Musical Alexis Michalik stages Mel Brooks Producers - Musical Alexis Michalik will stage “The Producers” by Mel Brooks!

The author of "Edmond" and "Carrier d'Histoire" begins to play a musical next September by adapting this multi-award-winning film to the United States.

After a film, a novel, five plays, of course, which he wrote and directed and which are currently all being played in Paris, Alexis Michalik, the little prodigy of French theater will tackle the musical. The director will stage next September at the Théâtre de Paris "Les Producteurs", a film directed by Mel Brooks in 1968, which the latter himself adapted on stage in 2001.

Musical Alexis Michalik stages Mel Brooks Producers

"Obviously, I like to renew myself", Michalik explained to us last week on the occasion of his new play, "A Love Story", currently at La Scala, which breaks with the stories with drawers to which he has accustomed His public. "I'm interested in doing something that I didn't do, that's why I made a film, that I wrote a novel, I like to go on an adventure ... Artistic, tackle a genre I don't know at all. For that you need a story above all. "

For his next scenic project, the story will therefore be that of the "Producers": Max Bialystock, Broadway producer in bankruptcy who goes crazy to extract money from wealthy octogenarians, Leo Bloom shy and neurotic accountant, who s 'combine to mount the worst spectacle to enrich themselves on the back of insurance. Only, the most void of musicals, written by a former Nazi entitled "The Spring of Hitler", and edited by the most cheesy of directors, will prove to be a success ...

A play performed 2,500 times in New York

This wacky and iconoclastic comedy earned Mel Brooks the Oscar for best original screenplay for his film. Its stage version has been played more than 2,500 times in New York and won a record - unmatched in Broadway history - of 12 Tony Awards.

“The question is not why mount The Producers. The question is: why has The Producers never been staged in Paris? The show was such a success in the world, it is culturally close to the French audience, the comedy is hilarious, the songs not less. So why? Honestly, no idea. But this is very good news, because we will have the pleasure of tackling it! "Explains the director of" Edmond ", fond of musicals, in the press release announcing the project.

"The show has everything to please the French"

Laurent Bentata, general manager of Stage Entertainment France who co-produces, speaks of a "UFO (unidentifiable living work)" to evoke the show he discovered in 2006, "neither really a musical, nor really a play, a bit like a piece of boulevard that would have been embellished with large sung numbers and passed through a sieve of absurd humor, "he continues.

“The show has everything to please French spectators, an audience that has always welcomed Mel Brooks, like directors and directors in the same crazy vein, like the Woody Allen of the first films or the Monthy Python. Produced by Stage, therefore, in collaboration with the Théâtre de Paris, Acme - the producer of Alexis Michalik - and Arts Live Entertainment, the musical will be shown for the first time in France and in French. Hearings begin on February 11, 2020.