Okay, so British actor Henry Goodman will be taking over for Nathan Lane in The Producers, opposite a Leo Bloom to be named later. The AP news story says this will be Goodman's Broadway debut but, in fact, he was there in the play Art a few years ago. Having never seen Mr. Goodman in anything, I have no idea how he'll be except, of course, you have to figure the producers of The Producers looked long and hard, and had their pick of darn near everyone. In the meantime, gossip columnist Liz Smith says that Jason Alexander and Martin Short are pretty much a lock for the West Coast production, whenever that occurs, though she presently seems to be the only one who thinks so. It sounds so obvious that I'm a bit skeptical…