The Producers Reviews Are In!

Mel Brooks� The Producers makes a celebrated and hilarious comeback!

With a story full of mayhem and mishaps, The Producers did one thing right - it won the critics over. The boundary-pushing musical had its first major London revival at the Menier Chocolate Factory on December 9 (running until March 1) and is directed by Tony Award-winning director Patrick Marber and choreographed by Broadway icon Lorin Latarro.

With a cast featuring Marc Antolin, Trevor Ashley, Raj Ghatak, Andy Nyman, Harry Morrison, and Joanna Woodward, the story follows an unlucky Broadway producer and a nervous accountant who cook up a scheme to stage the worst show ever - so bad, it's sure to flop, letting them pocket the leftover cash However, things don't exactly go as planned.

Critic Reviews Of The Producers

"The celebrated musical's first London revival since the West End premiere run of 2004-2007 is a consummate guilty pleasure" - The Telegraph

"The musical gleefully sets out to offend just about everybody, but this joyful revival is full of comedy gems" - i News

""Everything that Mel Brooks' cheeky musical offered up when it first opened in the West End 20 years ago remains intact in Patrick Marber's loving revival. It's a more than welcome return for a show that is as funny as it is charming." - The Stage

"What's impressive about The Producers is just how sharp its teeth still are, nearly 60 years on. The sight of swastikas being gaily twirled around the stage still has the hard kick of taboo: as a satire both of fascist nationalism and showbiz, The Producers remains ever-relevant. Directed by Patrick Marber (Closer, Leopoldstadt), this production does a lot with a small, intimate stage; Lorin Latarro's choreography is showy and dynamic but lets the comedy rightfully hoard the focus." - The Independent

"At London's Menier Chocolate Factory, director Patrick Marber, choreographer Lorin Latarro and the versatile cast go at it with unadulterated glee, plundering every clich in the book and mischievously pickpocketing the musicals tradition." - The Financial Times

"Come for the great gags and music, stay for the hotpants and giant spangled Bratwurst" - The Evening Standard

"Can a show as big and blowsy as Mel Brooks's outrageous musical about a Broadway scam work in such an intimate setting? I had my doubts at first, but Patrick Marber's revival is so full of mischief that you're simply swept along by the sheer ridiculousness of it all. Staging Springtime for Hitler here is the equivalent of putting the Nuremberg Rally in a scout hut, yet it works, thanks partly to Lorin Latarro's knowingly tacky choreography." - The Times

"Still so original, and delightfully daringly funny, it is revived by director Patrick Marber with such vigour, sparkle and controlled wildness that it renders itself the London show of the festival season funnier, camper and more outre than pantomime, although it pulls back from the full freight of the danger in its political satire." - The Guardian

"Patrick Marber's grimy revival of the Mel Brooks musical classic is a little creaky but still hilarious, with a radiant contempt for fascism" - TimeOut