Mel Brooks News

The Ivoryton Playhouse will be holding local Equity and non-Equity auditions for the summer musical production 'The Producers' by Mel Brooks and Tom Meehan on Saturday, April 16th from 10am - 6pm at the Rehearsal Studio, 24 Main Street, Centerbrook, CT 06409.

Making her first Florida appearance, the celebrated actress will take the audience on a hilarious and sometimes poignant journey through her spectacular career and life. An Academy Award winner for Best Supporting Actress (The Last Picture Show, 1971) and the only actor to ever win nine Emmy Awards, Cloris Leachman is now co-starring as the wacky grandmother Maw Maw in this season's funniest new TV series, Raising Helen on Fox. Her best selling autobiography, Cloris, is now available in paperback.

A New Jersey couple opens a café in the middle of the desert in this rollicking comedy.

The New Mel Brooks Musical Young Frankenstein, a musical comedy from the creative team of the 12-time Tony®-Award winning smash The Producers, is coming to Omaha, Tuesday, March 29 through Sunday, April 3, 2011. The New Mel Brooks Musical Young Frankenstein will be presented at the Orpheum Theater by Omaha Performing Arts and Broadway Across America.

THE BOOK OF MORMON opened Thursday, March 24 at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre. THE BOOK OF MORMON features book, music and lyrics by Trey Parker, Robert Lopez and Matt Stone. Parker and Stone are the four-time Emmy Award-winning creators of Comedy Central's landmark animated series, 'South Park.' Tony Award-winner Lopez is co-creator of the long-running hit musical comedy, Avenue Q. The world premiere musical is choreographed by three-time Tony Award-nominee Casey Nicholaw (Monty Python's Spamalot, The Drowsy Chaperone) and directed by Nicholaw and Parker.

Spring is the time for change: more sunshiny days, shorter skirts, new beginnings, and one ridiculously funny musical debut involving mistaken identities and sword fighting. Coming this spring, the world premiere of Monty Python-esque musical The King's Proposal (or the Marriage of Princess Guido) will be performed as part of Seattle Musical Theatre's 33rd season.

Led by the two most recent Tony® Award winners for Broadway's Best Musical, the 2010/11 Duke Energy Broadway Lights Series presented by the Blumenthal Performing Arts Center features a fantastic lineup of Broadway's most popular and critically acclaimed shows.

Cabrillo Music Theatre proudly announces its brand-new production of the riotous musical by Mel Brooks, THE PRODUCERS.

Goodspeed Musicals will honor the tremendous creative team that introduced the world to Annie nearly 35 years ago when it debuted at the Goodspeed Opera House. The incomparable team of Thomas Meehan, Charles Strouse and Martin Charnin will be celebrated at a Gala evening on Saturday, June 4, 2011 when they will each receive The Goodspeed Award for Outstanding Contribution to Musical Theatre in recognition of their extraordinary careers. Previous award recipients include Julie Andrews, Ira Gershwin, Jerry Herman, William Ivey Long, Michael P. Price, Gerald Schoenfeld, Stephen Schwartz, Susan Stroman, Tommy Tune and Paul Williams. Proceeds from the Gala will support Goodspeed Musicals' Education Programs through The Max Showalter Center for Education in Musical Theatre.

The New Mel Brooks Musical Young Frankenstein, a new musical comedy from the creative team of the 12-time Tony Award winning smash The Producers, will close at The Orpheum Theatre, March 13th, 2011.

Walnut Street Theatre's 2010-2011 Independence Studio on 3 season continues with Marius von Mayenburg's black comedy, THE UGLY ONE. Directed by Debi Marcucci, the production closes on March 13th in the Walnut's Independence Studio on 3.

The Seacoast Repertory Theatre is pleased to bring to the stage the play that made the movie possible. For the first time in the Seacoast region the Pulitzer Prize winning play, RABBIT HOLE will be on the Rep's mainstage, March 11-April 22. As improbably funny as it is heartbreaking, RABBIT HOLE is a story of a couple who seemingly has it all. Becca (Quetta Carpenter) and Howie (Jeremy Lee Cudd) have the perfect life - a great marriage, a beautiful house, and a lovely son. But after a tragic accident, the couple faces the challenges of surviving the ultimate loss and making a life with the family that remains.

Triple threat Lee Roy Reams will be performing a song from 42nd Street in this year's S.T.A.G.E. benefit entitled Original Cast 2 at the Luckman Theatre on Saturday April 2. He has been in the original cast of Lorelei and in more productions of Hello Dolly! and 42nd Street than he can remember. In our recent phone chat he reminisced about the shows and the people he's worked with, including late greats Ruby Keeler & Juliet Prowse and legendary Carol Channing and Jerry Herman.

The New Mel Brooks Musical Young Frankenstein, a new musical comedy from the creative team of the 12-time Tony Award winning smash The Producers, will play at The Orpheum Theatre, March 8th-13th, 2011.

The New Mel Brooks Musical Young Frankenstein, a new musical comedy from the creative team of the 12-time Tony Award winning smash The Producers, is coming to the DuPont Theatre for eight (8) performances only.

Thrills, Chills and Music are all part of the Sands Theater Company's 2010-2011 Season. Here is what we have planned.

Young Frankenstein, the stage reincarnation of the classic Mel Brooks movie, is alive and headed to Salt Lake City. As part of the 2010-2011 Broadway Across America - Utah season, Young Frankenstein will be at the Capitol Theatre from April 26 - May 1.

Village Theatre is excited to announce its 2011-2012 Mainstage Season, comprised of five productions with five diverse stories. For the fourth consecutive season, Village Theatre looks forward to producing two new musicals in the season line up.

The New Mel Brooks Musical Young Frankenstein, a new musical comedy from the creative team of the 12-time Tony Award winning smash The Producers, is coming to the DuPont Theatre for eight (8) performances only.

The Tony Award-winning stars Matthew Broderick and Nathan Lane will serve as Masters of Ceremonies when the Vineyard Theatre honors the five-time Tony Award-winning director and choreographer Susan Stroman at the company's annual gala to benefit the non-profit theatre company on Monday, February 28 at 6:00pm at the Hudson Theatre (145 W. 44 St.) in Manhattan, it has been announced by Douglas Aibel, Artistic Director of the Vineyard Theatre.