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‘The Producers’ Peach State’s monster of a comedy musical By Dean PolingMax’s “Betrayed” is a big “11 o’clock” number which Nathan Lane insisted Mel Brooks provide for the character. Brooks delivered a song that is comparable to Mama Rose’s show-stopping number in “Gypsy,” Wheeler says.
“The Producers” also has one of the most challenging bits, well a big production number actually, in musical theatre: “Springtime for Hitler.” Yes, the show within the show of “The Producers” is a musical about Adolf Hitler, not exactly a comedic figure, but Wheeler found direction while watching an interview with Mel Brooks. You can’t have a dictator talk his way into being funny. Talk is what demagogues and dictators do and do well. You have to make them look funny and that’s how you make them funny. “The Producers”: A monster of a show that can make a monster look ridiculous. THE CAST: Adrienne Brown, Carla Regina Olivar, John Allen Biles (Actors Equity Association), Johnny Machesko, Annie Freres, Jonathan David Willis, Marc Cornes, Caleb Spivey, Nick Mason, Luke Newsome, Sam Rueff, Julia VanderVeen, Stephanie Williams, Angela Kang, Antony Russell, Shelby Nichols, Jonathan Awori, Katie Barnett, Lana Grube, Adriana Gissendanner, Ellen Kahn, Joshua Walker, Katie Whalley. DIRECTION, PRODUCTION: Randy Wheeler, director; Jacque Wheeler, choreographer; Cristin Downs, production stage manager; Martha H. Cooper, costume coordinator; Joe Brashier, music director; Michael Elliott, vocal director; James M. Helms, technical director; Jimm Halliday, costume designer; Catherine Girardi & Keith Kirkland, lighting designers; Jason Courson, set designer. ORCHESTRA: Liz Brashier, keyboards; D.J. Creech, trumpet; Trent Harper, bass; Tim Hilgert, trombone; Allison C. Lingenfelter, rehearsal accompanist; Robert McCoy, reeds; Curtis Moody, percussion; Renee Terns, keyboards.
SHOWTIME Peach State Summer Theatre presents Mel Brooks’ “The Producers.” When: 7:30 p.m., June 26, 27, 30, July 2; 3 p.m., July 5; 7:30 p.m., July 7, 9, 10; 3 p.m., July 12; 7:30 p.m., July 14, 16, 18. 
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