New leads for The Producers

[JakeB]

Posted: 8/7/03 at 1:32pm

So, it seems that famous leads are needed for big bucks at the box office, so who could fill the roles that are big stars?

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 8/7/03 at 1:40pm

Let me be the first to suggest Sutton and Gavin. There are zero big stars bigger than they are.

[Belasco07]

Posted: 8/7/03 at 4:56pm

I think Nathan Lane himself suggested Danny Devito and Ben Stiller as a joke

[sabrelady]

Posted: 8/7/03 at 6:37pm

HMMMM. Drew Carey & Seth Green! ( runs to escape the horde of tomatos)

[broadwayguy2]

Posted: 8/7/03 at 6:41pm

Kevin Chamberlain and Mark Price (Roger Bart's u/s from YAGM, CB, Riff Raff in RHS, Pepper in Mamma Mia!)

[SONDHEIM8]

Posted: 8/7/03 at 7:51pm

Did anyone ever see Henry Goodman in THE PRODUCERS? I'd love to hear just how he was.











LINK: Tracy, you look beautiful behind bars!

TRACY: It must be the low-watt institutional lightning!

[Belasco07]

Posted: 8/7/03 at 8:26pm

YES! I saw Henry Goodman as Bialystock. Goodman's Bialy was a little bit more cynical than one might expect--he didn't quite embrace the outrageousness or eccentricity brought to the role by his predecessor, the inimitable Nathan Lane. But just the same, his performance did not entirely disagree with me. Goodman has a fine sense of comic timing, and I think he fares out better in legitimate theatre (Tartuffe, for example) Stephen Weber as Bloom--well, there was the problem. It is essential that the two leads in a show like the producers have chemsitry. Next to Bart and Beach, Goodman and Weber simply faltered