Outrageous delights at The Little Theatre

SEX-STARVED Grannies dancing with Zimmer frames, tap-dancing Nazi stormtroopers, dancing girls who are happy to “flaunt it” across the stage and a sprinkling of fourletter words... These are the components of one of the most offensive, hilarious and utterly magnificent musicals of all time.

Written and directed by Mel Brooks, 1967 film The Producers is a classic comedy starring Zero Mostel and Gene Wilder. After the film’s success, working with Thomas Meehan, Brooks adapted the musical to run on a Broadway stage, where it opened on April 19, 2001, starring Matthew Broderick and Nathan Lane.

Over the next six years, the show was performed 2,502 times and received a staggering 12 Tony Awards. A successful version of the show also ran in London for over more than two years, followed by ours in America and in the UK. In 2005 a second film, based upon the musical, was produced, starring Broderick, Lane, Will Ferrell and Uma Thurman.

In Leicester, local amateur group The Idols performed their version of the Musical in 2013 and in 2019 the show was revived in Loughborough by LAOS.

Now it’s the turn of LOPs (Leicester Amateur Operatic Society) to present this truly hilarious show.

From Tuesday, March 31 until Saturday, April 4, the boards of The Little Theatre, in Dover Street will echo to the sounds of singing as LOPs perform songs like Springtime for Hitler, If You’ve Got It, Flaunt it, Keep it Gay and many more hilarious songs.

If you are lucky enough to secure a seat for this fantastic musical, your sides will ache with laughter as our Director, Steve Elliott, and our Musical Director, James Stevens, retell the story of Max Bialystok (David Lovell) and Leopold Bloom (Matt Barton), who discover there is more money to be made from a Broadway flop than from a success.

They then go out of their way to find the worst script – Springtime for Hitler, by Franz Liebkind (Richard Walkden) – the worst directorial team, led by Roger De Bris (Martin Green) and the worst cast.

But by the show’s second act, the realisation dawns on an appalled Bialystok and Bloom that they have a hit on their hands...

Come along and enjoy the funniest show you will see this year! thelittletheatre.net/box-office/Tim Rupp, of LOPs