What the hell is Mel Brooks thinking?
What the hell is Mel Brooks thinking?
LeoBloom2
Stand-by Joined: 9/1/06
#1What the hell is Mel Brooks thinking?
Posted: 3/6/07 at 9:35pm
Richard Dreyfuss
Tony Danza
Henry Goodman
What do these men all have in common? They're not good Maxes.
With the exception of Danza none of them were around long...and even Danza wasn't around long himself. Thank gosh he'll be gone soon.
And I hated Lewis J. Stadlen as Max. He could barely sing. He had this wierd voice...like that noise you hear on the TV when a weather alert is announced.
#2re: What the hell is Mel Brooks thinking?
Posted: 3/6/07 at 9:40pmSeems like "The Producers" is jumping the shark.
Madame Morrible: "So you take the chicken, now it must be a white chicken. The corpse can be any color. And that is the spell for lost luggage!" - The Yellow Brick Road Not Taken
Yankeefan007
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/20/04
#2re: What the hell is Mel Brooks thinking?
Posted: 3/6/07 at 9:42pm
Show's closing.
Danza was very good in the role. Pleasantly surprising.
Get over it.
LeoBloom2
Stand-by Joined: 9/1/06
#4re: What the hell is Mel Brooks thinking?
Posted: 3/6/07 at 10:00pm
You're right...Goodman was SOO good that he got FIRED.
The man should have won a Tony for his...well..effort.
Yankeefan007
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/20/04
#5re: What the hell is Mel Brooks thinking?
Posted: 3/6/07 at 10:04pmHe wasn't bad. He just wasn't what they were looking for in the role.
LeoBloom2
Stand-by Joined: 9/1/06
#7re: What the hell is Mel Brooks thinking?
Posted: 3/6/07 at 10:09pmTalented as he is he wasn't that great in Chicago in London and he was awful in The Producers.
LeoBloom2
Stand-by Joined: 9/1/06
#9re: What the hell is Mel Brooks thinking?
Posted: 3/6/07 at 10:12pmSorry. Just not a fan of the Goodman.
Yankeefan007
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/20/04
#10re: What the hell is Mel Brooks thinking?
Posted: 3/6/07 at 10:13pmGet thee to a new show. The Producers is out.
#12re: What the hell is Mel Brooks thinking?
Posted: 3/6/07 at 10:15pmlike someone else said, Goodman wasn't bad. He just played the role in a way that was different from the way it was originally intended. I personally thought he was a very good performer and did his job better than most people i have seen in the role
#13re: What the hell is Mel Brooks thinking?
Posted: 3/6/07 at 10:17pm
Danza was awful.
The man needs to learn how to speak English.
Oh, singing lessons are needed, too.
I will say, his BETRAYED was great. Best part of the show for him.
Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#14re: What the hell is Mel Brooks thinking?
Posted: 3/6/07 at 10:18pmLiked Stadlen in the role
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Yankeefan007
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/20/04
#15re: What the hell is Mel Brooks thinking?
Posted: 3/6/07 at 10:19pm
Henry Goodman as Bialystock, I'm assuming, will be the equivalent of John Glover as Man in Chair in The Drowsy Chaperone.
A great performance, but not one that they want for the character/show. An unintentionally sardonic performance.
Updated On: 3/6/07 at 10:19 PM
#16re: What the hell is Mel Brooks thinking?
Posted: 3/6/07 at 10:20pmI just saw John Glover on SVU and he was down right creepy. I realize this was that particular role, but I just can't see him as man in chair.
#17re: What the hell is Mel Brooks thinking?
Posted: 3/6/07 at 10:22pm
Richard Dreyfuss actually never played a performance as Bialystock. They had the good sense to get rid of him in rehearsals. Or did he injure himself? I can't remember.
Stunt casting is hardly a new phenomenon.
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
LeoBloom2
Stand-by Joined: 9/1/06
#18re: What the hell is Mel Brooks thinking?
Posted: 3/6/07 at 10:22pm
I like other shows, yeah. BUt this is my favorite one.
Why did they eeven hire Dreyfuss if they knew he would be bad?
#19re: What the hell is Mel Brooks thinking?
Posted: 3/6/07 at 10:23pmthat sounds like a damn good analogy yankee
Yankeefan007
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/20/04
#20re: What the hell is Mel Brooks thinking?
Posted: 3/6/07 at 10:23pm
AC1 - Dreyfuss "injured" himself the same way so many other actors who are replaced "injure" themselves.
#21re: What the hell is Mel Brooks thinking?
Posted: 3/6/07 at 10:24pm
I totally forgot about Richard Dreyfus. I'm kind of curious as to why Jason Alexander and Martin Short weren't brought to Broadway after their LA engagement of the show.
LeoBloom2, any clues?
Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#22re: What the hell is Mel Brooks thinking?
Posted: 3/6/07 at 10:25pm
Alledgedly Short did not want to be away from his family in LA
True or not I do not know but I heard that somewhere
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LeoBloom2
Stand-by Joined: 9/1/06
#23re: What the hell is Mel Brooks thinking?
Posted: 3/6/07 at 10:25pm
Well it's my understanding that they btoh did really well in the show it's just that at the time Nathan and Matthew were coming back...I think.
Because the LA Production opened and closed in 2003 just as Nathan and Matthew were coming back..but it's just a guess.
#24re: What the hell is Mel Brooks thinking?
Posted: 3/6/07 at 10:26pmIf I remember correctly, Messrs. Alexander and Short didn't exactly receive glowing reviews.
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
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