Did "THE PRODUCERS" Deserve the Tony's? — Page 2

"Once Lane and Broderick left, you realized how weak the material was without people who could properly do perform it."

Which is exactly why it didn't deserve all those other awards.

Still, I'm not complaining, it was wildly entertaining.

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I hate me some Producers, so no, I don't think it should have won a few of those awards.

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I think that Costumes, Sets, Lighting should have gone to "42nd Street." "42nd Street" was so opulent....all the design aspects of the show....gorgeous! It also should have won Best Choer(sp?), too. Maybe, even orchestrations???

I would have liked "The Full Monty" to have gotten something, as it was such a terrific show. But, after 9/11 NYC theatre suffered....a lot! Not "The Producers," though. It had such a HUGE advance that it wasn't affected at all.

IMO, Cady Huffman shouldn't have won Best Featured Actress. It should have gone to Kathleen Freeman in "The Full Monty."

Updated On: 5/29/07 at 08:52 PM

The Full Monty should've won Best Musical that year.

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IMO....it was really a toss up between TP or TFM for Best Musical. Both were so wonderful....in so many different ways.

I feel there are many boring moments in this show... Have you heard "TIL HIM"?

And set design?

HUH? WHAT?

When I saw the show and read that it won BEST SET DESIGN, I was shocked.

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I'm not a huge fan of the show, but yes, it deserved Best Musical and Actor, Featured Actor, Costumes, etc. but The Full Monty deserved Best Score. I think the lyrics are incredible, and it has become one of my favorite scores of the past ten years.

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my story:
we bought rush tickets to see TP and sat in front mezz. from the moment theow w curtain went up, i decided that i wanted to be an ensemble member of a broadway show when i got older. i was very excited about tony danza, although his singing dissapointed me greatly. hunter foster was GREAT, he turned "i want to be a producer" from a mediocre song i had heard on the OBCR to a magnificant number. yes, the producers made fun of almost everything possible, but that was the magic of it, and what made it so funny. i laughed every moment of the show! during spring time for hitler, i was in awe the whole time. i had never seen anything like it. i was so happy that the producers had been my second broadway experieince. when i got home, i logged onto BWW and saw an article saying the producers was to be closing april 22nd. although i was beyond sad, although i was so proud and happy i had had such a great experience and was able to be a part of that much-lost theater extravaganza, yes, very rogers and hammerstein. to me, it was like the definition of what a broadway show should be(chorus girls, funny plot, great score and book etc.)i know i will never forget the producers and i know i will always remember that it changed my life forever. on april 22nd and the following couple of weeks, BWW or broadway.com, playbill.com, NOTHING seemed to have a major article on the closing of the producers. it seemd like it had just slipped out of thin air. this made me very upset and dissapointed. anyway, i just wanted to say i think the producers deserved all of those tony's and that the producers is a great example for future shows to follow.

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"it harkened back to the days of Rodgers and Hammerstein, Learner and Loewe, etc."

No it didn't.

"I do think Rodgers and Hammerstein and Learner and Loewe would be offended by that."

I don't know about that.

It certainly deserved Best Musical, Best Book, Best Actor, The Tech Categories (Orchestrations included), Featured Actor and even Featured Actress (Though Kathleen Freeman was a riot!), but I'm a little iffy about score. I guess it's a little better than The Full Monty.
And as for director and choreographer- God yes. Stroman's work on that show was brilliant.

But I thought that The Full Monty was an actual musical adaptation of the movie. As in, everything about the story and the characters were perfect for the stage and nothing had to be forced. Whereas The Producers wasn't as smooth a transition.

I'm the opposite, wickedfan. I think The Full Monty suffered the most from having a very cinematic book. The transition and book changes that were made from film to stage were not enough for me. There were still a lot of short little cinematic scenes that worked fine in the film, because you can just jump from scene to scene on film and have short little one minute scenes and it's okay, but on stage that didn't work for me.

i loved TIL HIM. it was good to slow down the show a little. and plus, the old ladies singing the chorus was HILARIOUS!!!

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"The magic of The Producers was in the cast. Once Lane and Broderick left, you realized how weak the material was without people who could properly do perform it."

Exactly why it didn't deserve most of it's awards.

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