"role in the 1993 musical version of the Neil Simon film ""The Goodbye Girl"", on Broadway, receiving a Tony Award nomination and an Outer Critics Circle Award. He had the lead role in the 1999 Broadway revival of the musical ""Little Me"", for which he received a Tony Award and another Outer Critics Circle Award. In 2003, Short took to the stage once again in the critically acclaimed Los Angeles run of ""The Producers"". Short played the role of the accountant, Leo Bloom, opposite Jason Alexander's Max Bialystock. Although the role of Leo Bloom was originated on Broadway by Matthew"
"in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and at the Diablo Light Opera Company in California, starring Ginny Wehrmeister as Ulla, Ryan Drummond as Leo, and Marcus Klinger as Max. This production received the 2009 Shellie Award for Best Production. Oscar and Roger Bart reprised their roles as Max Bialystock and Leo Bloom, respectively, in a production at Starlight Theatre in Kansas City, Missouri in August 2010. A production at the Hollywood Bowl with Richard Kind, Roger Bart, and Gary Beach reprising their roles as Max, Carmen Ghia, and Roger DeBris from the original Broadway production ran July 27–29, 2012. The cast also starred"
"Hammerstein's ""Flower Drum Song"" has been overwhelmed by the sheer opulence and glamour [of the film]"". Lewis calls it ""a bizarre pastiche of limping mediocracy"". He comments that since the 1958 version of the musical was only rarely revived for decades after its initial run, the film ""would in future years come to stand for the stage musical it so crassly misrepresented"" and would serve as the version that academics and latter-day theatre critics would judge when they analyzed the musical. James Deaville countered that Koster and Hunter ""wanted to make the musical more relevant and accessible ... [by] intensify[ing]"
"is Leo who has the idea of how to make money from a failed play. In the 2005 film, after realizing his inner potential, Leo loudly asks ""When's it gonna be Bloom's Day?"" Hidden in the background of the office of Max Bialystock is a calendar marked for June 16, which is Bloomsday. Former Pink Floyd bandmate Roger Waters references Leopold Bloom in his song """" as sitting with Molly Malone. It has also been suggested by Jeffrey Meyer in ""Orwell's Apocalypse: ""Coming Up For Air, Modern Fiction Studies"""" that George Orwell's primary character George Bowling in ""Coming Up For"
"he himself had only directed one play before. While Levine was insecure in having an inexperienced director, Brooks convinced him by saying it would be cost-effective, and he knew how to do physical comedy after being a stage manager in ""Your Show of Shows."" Brooks wanted Samuel “Zero” Mostel as Max Bialystock, feeling he was an energetic actor who could convey such an egotistical character. Glazier sent the script to Mostel's lawyer, but the attorney hated it and never showed it to the actor. Eventually, Brooks had to send the script through Mostel's wife Kathryn Harkin. While Mostel did not"
"role"", with four days to go before first previews. Lee Evans played Leo (Lane and Evans had worked together in the 1997 movie ""MouseHunt""), with Leigh Zimmerman as Ulla, Nicolas Colicos as Franz Liebkind, Conleth Hill as Roger De Bris, and James Dreyfus as Carmen Ghia. The show enjoyed excellent box office success as it had in New York. Despite the departure of Lane from the show, it continued to enjoy strong sales. Max Bialystock was then played by Brad Oscar, Fred Applegate, and Cory English. Leo Bloom was later played by John Gordon Sinclair and Reece Shearsmith. A United"
"a year in 2007 to 2008 at the Paris Hotel & Casino. It starred Brad Oscar as Bialystock, Larry Raben as Bloom and Leigh Zimmerman as Ulla, with David Hasselhoff receiving top billing as Roger De Bris. Once Hasselhoff left the production, top-billing went to Tony Danza, who stepped in as Bialystock. The production was a 90-minute version. In 2007, the first U.S. regional theater production played in Lincolnshire, Illinois at the Marriott Theatre from September to November 2007 and starred Ross Lehman as Bialystock and Guy Adkins as Bloom. In 2009, the show played at the Walnut Street Theatre"
"an idea about ""two schnooks on Broadway who set out to produce a flop and swindle the backers."" The inspiration was some people Brooks met during his early show business days: Benjamin Kutcher, a New York producer who financed his plays by sleeping with elderly women, became the basis for Max Bialystock, and the scheme had origins in two theater producers who had a lavish lifestyle while making various unsuccessful plays. When imagining what play ""would have people packing up and leaving the theatre even before the first act is over,"" Brooks decided to combine Adolf Hitler and a musical."
"by different composers. They also maintained artistic control over the film versions of several of their other stage musicals. The film ""Oklahoma!"" followed the original stage version extremely closely, more so than any other Rodgers and Hammerstein stage-to-film adaptation. However, it did divide the very long (more than 45 minutes) first scene into several shorter scenes, changing the locations of several of the songs in the process. In a nod to ""Green Grow the Lilacs"", which was the basis of ""Oklahoma!"", Jud attempts to get revenge on Curly and Laurey by burning a haystack they stand on after the wedding,"
"and that, in the role of ""Max Bialystock,"" he is ""as gross and unfunny as only an enormous comedian bearing down too hard on some frail, tasteless routines can be."" Co-star Wilder fares better and is called ""wonderful,"" thanks to doing ""fine,"" despite being ""forced to be as loud and as fast as Mostel"" and ""[g]oing through long, infinitely variegated riffs and arpeggios of neuroticism,"" and playing his part ""as though he were Dustin Hoffman being played by Danny Kaye."" She also puts the movie into the bigger context of ""contemporary"" comedy and that it has the same ""episodic, revue"
"Bernstein's ""Candide"" was 'fixed'."" Juno (musical) Juno is a musical with music and lyrics by Marc Blitzstein and book by Joseph Stein, based closely on the 1924 play ""Juno and the Paycock"" by Seán O'Casey. The story centers on the disintegration of an Irish family in Dublin in the early 1920s, during the Irish War of Independence. Juno is a hardworking matriarch who strives to hold her family together in the face of war, betrayal, and her worthless husband's drinking. The original production opened on Broadway in 1959 and closed after only 16 performances. Its somber tone did not please"
"Musical Times""), ""vibrant"" and ""moving"" (""The Times"") and ""joyous"" (""The Manchester Guardian""). By the mid-1950s professional singers were cast in leading roles in most productions; they included Walter Midgley in ""Tosca"" and ""La bohème"" (1955), Raimund Herincx in ""Mefistofele"" (1957), Heather Harper in ""La traviata"" (1957), and Joan Hammond in ""Madame Butterfly"" (1958). A possibility of strengthening the professional element of the company was mooted in 1958, when a merger was proposed with the Carl Rosa Company, which was in financial difficulties. The proposal was not followed through and WNO continued independently while the Carl Rosa folded. During the 1960s"
"""Lonely Room""), and thus ran two-and-a-half hours, much longer than most other screen musicals of the time. It was the first of the huge roadshow musical films that would eventually overrun Hollywood in the 1960s. The movie of ""Oklahoma!"" revived an early talkie trend which had not lasted long—filming stage musicals virtually complete, and showing them as roadshow attractions (two performances a day, usually with an intermission, like stage productions). Although the film versions of Rodgers and Hammerstein's ""Carousel"" (1956) and ""The King and I"" (1956) did not have intermissions and cut more from the stage originals than did the"
"Doctor Dolittle (musical) Doctor Dolittle is a stage musical with book, music and lyrics by Leslie Bricusse, based on the 1967 movie of the same name and the children's stories by Hugh Lofting about the adventures of a doctor who learns to speak the language of various animals and treats them as patients. The musical features the same songs as the film (which starred Rex Harrison, Samantha Eggar, Anthony Newley and Richard Attenborough), including the Academy Award-winning ""Talk To The Animals"". The musical made its world premiere in London at the Hammersmith Apollo in 1998, followed by tours of the"
"a stage play in 1951 by Louis O. Coxe and Robert Chapman and produced on Broadway, where it won the Donaldson Awards and Outer Critics Circle Awards for best play. Benjamin Britten adapted it as an opera by the same name, first performed in December 1951. The play was adapted into a film in 1962, produced, directed, co-written, and starring Peter Ustinov with Terence Stamp receiving an Academy Award nomination in his film debut. Billy Budd is a seaman impressed into service aboard HMS ""Bellipotent"" in the year 1797, when the Royal Navy was reeling from two major mutinies and"
"Goldilocks and the Three Bares Goldilocks and The Three Bares is a 1963 nudie-cutie film from the legendary exploitation team of Herschell Gordon Lewis and David F. Friedman. The title has absolutely nothing to do with the famous fable which inspired the title. Appropriately billed as the ""first nudist musical"" (not to be confused with ""The First Nudie Musical"", 1976), it has considerably more depth than their prior attempts at this genre. The film follows the perils of nightclub singer Eddie Livingston (Rex Marlow), as he pursues press agent Alison Edwards (Downe). Livingston's comic foil Tommy Sweetwood is an unsuccessful"
"Carousel (film) Carousel is a 1956 American musical film based on the 1945 Rodgers and Hammerstein stage musical of the same name, which in turn was based on Ferenc Molnár's non-musical play ""Liliom"". The film stars Gordon MacRae and Shirley Jones, and was directed by Henry King. Like the original stage production, the film contains what many critics consider some of Rodgers and Hammerstein's most beautiful songs, as well as what may be, along with the plots of ""Allegro"" and ""South Pacific"", the most serious storyline found in their musicals. The story revolves around Billy Bigelow, a rough-talking, macho, handsome"
"also played as Graballa the Hutt on the Disney XD animated series """". On April 15, 2010, Snyder and Dave Willis went on a multi-city tour called ""Dave & Dana: Stars of Aqua Teen!"". In June 2010, he appeared as Max Bialystock in the Lyceum Theatre's production of Mel Brooks' ""The Producers"" in Arrow Rock, Missouri. In February and March 2011, he again played Max Bialystock in ""The Producers"" at the Riverside Theatre in Vero Beach Florida. Snyder has also been seen in the Lyceum Theatre 2011 productions of ""Run For Your Wife"", ""Damn Yankees"", and ""The Sound of Music"""
"Goldilocks (film) Goldilocks is a half-hour musical animated film, the audio tracks for which were recorded in the summer of 1969, produced strictly for television in 1970 by DePatie-Freleng Enterprises (known for their work on The Pink Panther, of which the animation style is strongly reminiscent) and produced with the assistance of Mirisch-Geoffrey Productions. Following in the footsteps of other groundbreaking children's shows of the period such as ""Mister Rogers' Neighborhood"" and ""Sesame Street"" the show presented a thinly veiled attempt to indoctrinate children on the virtues of equality and acceptance along with other modern values. One summer day, Bing"
"of Broadway, but now he has been reduced to a washed-up, aging, fraudulent, corruptible, and greedy Broadway producer who barely ekes out a hand-to-mouth existence romancing lascivious, wealthy elderly women (""angels"" in theatrical terms) in exchange for money for his next play. Accountant Leopold ""Leo"" Bloom (Gene Wilder), a young man who is highly nervous and prone to hysterics, arrives at Max's office to do his books and discovers a $2,000 discrepancy in the accounts of Max's last play. Max persuades Leo to hide the relatively minor fraud, and while shuffling numbers, Leo has a revelation: a producer could make"
"1,000 performances. ""Lightnin""' was the longest-running Broadway show until being overtaken in performance totals by ""Abie's Irish Rose"" in 1925. The motion picture mounted a challenge to the stage. At first, films were silent and presented only limited competition. By the end of the 1920s, films like ""The Jazz Singer"" were presented with synchronized sound, and critics wondered if the cinema would replace live theatre altogether. While live vaudeville could not compete with these inexpensive films that featured vaudeville stars and major comedians of the day, other theatre survived. The musicals of the Roaring Twenties, borrowing from vaudeville, music hall"
"Kingdom tour opened in Manchester on February 19, 2007, where it played for three months before moving on. English and Sinclair reprised their roles of Max and Leo, respectively, and Peter Kay was cast in the role of Roger. For the majority of the tour, which ran until early 2008, Joe Pasquale took over the role of Leo and Russ Abbot played Roger. A Los Angeles, California, production opened ran from May 2003 to January 2004 at the Pantages Theatre. Co-starring were Jason Alexander as Max Bialystock and Martin Short as Leo Bloom. The Las Vegas, Nevada production ran for"
"the soundtrack, which was recorded separately on Vitaphone disks, survives. All nine songs are preserved in the sound disc performances. There were four choruses as well, three of traditional Russian folk tunes and one drawn from Tchaikovsky's ""The Nutcracker."" The stage musical the film is based on opened on Broadway at the 44th Street Theatre on December 30, 1925 and closed on July 10, 1926 after 219 performances. the music was by Herbert P. Stothart and George Gershwin, with lyrics by Otto Harbach and Oscar Hammerstein II, and book by Otto Harbach and Oscar Hammerstein II. The musical was directed"
"director, Li Han Hsiang). Romantic melodramas such as ""Red Bloom in the Snow"" (1956), ""Love Without End"" (1961), ""The Blue and the Black"" (1964) and adaptations of novels by Chiung Yao were popular. So were Hollywood-style musicals, which were a particular speciality of MP&GI/Cathay in entries such as ""Mambo Girl"" (1957) and ""The Wild, Wild Rose"" (1960). In the second half of the 1960s, the Shaws inaugurated a new generation of more intense, less fantastical ""wuxia"" films with glossier production values, acrobatic moves and stronger violence. The trend was inspired by the popularity of imported samurai movies from Japan (Chute"
"Garland's, and dancing against a white background along some male dancers dressed in suits. Actress Katie Holmes paid homage to Garland, performing ""Get Happy"" on the television show ""So You Think You Can Dance"". She wore a similar outfit and danced alongside male dancers in suits in front of a match-painted background. Notes Bibliography Summer Stock Summer Stock (UK title: If You Feel Like Singing) is a 1950 American Technicolor musical film produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. It was directed by Charles Walters, stars Judy Garland and Gene Kelly, and features Eddie Bracken, Gloria DeHaven, Marjorie Main, and Phil Silvers. Nicholas Castle,"
"Flower Drum Song Flower Drum Song was the eighth musical by the team of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II. It is based on the 1957 novel, ""The Flower Drum Song"", by Chinese-American author C. Y. Lee. It premiered on Broadway in 1958 and was then performed in the West End and on tour. It was adapted for a 1961 musical film. After their extraordinary early successes, beginning with ""Oklahoma!"" in 1943, Rodgers and Hammerstein had written two musicals in the 1950s that did not do well and sought a new hit to revive their fortunes. Lee's novel focuses on"
"Juno (musical) Juno is a musical with music and lyrics by Marc Blitzstein and book by Joseph Stein, based closely on the 1924 play ""Juno and the Paycock"" by Seán O'Casey. The story centers on the disintegration of an Irish family in Dublin in the early 1920s, during the Irish War of Independence. Juno is a hardworking matriarch who strives to hold her family together in the face of war, betrayal, and her worthless husband's drinking. The original production opened on Broadway in 1959 and closed after only 16 performances. Its somber tone did not please the critics, who were"
"the insistence of producer Dowd). The ""star power"" of ""Goldilocks"" extends to the appearance of former light heavyweight champion Joey Maxim as the owner of his eponymous nightclub where Eddie and Tommy perform. Maxim was so unprepared for his role as himself that he would read his lines off his shirt cuff. With slightly higher production values than ""The Adventures of Lucky Pierre"" (1961) and ""Daughter of the Sun"" (1962), a series of artistically photographed musical sequences and somewhat more ""star power"", ""Goldilocks"" stands out from the other five entries of this phase of Lewis and Friedman's partnership. It also"
"Summer Stock Summer Stock (UK title: If You Feel Like Singing) is a 1950 American Technicolor musical film produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. It was directed by Charles Walters, stars Judy Garland and Gene Kelly, and features Eddie Bracken, Gloria DeHaven, Marjorie Main, and Phil Silvers. Nicholas Castle, Sr. was the choreographer. Garland struggled with many personal problems during filming and the film proved to be her final one for MGM as well as her last onscreen pairing with Kelly. By mutual agreement with her, MGM terminated her contract in September 1950, something studio head L. B. Mayer said he later regretted"
"score caught the attention of director George Abbott and producer Hal Prince. They hired the team to compose a musical biography of former New York City mayor Fiorello La Guardia. ""Fiorello!"" (1959) earned Bock and Harnick the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for Best Musical, Tony Award for Best Musical (tied with the team from ""The Sound of Music"") and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Bock's additional collaborations with Harnick include ""Tenderloin"" (1960), ""Man in the Moon"" (1963), ""She Loves Me"" (1963), ""Fiddler on the Roof"" (1964), ""The Apple Tree"" (1966), and ""The Rothschilds"" (1970), as well as contributions"
"movie predates their comic strip marriage, Abner makes a last-minute escape (natcherly!) A much more successful musical comedy adaptation of the strip, also entitled ""Li'l Abner"", opened on Broadway at the St. James Theater on November 15, 1956 and had a long run of 693 performances, followed by a nationwide tour. Among the actors originally considered for the title role were Dick Shawn and Andy Griffith. The stage musical, with music and lyrics by Gene de Paul and Johnny Mercer, was adapted into a Technicolor motion picture at Paramount in 1959 by producer Norman Panama and director Melvin Frank, with"
"all-star cast, including Christopher Plummer as Oedipus, Lilli Palmer as Jocasta, Orson Welles as Tiresias, Richard Johnson as Creon, Roger Livesey as the Shepherd, and Donald Sutherland as the Leading Member of the Chorus. Sutherland's voice, however, was dubbed by another actor. The film went a step further than the play, however, by actually showing, in flashback, the murder of Laius (Friedrich Ledebur). It also showed Oedipus and Jocasta in bed together, making love. Made in 1968, this film was not seen in Europe and the U.S. until the 1970s and 1980s after legal release and distribution rights were granted"
"authors produced other innovative works in the 1960s, such as ""Celebration"" and ""I Do! I Do!"", the first two-character Broadway musical. The 1960s would see a number of blockbusters, like ""Fiddler on the Roof"" (1964; 3,242 performances), ""Hello, Dolly!"" (1964; 2,844 performances), ""Funny Girl"" (1964; 1,348 performances) and ""Man of La Mancha"" (1965; 2,328 performances), and some more risqué pieces like ""Cabaret"", before ending with the emergence of the rock musical. Two men had considerable impact on musical theatre history beginning in this decade: Stephen Sondheim and Jerry Herman. The first project for which Sondheim wrote both music and lyrics"