Mayo Center to welcome 'The Producers'

MORRISTOWN — The award-winning comic sensation, "The Producers," takes the stage at Mayo Performing Arts Center on Thursday and Friday, Nov. 19-20, 2015, at 8 p.m.

"The Producers" is the hilarious Mel Brooks smash-hit that took Broadway by storm in 2001, winning a record-breaking 12 Tony Awards and three Olivier Awards.

Tickets are $49-89.
"The Producers" revolutionized Broadway musical comedy, and as Ben Brantley raved, "It is, to put it simply, the real thing: a big Broadway book musical that is so ecstatically drunk on its powers to entertain that it leaves you delirious, too."

Based on the Academy Award-winning 1968 film of the same name, this show chronicles the side-splitting adventures of washed-up Broadway producer Max Bialystock and his mild-mannered accountant Leo Bloom, as they scheme to get rich quick by producing the most notorious flop in the history of "showbiz." It's a comic tour-de-force that spoofs the big, old-fashioned Broadway musical while paying tribute to it at the same time.

Often hailed as the funniest Broadway musical of all time, "The Producers" features a riotous mix of eccentric characters and show-stopping songs including "I Wanna Be a Producer," "When You Got It, Flaunt It," "Prisoners of Love," and of course "Springtime for Hitler."

Written by Mel Brooks and Thomas Meehan, with music and lyrics by Mel Brooks, "The Producers" features Susan Stroman's Tony Award-winning direction and choreography recreated on tour by director Nigel West and choreographer Lauren Kladel.

For more information visit www.TheProducersOnTour.com.