"The Producers" *** 1/2

Where: Beef & Boards Dinner Theatre - 9301 N. Michigan Road.

More info: www.beefandboards.com.

NUVO Says:
Nothing in film or on Broadway compares to the play within this Mel Brooks play, a fanciful romp called "Springtime for Hitler." Fortunately or unfortunately, most of the rest of the play merely amuses with intentional bad taste. Zero Mostel and Gene Wilder's insane comic performances (from the 1968 film) loom large over Douglas E. Stark and Eddie Curry's portrayals of the producers who try to milk fortune from a musical flop. They occasionally miss their beats when their comic confidence gives way to their characters' frenzy. No shadows hang over Jeff Stockberger, Elizabeth Broadhurst, Curt Dale Clark and the accountant balladeers or horny old ladies. Through Sept. 28. --Josefa Beyer