Tickets on sale for Tony Award-winning ‘Producers’

March 8, 2007

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — “The Producers, the new Mel Brooks musical” will make its Gainesville premiere at the Phillips Center for the Performing Arts in a limited engagement June 29 through July 1. Tickets go on sale at noon on March 9.

Based on Brooks’ Academy Award-winning 1968 film of the same name, “The Producers, the new Mel Brooks musical, is the story of down-on-his-luck theatrical producer Max Bialystock and Leo Bloom, a mousy accountant. Together, they hatch the ultimate scam: raise more money than needed for a sure-fire Broadway flop and pocket the difference. Their “sure-fire” theatrical fiasco? None other than the musical Springtime for Hitler.

“The Producers, the new Mel Brooks musical” swept the 2001 Tony Awards, receiving the most Awards in Broadway history, including Best Musical, Best Book of a Musical (Mel Brooks and Thomas Meehan), Best Original Score (Mel Brooks), Best Scenic Design (Robin Wagner), Best Costume Design (William Ivey Long), Best Lighting Design (Peter Kaczorowski), Best Orchestrations (Doug Besterman), Best Choreography and Best Direction of A Musical (Susan Stroman).

Tickets are available by calling the Phillips Center Box Office at 352-392-2787 or 800-905-ARTS or by calling Ticketmaster at 904-353-3309. Orders may be faxed to 352-846-1562. Tickets are also available at the Phillips Center Box Office, University Box Office at the University of Florida Reitz Student Union and all Ticketmaster outlets; and on the Web at www.ticketmaster.com. Tickets are $60, front orchestra and mezzanine; $50, midorchestra; $45, rear orchestra; and $40, balcony.