The Producers Revival

[Ilene Aiken]

Posted: 4/16/25 at 8:37pm

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

[BrodyFosse123]

Posted: 4/16/25 at 11:28pm

I guess you were hibernating last year. 

[uncageg]

Posted: 4/17/25 at 12:21am

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

[Bwaygurl2]

Posted: 4/17/25 at 4:14am

Gutenberg isn't the producers.

[JSquared2]

Posted: 4/17/25 at 3:27pm

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]

Posted: 4/17/25 at 4:55pm

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

[George in DC]

Posted: 4/17/25 at 7:29pm

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.

 

[Kad]

Posted: 4/17/25 at 7:42pm

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

[Zeppie2022]

Posted: 4/17/25 at 8:04pm

"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.

[quizking101]

Posted: 4/18/25 at 11:11am

I’d pay top dollar for a limited run with Richard Kind and John Mulaney as B&B

[darquegk]

Posted: 4/18/25 at 1:12pm

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.

[merle57]

Posted: 4/18/25 at 1:47pm

I don't think The Producers would fare well in a revival.   The show could never play Kennedy Center -- Trump-Vance-Musk and MAGA love Hitler and the Nazis,. so Springtime for Hitler and several other musical numbers would have to be completely eliminated. Mel Brooks might get deported to an El Salvadorian concentration camp.

 

 

 

 

[quizking101]

Posted: 4/18/25 at 2:48pm

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.

[WiCkEDrOcKS]

Posted: 4/18/25 at 3:10pm

I’ve always thought Nick Kroll and John Mulaney could make a great Bialystock and Bloom, respectively. 

[BroadwayNYC2]

Posted: 4/18/25 at 3:42pm

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

[Sutton Ross]

Posted: 4/18/25 at 3:57pm

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???"

His name is Andrew Rannells.

[Mskuphantm]

Posted: 4/18/25 at 10:15pm

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

[Jonathan Cohen]

Posted: 4/18/25 at 10:27pm

quizking101 said: "I’d pay top dollar for a limited run with Richard Kind and John Mulaney as B&B"

Not that there's anything stopping him from doing it again, but Richard Kind already has playing Bialystock on Broadway. I saw him do it with Alan Ruck, I think literally 20 years ago. 

With Mulaney, I'm not sure he'd work as a Bloom. He's better at playing bullies than nerds. Also his persona is so knowledgable about everything show business, I'm not sure he'd work playing naive. 

[darquegk]

Posted: 4/19/25 at 12:54pm

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.

[verywellthensigh]

Posted: 4/19/25 at 1:59pm

No.

[bwayboy22]

Posted: 4/19/25 at 2:15pm

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.

[Ilene Aiken]

Posted: 4/19/25 at 2:23pm

OMG - Great idea - Jack Black as Bialystock

Any young nerdy actors for Bloom?

[Nolan LuPone]

Posted: 4/19/25 at 3:02pm

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

[Kad]

Posted: 4/19/25 at 5:21pm

I’d see a Danny Burstein and Brandon Uranowitz Bialystock and Bloom. 

[drewalexander]

Posted: 4/19/25 at 9:45pm

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