The Producers: A Flop That Shows Why Theatre Works

“The Producers has a litany of things that are wrong with it as long as Elton John’s wedding guest list. But the faults are instructive in the ways that they demonstrate why theatre has survived the onslaught of cinema and TV and why movies can be turned into great musicals, but seldom the other way round. The flaws flap around the film like munchkins in the Wizard of Oz.”