London Producers Offers Meet-and-Greet with Press
By James Inverne
08 Sep 2004
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Rocco Landesman (right), with original Producers star Nathan Lane
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| photo by Aubrey Reuben | Rehearsals got underway when the Producers' producers turned up for a meet-and-greet with their London cast Sept. 7. Lead U.S. producer Rocco Landesman made the journey from New York and presided along with Clear Channel impresario David Ian.
Writers Mel Brooks and Tom Meehan were also in attendance, and both played their part in welcoming the assembled company. Among the players milling around the South London rehearsal studios were Richard Dreyfuss and Lee Evans (London’s Max and Leo, respectively), Leigh Zimmerman (Ulla), Conleth Hill (Roger De Bris), Nicolas Colicos (Franz Liebkind) and James Dreyfus (Carmen Ghia, and, the pair revealed, Richard Dreyfuss’s cousin).
Talking through the production and displaying set drawings was director
Susan Stroman. She revealed that the show has brought her a new legion of
fans for an unexpected reason. Displaying the fake pigeons that perform
‘Heil Hitler’ gestures on the roof of Franz Liebkind’s apartment, she
said, “I’ve had thousands of letters thanking me for not using real pigeons. As if I would!” So grateful are bird fans to Stroman for not training live Nazi
birds, there have even been articles in magazines telling people to “be like Susan Stroman.”
The Producers begins previews at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane Oct. 22, with opening night on Nov. 9.
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