VIDEO: On This Day, March 21: Kings of Broadway! THE PRODUCERS Begins A Sold-Out Broadway Run
On this day in 2000, previews began forMel Brooks' and Susan Stroman's hotly anticipated musical adaptation of his classic comedyThe Producers. Now an obsolete tradition in the age of technology as well a sign of the success to come, on this historic morning, alengthy line of ticket buyers madeits way down the street from the St. James box office, welcoming the buzzy new show to the neighborhood.