The Producers: A Mel Brooks Musical | Tickets & Information

was the recipient of three 2001 Tony Awards (Best Score, Best Book of a Musical, Best Musical) and two Grammy Awards (Best Musical Show Album and Best Long Form Music Video) for The Producers. Mr. Brooks began his distinguished career in 1951 during television’s Golden Age as a writer for Sid Caesar on Your Show of Shows. In 1955 and 1957, Brooks received Emmy Award nominations (with others) for best comedy writing for Caesar’s Hour, and in 1956 he was nominated (with others) for best writing for a variety or situation comedy. Brooks wrote sketches for Leonard Sillman’s Broadway smash-hit revue, New Faces of 1952, and in 1957, together with Joe Darion, wrote the book for the Broadway musical Shinbone Alley, which starred Eartha Kitt. He later wrote the book for the Broadway musical All-American, starring Ray Bolger. In the ‘60s, Brooks teamed up with Carl Reiner to write and perform The 2000 Year Old Man albums, which became immediate bestsellers. In 1960 and 1961, Brooks and Reiner received Grammy Award nominations for Best Spoken Word Comedy for 2000 Years and Best Comedy Performance for 2000 and One Years, respectively. Brooks and Reiner reunited in 1997 for The 2000 Year Old Man in the Year 2000. Both a book and CD were released, with the CD winning a Grammy Award in 1998 for Best Spoken Word Album: Comedy. Brooks wrote and narrated The Critic, a short satire on avant-garde art films that received the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film. The following year, he teamed up with Buck Henry to create Get Smart, the long-running television series starring Don Adams as Agent 86. Brooks, along with others, received an Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing Achievement in Comedy-Variety in 1967 for The Sid Caesar, Imogene Coca, Carl Reiner, Howard Morris Special. He wrote and directed his first feature film, The Producers (1968), starring Zero Mostel and Gene Wilder, earning an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. He then went on to create a remarkable string of hit comedies: The Twelve Chairs (1970), Blazing Saddles (1974), Young Frankenstein (1974), Silent Movie (1976), High Anxiety (1977), History of the World, Part I (1981), To Be or Not to Be (1983), Spaceballs (1987), Life Stinks (1991), Robin Hood: Men in Tights (1993), and Dracula: Dead and Loving It (1995). For three successive seasons, Brooks won the Emmy Award for his role as Uncle Phil on NBC’s hit sitcom, Mad About You. Brooks founded Brooksfilms Limited in 1980, producing some of America’s most distinguished films, including David Lynch’s The Elephant Man, David Cronenberg’s The Fly, Frances, Richard Benjamin’s My Favorite Year, and 84 Charing Cross Road, starring Anthony Hopkins and Mr. Brooks’ wife, Anne Bancroft. Brooks is one of the few entertainers to achieve EGOT status. Following the record-breaking success of The Producers on Broadway (12 Tony Awards), he adapted Young Frankenstein for the stage, returned as writer, producer, and narrator of History of the World, Part II (2023), and is currently producing and reprising his role as Yogurt in the forthcoming Spaceballs sequel.

received the Tony Award for co-writing the book for The Producers in 2001 and in 2003 for co-writing the book for Hairspray. He received his first Tony Award in 1977 for writing the book of Annie, which was his first Broadway show, and has written the books for the musicals Rocky, Elf the Musical, Cry-Baby, Young Frankenstein, Chaplin, Bombay Dreams, I Remember Mama, Ain’t Broadway Grand, and Annie Warbucks. In addition, he was a long-time contributor of humor to The New Yorker, an Emmy-Award winning writer of television comedy, and a collaborator on a number of screenplays, including Mel Brooks’ Spaceballs and To Be Or Not To Be. Mr. Meehan was also a member of the Council of the Dramatists Guild. He and his wife, Carolyn, divided their time between a home in Nantucket and an apartment in Greenwich Village, near which, on Hudson Street, she owned and presided over the long-running and near-legendary children’s store Peanut Butter & Jane.

A five-time Tony Award winning director and choreographer most known for Crazy for You, Contact, The Scottsboro Boys, and The Producers. Her work has been honored with Olivier, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle, Lucille Lortel and a record six Astaire Awards. She directed and choreographed The Producers, winner of a record-making 12 Tony Awards including Best Direction and Best Choreography. She co-created, directed and choreographed the Tony Award-winning musical Contact for Lincoln Center Theater, which was honored with a 2003 Emmy Award for “Live from Lincoln Center.” She directed and choreographed the critically acclaimed musical The Scottsboro Boys on Broadway and in the West End, where it was honored with the 2014 Evening Standard Award for Best Musical. Other Broadway: Oklahoma!, Show Boat, Prince of Broadway, Bullets Over Broadway, Big Fish, Young Frankenstein, Thou Shalt Not, The Music Man, The Frogs, Big, Steel Pier, Picnic, and Crazy for You. Off-Broadway: The Beast in the Jungle, Dot, Flora the Red Menace, And the World Goes ‘Round, Happiness, and The Last Two People on Earth: An Apocalyptic Vaudeville starring Mandy Patinkin and Taylor Mac. For ten years she choreographed Madison Square Garden’s annual spectacular A Christmas Carol. She made her Metropolitan Opera debut directing and choreographing The Merry Widow, starring Renée Fleming. Her London West End productions include Crazy for You, Oklahoma!, Show Boat, Contact, The Producers, and Young Frankenstein. For New York City Ballet, she created Double Feature, a full-length ballet featuring the music of Irving Berlin and Walter Donaldson, and For the Love of Duke, featuring the music of Duke Ellington. Other ballet credits include But Not For Me for the Martha Graham Company and Take Five…More or Less for Pacific Northwest Ballet. Her choreography received an Emmy Award nomination for the HBO presentation Liza – Live from Radio City Music Hall, starring Liza Minnelli. She received the American Choreography Award for her work in Columbia Pictures feature film Center Stage. She directed and choreographed The Producers: The Movie Musical, nominated for 4 Golden Globes. She directed and choreographed the Broadway-bound Ahrens/Flaherty musical Marie for The 5th Avenue Theater in Seattle. In collaboration with the Williamstown Theatre Festival, she directed the play Photograph 51 for Audible. She is an Associate Director for Lincoln Center Theater and a member of the Board of Directors for the Ronald O. Perelman Center for the Performing Arts located at the World Trade Center. She is the recipient of the George Abbott Award for Lifetime Achievement in the American Theater and an inductee of the Theater Hall of Fame in New York City. susanstroman.com

returns to The Playhouse having previously choreographed Young Frankenstein (2021). Director credits: Forever Broadway, Nunsense, The Full Monty, Big Fish, Peg O’ My Heart (Best Musical Award), Young Frankenstein (Nat’l Tour), The Producers (Tokyo). Choreographer credits: The Pilot and The Little Prince-Cyber Musical (world premiere); Annie starring Tony Award-winner Karen Ziemba; The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Oliver! (Goodspeed Opera House). Associate Director/Choreographer credits: A Christmas Story: The Musical. TV/Film: Humor Me (choreographer), Madam Secretary (K-POP number, CBS), Mel Brooks: The AFI Lifetime Achievement Award in Hollywood (staging). James was the associate choreographer for FATWA: The Musical starring Lin Manuel Miranda and Larry David for HBO’s Curb Your Enthusiasm. Performer credits: Original Broadway casts of The Producers, Young Frankenstein, Bullets Over Broadway, Prince of Broadway; Original London casts of The Producers, Disney’s Beauty and The Beast, Mack and Mabel, Me and My Girl, Hello Dolly in Concert (with Carol Channing), The Styne Way Gala (with Rita Moreno and Chita Rivera); The Producers: The Movie (Little Old Lady). James is currently creating a Pop Culture Spectacular “DARE!” with legendary designer Bob Mackie. jamesgrayofficial.com

JESSE KISSEL (Music Supervisor) is an Emmy and Grammy nominated Musical Director, Conductor, Pianist, Arranger, and Orchestrator. Broadway: Chicago, The Visit, Days of Wine and Roses, The Cher Show, Leap of Faith, Spiderman: Turn Off the Dark, Cirque Du Soleil’s: Paramour, Bright Star, Ragtime (Avery Fisher Hall 15th Anniversary Concert). Nat’l/Int’l: Chicago. Regional: Kid Victory (Signature Theatre, DC), The Visit (Williamstown Theatre Festival), The Scottsboro Boys (Center Theatre Group, LA), Titanic, Cats (The Muny). Producer and Arranger of “The Randy Rainbow Show” on YouTube—2022 Emmy Nominated. Executive Producer and Arranger of “A Little Brains, A Little Talent” by Randy Rainbow—2023 Grammy Nominated Best Comedy Album. Cabaret/Concerts: Randy Rainbow, Live! (Live Nation Tour). Cabaret/Concert Work: TOVAH: Out Of Her Mind (Tovah Feldshuh), Aaron Lazar (The Kennedy Center, Birdland, 54 Below, and Joe’s Pub). Co-Founder and Co-Producer/Founder of NEW NEXT NOW (https://www.stagedoor.org/new-next-now) a concert musical initiative centered around the development of new works by emerging musical theatre artists based in New York City.  BFA from The Boston Conservatory, and an MM from Cincinnati Conservatory of Music in Orchestral Conducting.

is a native of North Carolina and a product of home schooling, the University of NC School of the Arts (high school), and UNC Greensboro (college), where he studied Piano Performance. He has worked with such artists as Stephanie Mills, Roberta Flack, Tony Terry, Melba Moore, Bebe Winans, Cook, Dixon and Young, Phylicia Rashad, Mario Cantone, Brian McKnight, and Ashford & Simpson. He has also accompanied Jennifer Holiday, Norm Lewis, Tituss Burgess, Brenda Braxton, and Leslie Odom Jr. in concert. He is very proud to have been part-time pianist, arranger, and background singer for Bette Midler for nearly ten years. While working with her, he made his Carnegie Hall debut, a concert hosted by James Taylor. Brian has subbed for many Broadway shows such as Violet, Shuffle Along, and The Color Purple. He made his Broadway debut with Chicago the musical and worked on that production for 14 years, while making his conducting debut on the same show. Brian now lives in Wilmington and works as Music Director of the Opera House Theater Company. 

is thrilled to make his Ogunquit Playhouse debut. Off Broadway: Heidi: A New Musical, After Pinocchio: A New Musical (Signature Theatre). Int’l: Evil Dead: The Musical (Australian Tour), Dracula the Ballet (Australian Tour), School of Rock (Hunter Drama, Newcastle, AUS), Disney’s Mary Poppins (Soddart Entertainment, Newcastle, AUS | CONDA Award for Best Scenic Design), Disney’s Frozen (Babirra Music Theatre, Melbourne, AUS). Recent Regional: Guys and Dolls (Shenandoah Summer Music Theatre); The Producers (City Springs Theatre); Annie (Arts Center of Coastal Carolina); Waitress (Saugatuck Center for the Arts); Starkid’s VHS Christmas Carols (Apollo Theater Chicago); Cats, Grease (Main Street Theatre). Eric is a member of USA 829. You can see more of his work at ericluchen.com and @ericluchendesigns

has enjoyed a long and varied career designing lighting for Off-Broadway, Regional Theatre, Corporate Events, Dance, and Opera. He has also enjoyed a decades-long relationship with Ogunquit Playhouse. Recent Playhouse productions include: Hello, Dolly!,  Ain’t Too Proud, Come From Away, Waitress, When Elvis Met The Beatles, High Society, Crazy For You, A Little Night Music, Little Shop of Horrors. Other Favorites: An American in Paris, Hunchback of Notre Dame, Ragtime, Evita (twice), 1776. Thanks to his Electrics team, Associates, Programmers, and Technical Staff – who are all amazing.

is a six time Tony Award-winning Costume Designer. He most recently designed A Christmas Story, Live! for FOX, The Prince of Broadway for legendary director Hal Prince, and the revised stage musical Young Frankenstein in London’s West End for Mel Brooks, having previously designed the original Broadway production in 2009. William was nominated for an Emmy Award for his work on Grease: Live!, and the re-imagination of The Rocky Horror Picture Show (starring Laverne Cox and Tim Curry) for FOX. Broadway: On The Twentieth Century, Cabaret (1998, 2014), Bullets Over Broadway, Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella (Tony Award), Big Fish, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Don’t Dress for Dinner, Hugh Jackman: Back on Broadway, Catch Me If You Can, Pal Joey, 9 to 5, Curtains, Grey Gardens (Tony Award), The Producers (Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle Awards), A Streetcar Named Desire, La Cage aux Folles, The Boy from Oz, Hairspray (Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle Awards), Contact (Hewes Award), The Music Man, Annie Get Your Gun, Swing, Smokey Joe’s Café, Crazy for You (Tony, Outer Critics Circle Awards), Guys and Dolls (Drama Desk Award), A Christmas Carol. Six Degrees of Separation, Lend Me a Tenor (Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle Awards), Nine (Tony, Drama Desk, Maharam Awards). Off-Broadway: The Belle of Amherst with Joely Richardson, Bunty Berman Presents, Lucky Guy, The School for Lies.

is pleased to return to Ogunquit Playhouse as the Costume Shop Supervisor for year seven. OP: Titanic, Guys and Dolls, Waitress, Disney’s Frozen at The Music Hall, The Cher Show, Beautiful, Elf at The Music Hall. Jill spends the off-season in the costume shop for Norwegian Cruise Line and installing shows on Virgin Voyages. She also enjoys baking, tap dancing, and hanging out with her niblings. All the love to the fam: J, S, T, M, F, J, C, M, N, T.

is filled with gratitude to be returning for his 13th season at this incredible institution. He has designed more than 40 productions at The Playhouse including Ragtime (IRNE Award for Best Sound Design), Ain’t Too Proud, Hello, Dolly!, City of Angels, Titanic, Guys and Dolls, Come From Away (BWW Maine Award for Best Sound Design), Little Shop of Horrors, Waitress, Beautiful, The Da Vinci Code, The Nutty Professor, The Cher Show, Young Frankenstein (BWW Maine Award for Best Sound Design), Cabaret, Kinky Boots, and The Hunchback of Notre Dame. Off–Broadway: Lizard Boy (2024 Drama Desk Nomination for Outstanding Musical), ¡Americano!, Einstein’s Dreams, The Hello Girls, In & Of Itself, Midnight at The Never Get, and more. Broadway (Associate Sound Designer): Good Night Oscar, The Minutes, All The Way, The Cherry Orchard, The Country House. Kevin has designed the sound for dozens of productions at regional theaters across the country and internationally from London to Manila. In addition to his sound design work, Kevin is a lead producer on the internationally renowned tour, The Jinkx & DeLa Holiday Show, starring drag superstars BenDeLaCreme and Jinkx Monsoon. Proud member of United Scenic Artists, Local USA 829, IATSE. HeardSoundDesign.com @thekevinheard

Ogunquit Playhouse: Ain’t Too Proud, Hello, Dolly!, City of Angels, Guys and Dolls, High Society, When Elvis Met the Beatles, My Best Friend’s Wedding, Little Shop of Horrors, Crazy for You, A Little Night Music, Waitress, Sound of Music, Tootsie, The New Broadway Musical (Regional Premiere), Da Vinci Code (American Premiere), Singing In The Rain, Beautiful, The Carole King Musical, Mr. Hollands Opus The New Musical (World Premiere), The Nutty Professor, The Cher Show, Young Frankenstein, Mystic Pizza (World Premiere), Escape to Margaritaville, Annie the Musical, Kinky Boots, Menopause, Cabaret, 42nd Street, Elf the Musical. Cleveland Playhouse: Amadeus, Light It UP! (World Premiere). Two River Theater: The Scarlet Letter (World Premiere). Big League Productions: The Cher Show 1st National Tour, North Carolina Theater: Beautiful, The Carole King Musical (2023) Kinky Boots (2020). Tuacahn: Beautiful, The Carole King Musical (2023). Playmakers Repertory Company LORT-D: My Fair Lady, Intimate Apparel (2017). She was born and raised in El Paso, TX. Graduate with her Master of Arts from University of Cincinnati- Conservatory of Music in Wig & Makeup Design, 2015.

150+ productions across the globe and 13 Artios Awards for Casting. Broadway/NYC: Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, Disney’s The Lion King, Chicago, Gotta Dance, Othello, Real Women Have Curves, A Wonderful World, Life of Pi, Hadestown, Great Comet of 1812, Christmas Spectacular Starring the Radio City Rockettes, 39 Steps, Pippin, La Cage aux Folles. TV/Film: Netflix, 20th Century Fox, NBC, Lionsgate, Disney Channel. West End/U.K.: Hadestown, Thriller Live, Menier Chocolate Factory. Tours: The Music Man, 1776, Hairspray, Waitress, Urinetown, Finding Neverland, Into the Woods, We Will Rock You. Regional: A.R.T., Berkeley Rep, Alley, Bay Street, Goodspeed, Hollywood Bowl, McCarter, Signature. ARC, Part of RWS Global. castingbyarc.com @castingbyarc 

is an NYC-based Music Supervisor, Conductor, Arranger, and Coordinator. Broadway: & Juliet, Redwood, Diana: The Musical, Once on This Island, Escape to Margaritaville, Dear Evan Hansen, Come From Away, Anastasia, Bandstand, Paramour, Finding Neverland. Nat’l/Int’l Tours: Hamilton, Tales from Margaritaville, Rogers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella, Prince of Broadway. TV/Film: Schmigadoon!, Diana: The Musical, Jesus Christ Superstar Live!, Peter Pan Live! Haley also supervises projects for NBCUniversal, at Radio City Music Hall, and is a Recording Coordinator for Broadway cast albums. BA in Psychology from Harvard University, originally from Maine!
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saw his first Ogunquit Playhouse production at the age of eleven. In the (many) years since, he has stage managed numerous productions at the Playhouse and at theaters around the country. Special thanks to his family.

is happy to be back at The Playhouse! OP as choreographer: Disney’s Frozen at The Music Hall, Disney’s Descendants Jr. for the Arts Academy. OP as a performer: Crazy for You (Irene Roth), The Cher Show (Georgia/Lucille Ball), Annie (Lily St. Regis), Mamma Mia (Tanya), Chicago (Roxie). Broadway: Some Like it Hot (Minnie), The Prom (Angie), The Producers (Ulla with Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick), Something Rotten, Big Fish, Catch Me if You Can, Young Frankenstein, Annie Get Your Gun, Chicago, Sunset Boulevard, Crazy for You, The Will Rogers Follies. Met Opera: The Merry Widow (Grisette). Regional: Annie (Miss Hannigan), Come From Away (Bonnie Harris), Beautiful (Genie Klein), 42nd Street (Dorothy Brock), Disaster The Musical (Jackie), Always a Bridesmaid (Monette), Sweet Charity (Nikki), Damn Yankees (Lola), The Full Monty (Vicki), Minsky’s (Ginger), The Will Rogers Follies (Z’s Fav). TV: Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Smash (NBC), Queer Eye, As the World Turns, The Kennedy Center Honors. Film: The Producers.

is pleased to make his return to Ogunquit Playhouse. OP: Ain’t Too Proud, 42nd Street. Broadway: BOOP!, A Wonderful World. Off-Broadway: Pal Joey (New York City Center). Regional: Cambodian Rock Band (TheaterSquared), RENT (OSF), A Chorus Line (PSF), Presencia (Bushwick Starr), Soft Magical Tofu Boys (O’Neill Center), Evelyn: A New Musical (Dixon Place), Indecent (Waterwell Productions/PPAS), The Adventures of Honey and Leon (NYCCT), Group Therapy (WOW Cafe Theater), James and the Giant Peach (Chance Theater), Cabaret (Gallery Players). Jason is a collaborator with GIBNEY, The Joyce Theater, The New School, Circle in the Square Theater School, and the Lee Strasberg Institute. jasonliebson.com

is pleased to return to Ogunquit Playhouse this season. OP: Escape to Margaritaville (PA), Frozen Jr (SM). Nat’l Tour: The Sound of Music (ASM), Peter Pan (PSM), Hairspray (ASM). Thank you for supporting the arts! @megan_belgam.

is pleased to make his Ogunquit Playhouse debut. Off-Broadway: Carnival (J2 Spotlight MT), Ai Yah Goy Vey (Pan Asian Rep). Regional: A Chorus Line (Barrington Stage); Annie, Million Dollar Quartet, The Mousetrap, Sylvia (Sharon Playhouse); Sickle (Theatre Novi Most); Sweet Charity (Artistry Theater); Bonnie & Clyde (Collide Theatrical Dance); Interact’s Greatest Hits (Interact Center); La bohème (Lyric Opera of the North); Sound Of Music (Duluth Playhouse); Othello: The Remix (Minneapolis Musical Theatre); The 39 Steps, Souvenir, The Thin Place (Acadia Rep); Matt & Ben (Nocturnal Giraffe). Cameron sends thanks to his family and friends back home and across the country. @fleckcam