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I continue to be intrigued by local and regional productions of The Producers. Here's a promo reel for a version that was done in May of '08 at the North Shore Music Theatre, which is located in Beverly, Massachusetts. And what's interesting to me is that that's a theatre-in-the-round, where the audience sits on all sides of the performers. That means that the director had to reinvent all the staging and work with minimal sets which could be hustled on and off stage, usually up the aisles. Obviously not easy to do.

I think that's Jim Stanek playing Leo Bloom. He was Hero in the Nathan Lane revival of A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum a few years back. He was good in that and he was probably a very good Leo.