture is neutered by the warm-hearted nature of the material. Mel Brooks may be an equal-opportunity offender, but his sense of humor about it is oddly cuddly. The only person who the joke is ever really ON is Bialystock himself- Roger DeBris may be a drama queen, and Carmen Ghia an outdated 1950s "nelly" stereotype, but neither one is usually the target of the punch lines. Ulla is WAY less of a bimbo caricature than she was in the original film as well.

It's bawdy humor, but Mel Brooks is of an older, kinder generation of satire. While the jokes in "Book of Mormon," for example, may be much more pointed and satirical today, there's also an element of condemnation and judgment in much of it that you don't find anywhere in Mel Brooks. There's a difference between "Roger DeBris is a swishy kook" and "third-world Africa is messed up."

[Sondheimite]

I love The Producers.

But I don't love it's view of women.

[Dallas Theatre Fan]

Don't forget, making fun of Nazis is bad now according to our president. So the show will have to be reworked.

Does anybody think this show could work scaled down?  The West End production of Young Frankenstein was really scaled down and it worked better then it did on Broadway. At least in my opinion.  

 

[markypoo]

If Lane and Broderick agreed to a reprise, I think the ticket sales would go thru the roof.

[ActorGuyIL]

How about Josh Gad as Bially and Ben Platt as Bloom?

[Mike Barrett]

ActorGuyIL said: "How about Josh Gad as Bially and Ben Platt as Bloom?"

Yessssss please. Brian D'Arcy as Bially and Andrew Rannels as Bloom as well? 

[SomethingPeculiar]

How about Lea Delaria as Bialystock and Annaleigh Ashford as Bloom? Billy Eichner can still play Roger DeBris.

[Bwayfan292]

ActorGuyIL said: "How about Josh Gad as Bially and Ben Platt as Bloom?"

I would rather not see Bloom be turned into Evan Hansen. 

[Sondheimite]

Jack Black as Max

Jack McBrayer as Leo

Agree, Billy Eichner as Roger.

Eric Andre as Franz.

Wesley Taylor as Carmen.

[Kad]

Danny Burstein as Max.

[haterobics]

Bwayfan292 said: "I would rather not see Bloom be turned into Evan Hansen."

Then don't pretend to buy an imaginary ticket to a non-existent production?

[devonian.t]

Larry David as Max!

[Mike Barrett]

Jefferson Mays as Roger?

[IdinaBellFoster]

I saw a local production last year, and while the show is still a lot of fun, the jokes just don't work as well now. A lot of it became very cringe worthy. 

[Alex M]

BroadwayConcierge said: "I don't know why, but the idea of Kroll and Mulaney asBialystock and Bloom just popped into my head."

IMAGINE. This is the best idea I've heard on this board in awhile.