The Producers Revival

The Producers is being revived in London

It is time for a revival on Broadway with Josh Gad and Andrew Rannels

anyone agree?  Anyone who can make this happen???

Updated On: 4/17/25 at 08:37 PM

I don't think that means they can't get back together and do The Producers revival.

Ilene Aiken said: "The Producers is being revived in London :(

It is time for a revival on Broadway with Josh Gad and Andrew Rannels

anyone agree? Anyone who can make this happen???"

 

And I wish you would include what the thread is about in the subject line...

 

TheatreFan4 said: "Am I really the only one who doesn't care about either of them?"

I love Andrew Rannels but I wouldn't see the pair of them do "The Producers" and specifically I'd never see Josh Gad do it.

 

"Of the two, Gad makes the most sense to me as Bloom, and neither are right for Bialystock. "

I agree. I really don't think this show has aged well and would seem funny to audiences in 2025.

John Mulaney as Bloom, Richard Kind as Bialystock, and then Nick Kroll as some hybrid of Carmen and the "featured male ensemblist" track that plays about a dozen featured roles, and you've got a recipe for comedy gold.

darquegk said: "John Mulaney as Bloom, Richard Kind as Bialystock, and then Nick Kroll as some hybrid of Carmen and the "featured male ensemblist" track that plays about a dozen featured roles, and you've got a recipe for comedy gold."

Throw in Bridget Everett as Ulla and I’ll produce it myself,

Hell, I’ll take a Paper Mill run of this.

Whenever people mention Gad and Rannels in the Producers, my first reaction is “Have you ever even seen this show?”

Daniel Radcliffe as Bloom. David Hyde Pierce As Bialystock,  Lea Delaria as Roger,  Kate Baldwin as Ulla, Alex Brightman as Carmen would be my dream cast

Mulaney's delivery can be goofy, but he's also extremely dry and droll until he boils over. He's a Bialystock by type... but he's also not passable as a used-up, past-his-prime Jewish (or at least Jew Ish) industry insider turned gigolo at all. There's a lot of jokes in the show that just won't work without someone who can play that TYPE believably.

I'm not advocating at all for "only Jewish actors can play Jewish characters," but when you're a distilled Borscht Belt archetype like Bialystock, you've gotta be believable in that tradition. Mulaney types to Bialystock more immediately than to Bloom, but his friend and collaborator Richard Kind is the prototypical Bialystock type as Mel Brooks envisioned it. So you massage; he'd be a good enough Bloom, if not the absolute ideal in the role. 

But since we're talking about star-driven productions that will never actually happen, you know who would be an ideal Ulla? Sabrina Carpenter: Broadway actress turned pop star whose great passion is vintage showbiz and playing with winking burlesque archetypes.

For me, Jack Black would be the ideal Bialystock for a revival. I know he's done a lot of live performing as part of Tenacious D, but I wonder if he's ever considered Broadway...he'd also be a great Tevye in a Fiddler revival now that I think about it.

Steve Martin and Martin Short, but they switch roles each performance

They actually did The Producers in 2016 with Michael Kostroff, Ashley Spencer and David Josefsberg