The Producers: The Book, Lyrics, and Story Behind the Biggest Hit in Broadway History! (2001)

by Mel Brooks

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When Mel Brooks turned his 1968 Academy Award-winning film, The Producers, into a Broadway musical with the help of his co-librettist, Tom Meehan, it quickly became the hottest ticket in town, won an unprecedented twelve Tony Awards and was hailed by Time magazine as 'a gift from the show-biz gods'. In this gorgeously illustrated book, Brooks and Meehan take us backstage, onstage and into the wings, with the entire annotated script, all nineteen songs, costume and set designs and full-colour photos throughout.… (more)

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Fantastic memoir of the creation of the musical. Hysterically written and fun to read. (

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caseybp | May 24, 2020 |

Kind of lacking actually. The main portion of the work contains the play but only a few notes penned in and many of them were of the "Look how cool this is". The only real neat story is about the Gypsy Robe and that was text around a picture. (

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This is the book based on the Broadway play. It has nothing to do with any movie. Please do not combine it with such. I keep separating them out and folks keep combining DVDs in.

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When Mel Brooks turned his 1968 Academy Award-winning film, The Producers, into a Broadway musical with the help of his co-librettist, Tom Meehan, it quickly became the hottest ticket in town, won an unprecedented twelve Tony Awards and was hailed by Time magazine as 'a gift from the show-biz gods'. In this gorgeously illustrated book, Brooks and Meehan take us backstage, onstage and into the wings, with the entire annotated script, all nineteen songs, costume and set designs and full-colour photos throughout.

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