There's a reason Mel Brooks The Producers has been a movie and a musical and a movie musical: You can't see it all the first time you see it. You can't hear it all, says Michael Barnard, producing artistic director at Phoenix Theatre. I must have seen the original movie 10, 15, 20 times, because every time I saw it I would hear a line I had never heard before." Expect Jon Gentry's portrayal of Max Bialystock to push the tuner into an alternate dimension of bravura snarkiness -- with heart, of course.
Wed., Sept. 24, 7:30 p.m.; Thu., Sept. 25, 7:30 p.m.; Fri., Sept. 26, 8 p.m.; Sat., Sept. 27, 3 & 8 p.m.; Sun., Sept. 28, 2 & 6:30 p.m.; Wed., Oct. 1, 7:30 p.m.; Thu., Oct. 2, 7:30 p.m.; Fri., Oct. 3, 8 p.m.; Sat., Oct. 4, 3 & 8 p.m.; Sun., Oct. 5, 2 & 6:30 p.m.; Tue., Oct. 7, 7:30 p.m.; Wed., Oct. 8, 7:30 p.m.; Thu., Oct. 9, 7:30 p.m.; Fri., Oct. 10, 8 p.m.; Sat., Oct. 11, 8 p.m.; Sun., Oct. 12, 2 p.m.; Wed., Oct. 15, 1 & 7:30 p.m.; Thu., Oct. 16, 7:30 p.m.; Fri., Oct. 17, 8 p.m.; Sat., Oct. 18, 3 & 8 p.m.; Sun., Oct. 19, 2 p.m., 2008