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    The Producers

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    The Producers as a Broadway Musical made history by winning 12 Tony Awards, the previous high was never more than 9 Tonys awarded to Fiddler on the Roof, Hello Dolly plus a few other musicals. The Mel Brooks venture did not deserve 12 Tony Awards. I felt there was some funny business in the whole process. I could never share my thought as to what might have been happening during the voting process of that year's Tony Awards, but it seemed fishy!

    The Producers, the Musical Film directed by legendary Susan Stroman does her best in what many might call a fairly decent feature debut. That might be the case, but this production did not touch me in any way. Nothing was to my taste in the Broadway version or the filmed version. In fact, some of the numbers, as with the old ladies was a travesty that should never have appeared on stage let alone so exaggerated on film. Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick as talented as they are, are no Zero Mostel or Gene Wilder. It's a very old style musical that I just disliked. It's very rare that a decent musical film is made in this day and age. The only successful one was CHICAGO, winning Oscar Gold. Even 2014's Into The Woods also directed by Chicago director Rob Marshall was bland at best.

    Most didn't care for it at all, but the Stephen Sondheim score can be considered an innovative, bold step in advancing the Musical form. But I will admit it's a difficult movie adaptation. I was really shocked when first I heard it was going to be filmed as it's so very, very theatrical in every way. Without MERYL STREEP as the WITCH, Into The Woods would not have made 130 million dollars at the box office.

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    pietroantoni@  1.4.2015 age: 36-49 14,551 reviews

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