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...skin you." By last Monday, just four days before the first preview, Dreyfuss was out of the show. A press release blamed a recurring shoulder injury, but industry watchers are skeptical as to why Dreyfuss waited until a week before previews to produce a sick note. Lead producer Rocco Landesman has stuck to the medical story but concedes that Dreyfuss's behavior was irritating: "You don't want your star performer to go on TV and say, 'Don't come and see this show.'" Co - writer Tom Meehan is more blunt. "Musicals aren't fun to rehearse," he says. "These...
...after just 30 performances, says he loves the show, but the role can crush a star's creativity: "I wasn't allowed to try anything, not one step, that was different. Mel Brooks said to me, 'Go and see Nathan Lane every day and do what he does.'" Even Landesman acknowledges the enormous energy and patience needed to nail the role. "Casting Max," he says, "is a constant problem." Bringing The Producers to London also raises the question of whether hit musicals can survive the trip across the Atlantic. "Since Cats and Phantom of the Opera, everyone expects a successful...
...apartment, over bagels, cream cheese and whitefish salad, they continued to work. By the time the show was ready for a staged reading last April, Geffen had reluctantly dropped out owing to other commitments, so a new chorus line of potential backers was invited. By the intermission, Rocco Landesman, head of the Jujamcyn theater chain, said he was in. Others followed quickly. Broderick and Lane (who played Bialystock at the reading) were cast, though it took some convincing. Lane wavered because he felt his character had too little to do in the second act; he stayed only after Brooks promised...
...cutoff for Tony nominations, at least six new plays are planned, including yet another by McNally. Still, opening-night mortality rates being what they are, theater pros know better than to predict a resurgence of plays on Broadway. "Two or three," says Jujamcyn Theaters president Rocco Landesman, "would be an avalanche...
...producers profess only delight. Says Rocco Landesman, president of the Jujamcyn theater-ownership group that is co-financing and housing Millennium and Perestroika: "When we look back on this in five or 10 years, we are not going to remember our exasperation at the script coming in late or how much money it cost. We are going to remember that we are the producers of Angels in America, the most important play in a generation...