‘The funniest musical of all time’
Broadway World
SOLD OUT!
MARCH 2021
BRISBANE POWERHOUSE
'A comic free-for-all’
Ben Brantley,
New York Times
Book by MEL BROOKS & THOMAS MEEHAN
Music and Lyrics by MEL BROOKS
Original Direction and Choreography by SUSAN STROMAN
By Special arrangement with Studio Canal
Licensed exclusively by Music Theatre International (Australia)
Director and Choreographer: JOSEPH SIMONS
Musical Director: JACQUI DEVEREUX
Producer: ADAM GARDNIR
Associate Producer: SAM KLINGNER for SK Entertainment
Presented by Altitude Theatre at Brisbane Powerhouse
THE SHOW
Outrageous. Zany. Hilarious. An equal opportunity offender!
Winner of a record twelve Tony Awards, The Producers is the blockbuster hit musical written by comedic genius Mel Brooks. A fading Broadway producer and his mousy accountant devise a brilliant scam:
to produce the worst musical ever to hit Broadway,
guaranteed to close on opening night…
Leave your prejudice at the door and prepare to laugh out loud with this fresh, made-in-Queensland season of a classic!
THE CAST
Matt Young as MAX BIALYSTOCK
Mark Hill as LEO BLOOM
Rachael Ward as ULLA
James Lee as ROGER DE BRIS
Alex Watson as CARMEN GHIA
Patrick Conolly as FRANZ LIEBKIND
Chloe Taylor as HOLD ME TOUCH ME
Jackson Reedman as STORMTROOPER
Ensemble includes Gabriella Boumford, Maddison Coleman, Austin Cornish, Shay Debney, Jasper Filshe,
Lachlan Griffith, Stephen Hirst, Dominique Milne, Kurt Myhill,
Dhuruva Padmanabhan, Melissa Russo,
Tyson Stuetz and Emma Whitefield
CREATIVE TEAM
JOSEPH SIMONS
Director and Choreographer
A graduate of Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts, Joseph Simons is a director, choreographer and performer in the forms of ballet, contemporary dance, physical theatre and music theatre. He has created new works for West Australian Ballet, Flying Fruit Fly Circus, Chunky Move, Lucy Guerin Inc., Force Majeure, Queensland University of Technology and Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University. Joseph’s Director and/or Choreographer credits include the musicals Miss Saigon, Company, Carousel, Peter Pan, The 20’s and All That Jazz and Fame!
After winning Outstanding Emerging Artist at the Australian Dance Awards in 2010, Joseph was selected as the 2013 Tanja Liedtke Fellow to undertake residencies at Ufer Studios, Berlin, the International Choreographic Laboratory, Frankfurt and the Margot Fonteyn Academy of Dance, New York, where he premiered his first full-length solo work, First Things First.
As part of a national 2019/2020 tour, Joseph was most recently seen at Brisbane Powerhouse in a sold-out season of his second solo show titled 100 Years Of The History Of Dance As Told By One Man In 60 Minutes With An Energetic Group Finale.
www.josephsimons.com.au
