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Mel Brooks

MEL BROOKS

  (1926 - )
Nationality:    USA
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Literary Agent:    Brooksfilms  

Mel Brooks's plays including biography, theatres, agent, synopses, cast sizes, production and published dates

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below is a list of Mel Brooks's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         All American         Arch And Mehitabel         Mel Brooks: Live In London         Producers, The         Shinbone Alley         Young Frankenstein

All American

All American
a professor finds that the only way he can get through to his football obsessed students in to couch his engineering lectures in football terms. This ultimately improves the college team's performances

Notes:
by Mel Brooks, Music by Charles Strouse; lyrics by Lee Adams

1st Produced:
Winter Garden Theater, New York    1962

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Dramatic Publishing   -

Music:
Original cast recording: Sony ( SK-48216) 1962

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Genre:
Musical

Parts:
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Arch And Mehitabel

Synopsis:
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Notes:
Written by Mel Brooks And Joe Darion; music by George Kleinsinger; lyrics by Joe Darion. Based on the book by Don Marquis. Original title of the musical was was "Shinbone Alley"

1st Produced:
Broadway Theater, New York    1957

Organisations:
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1st Published:
-   -

Music:
Original cast recording: Legend (6009/10) 1957

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Genre:
Musical

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Mel Brooks: Live In London

Synopsis:
combines humble-origin story, celeb namedropping and anecdotes

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1st Produced:

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
solo piece

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Producers, The

Producers, The
It was, of course, Mel Brooks's 1968 film that introduced the Producers to the world; his still-unbeatable comic idea of staging the worst show ever written-a "gay romp with adolph and eva" called "Springtime for Hitler"-remains the indispensable center of this comic fable about a down-on-his-luck producer named Max Bialystock who teams with a nebbishy accountant named Leo Bloom to scam a pack of little old ladies out of two million dollars. Brooks's stamp is everywhere in this show: extravagantly effete Carmen Ghia tells Bialystock and Bloom to "walk this way"-and they do; unrepentant Nazi Franz Liebkind launches into a tirade of protest when he senses danger ("Ve didn't even know there vas a war. Ve lived in ze back."). Zany, outrageous, outlandish, over-the-top-none of these words begins to describe the nonstop hilarity and really broad satire that the Producers is. everything that made American musical comedy (and vaudeville, and burlesque) great--slapstick, corny jokes, beautiful chorus girls, Borscht Belt shtick, ethnic jokes poking fun at every imaginable constituency, more beautiful chorus girls, unsubtle dirty jokes, hummable melodies, vigorous tap dancing, opulent and entirely unmotivated musical numbers, and some more beautiful chorus girls--it's all here, unabashed, the way that Brooks has celebrated it throughout his career. We just never thought we'd actually get to see it on stage."
nytheatre.com

Notes:
music And lyrics by Mel Brooks; book by Mel Brooks And Thomas Meehan

1st Produced:
St. James Theatre, Ny    2001

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
Original cast recording:Sony (SK 89646) 2001

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Genre:
Musical

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Shinbone Alley

Shinbone Alley
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Notes:
Music by George Kleinsinger; lyrics by Joe Darion; book by Mel Brooks

1st Produced:
Broadway Theatre, New York    1957

Organisations:
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1st Published:
-   -

Music:
Original cast recording: Legend (6009/10) 1957

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Genre:
Musical

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Young Frankenstein

Young Frankenstein
Frederick Frankenstein arrives at the castle in Transylvania that he has inherited. He finds Igor is still living there. When Frederick discovers his grandfather's secret laboratory - he decides to carry on his work - and create his own monster

Notes:
Book by Mel Brooks And Thomas Meehan; Music by Mel Brooks; Lyrics by Mel Brooks

1st Produced:
Hilton Theatre, New York    11 Oct 2007

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
Original cast recording: Universal/Decca Broadway 2007

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Genre:
Musical

Parts:
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