The Producers

Tony Awards: The (Next) Movie?

Mark Juddery | Posted 05.29.2012

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Mark Juddery

Though Hollywood doesn't make musicals as much as they used to, they still look to Broadway for possible hits. So what will be the next hit movie musical?

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Mel Brooks Talks About Getting His Comedic Revenge On Hitler

Posted 03.09.2012

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Mel Brooks sat down with David Steinberg on "Inside Comedy" (Thu., 11 p.m. EST on Showtime) and joked about how he's "made a fine living from Nazis!" ...

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Nights On Earth: Conversations with Vince Mendoza and Elf's Matthew Sklar

Mike Ragogna | Posted 01.25.2012

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Mike Ragogna

According to Vince Mendoza, the idea of his latest record was partly to embrace the various musicians that he's met over the years and to invite his old friends to participate in his music.

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"BU On Broadway" Puts on Controversial Musical

Cody Brotter | Posted 01.15.2012

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Cody Brotter

It's a rare event to see a stage full of people in Nazi uniforms who heil Hitler several times within an hour. It's especially rare on a Bostonian college campus.

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Matthew Broderick Returns To Broadway

AP | Posted 08.16.2011

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NEW YORK -- Matthew Broderick is returning to Broadway in a musical next spring built around George and Ira Gershwin's songs. Producers said Thursday...

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Matthew Broderick, Who Do You Think You Are?

Megan Smolenyak | Posted 05.25.2011

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Megan Smolenyak

Matthew Broderick found success at an early age with his memorable performance in Ferris Bueller's Day Off. His efforts to trace his family history unearthed a legacy of quiet heroes.

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Moseley Braun Wins Big Endorsement, Compares Rahm's Persona To Hitler

Posted 05.25.2011

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UPDATE: Rahm Emanuel said during a Monday night mayoral forum that Carol Moseley Braun's comments were not being interpreted correctly. Read more here...

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A Nutcracker to Shun

George Heymont | Posted 05.25.2011

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George Heymont

Over the years, I've seen some pretty awful movies. None, however, has been as expensive, as overproduced, as idiotic, as appalling, or as stupefyingly reprehensible as the The Nutcracker in 3D.

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"The Producers," The Maverick Theater

James Scarborough | Posted 05.25.2011

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James Scarborough

Giving nifty little twists to each imaginable theatrical stereotype, the cast had the audience eating out of their hands, as did the formidable Ensemble.

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2010: The Year We Make Contact

Mike Ragogna | Posted 05.25.2011

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Mike Ragogna

Can the music business take a page from the movie industry's playbook and figure out how to reconnect people to music in a more personal way?

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2,000+ Words for the 2,000 Year Old Man: Mel Brooks Is Saluted by the Academy

Gregory Weinkauf | Posted 05.25.2011

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Gregory Weinkauf

Cloris Leachman aptly put it, "There is much that is serious about Mel Brooks. Inside that rapid-fire humor machine is a man with deep emotions, with a great capacity to care, and to love."

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A Hilariously Tasteless Birth of a Notion

Marshall Fine | Posted 05.25.2011

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Marshall Fine

Without films like Carl Reiner's Where's Poppa? we wouldn't have had the Farrelly brothers, the Judd Apatow machine or a lot of other comedy that's fairly commonplace today.

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