Mel Brooks's 1968 film makes even greater sense on the stage especially with the peerless Nathan Lane in the lead roleI adore Renoir. I revere Bergman. I bow at the altar of Tarkovsky. But not one of those directors' films have I watched as regularly, or do I know as intimately, as Mel Brooks's 1968 debut The Producers. Leo Bloom (Gene Wilder) is a meek accountant persuaded by the down-at-heel impresario Max Bialyst…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:00AM on May 26, 2014