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WAYNESVILLE 'The Producers,' the Mel Brooks blockbuster musical comedy, arrives on stage this weekend in a huge production from Haywood Arts Regional Theatre, one of the nation's first playhouses to get rights to the show.

The Birdcage Decadent and tacky Miami is the perfect setting for this light-hearted farce in which a gay couple -- Robin Williams and Nathan Lane -- are forced to play it "straight" when their son announces that he's marrying a conservative Senator's daughter.

Stars Larry David, Evan Rachel Wood. Rated R. Opens Fri., July 3. At area theaters.

The booming voice on the other end of the line from his home in Orlando, Florida could very well be Mufasa, the iconic father figure, in The Lion King.

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To see or not to see? Should Ceal Phelan, playing the role of the insufferably righteous Sister Aloysius in the People's Light & Theatre Company stage version of Doubt, check out Meryl Streep's take on the same character in the recent movie? Should the two Bens - as lead actors Ben Lipitz and Ben Dibble are being referred to at the Walnut Street ...

With his lanky frame and styled red hair, Conan O'Brien looks nothing like a box of cornflakes or a tube of Colgate toothpaste.

Kooky! Addams Family is headed to Broadway. Sunday, May 17, 2009 09:06 AM Lan Pitts Stage When I had heard about an Addams family musical , one thought came to mind: "How come this hasn't been done already?" It has a theatrical A-list cast with Nathan Lane as the patriarch, Gomez and Bebe Neuwirth as Morticia.

Below are BroadwayWorld.com's most popular articles from 5/10/2009 - 5/17/2009. Catch up below on anything that you might have missed from the past week on BroadwayWorld.com! 1) BWW TV: Big Screen 'NINE THE MUSICAL' Official Trailer Released, Hits Cinemas on Nov.

The Addams Family musical has found its Gomez and Morticia - and a Canadian choreographer.

A couple of tidbits of Broadway news: a "The Addams Family" has found its merry macabre menagerie for Broadway.

"Producers" star Nathan Lane will play Gomez and "Frasier" wife Bebe Neuwirth will be Morticia in "The Addams Family" musical hitting Broadway next year.The musical will open April 8 following a pre-Broadway run in Chicago beginning in November.The rest of the family: Kevin Chamberlin as Uncle Fester, Jackie Hoffman as Grandma and Zachary James as ...

In keeping with our focus on the Tony Awards as the June 7 awards broadcast approaches, here's a look at The Addams Family , a new musical slated to debut on Broadway in March 2010, which features two-time Tony winners in the lead roles and two-time Tony nominees in supporting roles The musical is based on the single-pane New Yorker cartoons by ...

The Addams Family is to be made into a Broadway musical starring Nathan Lane, the show's producers have announced.

Two-time Tony Award winners Nathan Lane and Bebe Neuwirth will star as Gomez and Morticia Addams in the new Broadway musical version of The Addams Family .

Richard Ouzounian theatre critic NEW YORKa 'Have you ever looked forward with anticipation to a dinner party that you knew was going to feature four amazing guests, a skilled master chef and an impressive menu, only to realize at the evening's end that it was all ... well ... kind of a bore? That's pretty much what the Roundabout Theatre's new ...

Local theater companies may be struggling, but Charleston Stage amazingly wove its magic into Mel Brooks' musical "The Producers," which opened Thursday at the Sottile Theater.

I can hear Ulla in her bodice stretching white satin dress answering the Broadway phones of Bailystock and Bloom stretching out the ooooo of the Bloom in her thick, staged Danish accent.

Sarah Rudolph likes theater with a bite. In the past few years, the University of Wisconsin Marathon County director has helmed shows such as "Nickel and Dimed," "Dead Man Walking" and "Urinetown." They're works that can make people feel uncomfortable, get them talking and, she hopes, widens their perspective.

Tony Award winner Nathan Lane will host the Roundabout Theatre Company's big band-themed gala Take Me Back to Manhattan at Roseland Ballroom on April 6. Tony Award-winning director and choreographer Kathleen Marshall will stage the 9 PM musical revue that promises songs from Richard Rodgers, Cole Porter, Harold Arlen, Irving Berlin, Duke Ellington ...