Tony Award-winner Roger Bart will reprise the role of Leo Bloom, opposite John Treacy Egan's Max Bialystock, in Broadway's The Producers beginning Tuesday, May 16th.
Hunter Foster currently plays meek accountant Bloom in
The Producers. The cast also features
Gary Beach as Roger DeBris,
Bill Nolte as Franz Liebkind,
Brad Musgrove as Carmen Ghia and
Angie Schworer as Ulla.
Bart, who earned a Tony Award nomination for creating the role of Carmen Ghia (and who reprised that role in the recent film version), played Leo on Broadway during three previous stints. Bart received 1999 Tony and Drama Desk Awards for Best Featured Actor in a Musical as Snoopy in the revival of
You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown. Other Broadway credits include
The Frogs, Triumph of Love, How to Succeed..., and
Big River, while national tour credits inlcude
The Secret Garden and
The Who's Tommy. Bart recently played George on "Desperate Housewives;" his other TV and film credits include
The Stepford Wives, Hercules, The Lady and the Tramp II, and "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit."
The Producers recently celebrated its 5th anniversary on Wednesday, April 19th. Based on Brooks' Academy Award-winning 1968 film of the same name,
"The Producers 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 you need for a sure-fire Broadway flop and pocket the difference. Their 'sure-fire' theatrical fiasco?. . . None other than the musical
Springtime for Hitler," according to press notes.
The musical, which originally starred
Nathan Lane and
Matthew Broderick, features a Tony Award-winning book by Brooks and
Thomas Meehan, Tony Award-winning music and lyrics by
Mel Brooks, and Tony Award-winning direction and choreography by
Susan Stroman. The musical also includes Tony Award-winning set design by Robin Wagner, Tony Award-winning costume design by
William Ivey Long, Tony Award-winning lighting design by Peter Kaczorowski, and sound design by Steve Kennedy.
The Producers is produced by Rocco Landesman, Live Nation, The Frankel · Baruch · Viertel · Routh Group, Bob and Harvey Weinstein, Rick Steiner, Robert F.X. Sillerman and
Mel Brooks, in association with James D. Stern and Douglas Meyer and by special arrangement with StudioCanal.
Tickets, which are scaled at $31.25 - $111.25, are on sale by phone through Tele-charge at (212) 239-6200 or
www.telecharge.com and in-person at The St. James Theatre, 246 West 44th Street. The playing schedule is Tuesday evening at 7 p.m., Wednesday through Saturday evenings at 8 p.m., Wednesday & Saturday matinees at 2 p.m., and Sunday matinees at 3 p.m.
