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...Broadway Revivalist Thomas Meehan has a knack for turning films like The Producers into Broadway hits...
DIED. DOROTHY LOUDON, 70, brassy comic actress best remembered for her Tony-winning performance as the dastardly Miss Hannigan in the Broadway musical Annie; of cancer; in New York City...
...explains. "He said I looked too much like a New Yorker in my black dress shoes." The munificent Mel is Mel Brooks, and the bond between Meehan and Brooks has been that much stronger since the duo teamed up to spin Brooks' 1968 film The Producers into a Broadway hit--an effort that earned both men Tonys...
When it comes to recasting films as Broadway musicals, Meehan's got cachet in movie circles. Last year he helped turn John Waters' 1988 cult film Hairspray into a Broadway blockbuster. Waiting in the wings--until he completes revisions of the London hit Bombay Dreams for New York audiences--is Sylvester Stallone's Rocky...
...twister names. He adapted it as a sketch for Anne Bancroft's 1970 television special, Annie: The Women in the Life of a Man, which not only won him an Emmy but also introduced him to both its director and producer, Martin Charnin, who later offered him his first Broadway show, and his future writing partner, Bancroft's husband, Mel Brooks...