What the hell is Mel Brooks thinking?

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What 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.

#2

re: What the hell is Mel Brooks thinking?

Posted: 3/6/07 at 9:40pm

Seems like "The Producers" is jumping the shark.

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#3

re: 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.

#4

re: What the hell is Mel Brooks thinking?

Posted: 3/6/07 at 9:46pm

I loved Goodman. He was great.

#5

re: 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.

#6

re: What the hell is Mel Brooks thinking?

Posted: 3/6/07 at 10:04pm

He wasn't bad. He just wasn't what they were looking for in the role.

#7

re: What the hell is Mel Brooks thinking?

Posted: 3/6/07 at 10:08pm

Poor Johnny one note.

#8

re: What the hell is Mel Brooks thinking?

Posted: 3/6/07 at 10:09pm

Talented as he is he wasn't that great in Chicago in London and he was awful in The Producers.

#9

re: What the hell is Mel Brooks thinking?

Posted: 3/6/07 at 10:09pm

Chill, LeoBloom2.

#10

re: What the hell is Mel Brooks thinking?

Posted: 3/6/07 at 10:12pm

Sorry. Just not a fan of the Goodman.

#11

re: What the hell is Mel Brooks thinking?

Posted: 3/6/07 at 10:13pm

Get thee to a new show. The Producers is out.

#12

re: What the hell is Mel Brooks thinking?

Posted: 3/6/07 at 10:13pm

Do you like any other shows?

#13

re: What the hell is Mel Brooks thinking?

Posted: 3/6/07 at 10:15pm

like 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

#14

re: 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.

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re: What the hell is Mel Brooks thinking?

Posted: 3/6/07 at 10:18pm

Liked Stadlen in the role

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#16

re: 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

#17

re: What the hell is Mel Brooks thinking?

Posted: 3/6/07 at 10:20pm

I 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.

#18

re: 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.

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#19

re: 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?

#20

re: What the hell is Mel Brooks thinking?

Posted: 3/6/07 at 10:23pm

that sounds like a damn good analogy yankee

#21

re: 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.

#22

re: 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?

#23

re: 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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#24

re: 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.

#25

re: What the hell is Mel Brooks thinking?

Posted: 3/6/07 at 10:26pm

If I remember correctly, Messrs. Alexander and Short didn't exactly receive glowing reviews.

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"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