Mel Brooks

THE PRODUCERS at Celebration Theatre

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Deborah Klugman – Stage Raw I’ve always admired Celebration Theatre for its expert staging of technically demanding plays in tiny venues. The company’s musical productions — last year’s Cabaret, the Boy from Oz (2016)and Women of Brewster Place, the Musical (2010) — have been especially impressive. Now comes The Producers, Mel Brooks’s wacky stereotype-laden show about an unethical Broadway producer … Read more

YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN at Richard and Karen Carpenter Performing Arts Center

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Melinda Schupmann – Arts In LA Mel Brooks’s very funny 1974 film became The New Mel Brooks Musical Young Frankenstein in late 2007. Receiving mixed reviews from the critics, it nonetheless played on Broadway for more than 500 performances, and it began a very successful touring show in 2009. Its appeal comes from a lively … Read more