FULL CREATIVE TEAM ANNOUNCED FOR
THE WEST END TRANSFER OF
THE MENIER CHOCOLATE FACTORY’S HIT PRODUCTION OF
MEL BROOKS’ THE PRODUCERS
The full creative team is today announced for the West End Transfer of The Menier Chocolate Factory’s critically acclaimed sell-out production of The Producerswith book by Mel Brooks and Thomas Meehan, and music & lyrics by Mel Brooks. Tony Award winning director for Leopoldstadt Patrick Marber returns to direct.
Patrick Marber leads a creative team with Choreography by Lorin Letarro, Set Design by Scott Pask, Costume Design by Paul Farnsworth,Lighting Design by Tim Lutkin, Sound Design by Paul Groothius, Wigs, Hair & Makeup Design by Betty Martini, Musical Supervision and Dance Arrangement by Gareth Valentine, Musical Direction by Matthew Samer, Orchestrations by Larry Blank and Mark Cumberland, Associate Director is Lily Dyble, Associate Choreographer (US) is Michaeljon Slinger, Associate Choreographer (UK) is Anna Woodside, Assistant Director is John Reddel and Resident Director is Mark Gillet.
Marber directs cast including Andy Nyman, Marc Antolin, Trevor Ashley, Raj Ghatak, Harry Morrison and Joanna Woodward all reprising their roles from the original Menier run. Full cast to be announced shortly.
The production opens at the Garrick Theatre on 15 September, with previews from 30 August, and is booking until 21 February 2026.
Patrick Marber said today “It has been a great joy to direct this new production of The Producers. Mel Brooks is one of my all-time heroes and in this musical the range of his genius is extraordinary; what mighty characters, what jokes, what songs and lyrics! What flair to find the place where the funny and the offensive meet in delight. It has been such a pleasure to do the show with Andy, Marc and our incredible cast and creative team. I’m thrilled we can now do it all again at the beautiful Garrick Theatre where I hope our production will be even bigger, louder and funnier.”
Producer Nica Burns added, “It is an absolute joy to welcome Patrick Marber’s hilarious, pitch perfect production to the Garrick Theatre. Patrick has assembled a top notch cast and creative team finding every single joke and comedy moment in Mel Brooks’ sublime, much-loved musical. You’ll enjoy the most gloriously entertaining night. Absolutely not to be missed.”
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David Babani and Nica Burns & Max Weitzenhoffer, Kevin Salter
Seaview, Creative Partners Productions and 2ontheaisleBDWY
present
The Menier Chocolate Factory production of
THE PRODUCERS
Book by Mel Brooks and Thomas Meehan
Music and Lyrics by Mel Brooks
Original Direction and Choreography Susan Stroman
By special arrangement with StudioCanal
At the Garrick Theatre
30 August 2025 – 21 February 2026
Director: Patrick Marber; Choreographer: Lorin Latarro;Set Designer: Scott Pask; Costume Designer: Paul Farnsworth; Lighting Designer: Tim Lutkin; Sound Designer: Paul Groothius; Wigs, Hair & Makeup Designer: Betty Martini; Musical Supervisor & Dance Arranger: Gareth Valentine; Musical Director – Matthew Samer; Orchestrators: Larry Blank and Mark Cumberland; Associate Director: Lily Dyble; Associate Choreographer (US): Michaeljon Slinger; Associate Choreographer (UK): Anna Woodside; Assistant Musical Director: John Reddel; Resident Director: Matt Gillett
Cast includes: Andy Nyman, Marc Antolin, Trevor Ashley, Raj Ghatak, Harry Morrison and Joanna Woodward
The first major London revival of Mel Brooks’ musical adaptation of The Producers transfers to the Garrick Theatre this Autumn following a sold-out run at the Menier Chocolate Factory.
Based on the classic cult film, the original Broadway production won a record twelve Tony Awards. Teeming with Mel Brooks’ signature humour, The Producers takes no prisoners as it proudly proclaims itself an “equal opportunity offender!”.
Down-on-his-luck Broadway producer Max Bialystock schemes with timid accountant Leo Bloom to create the biggest flop in theatre history – only to have it backfire spectacularly, and with thunderous applause.
Critically acclaimed principals Andy Nyman, Marc Antolin, Trevor Ashley, Raj Ghatak, Harry Morrison and Joanna Woodward all return triumphantly for the West End production, which opens on 15 September, with previews from 30 August.
As a director, Patrick Marber’s work includes Glengarry Glen Ross (Palace Theatre, New York), Habeas Corpus (Menier Chocolate Factory), Leopoldstadt (Wyndham’s Theatre and Broadway – Tony Award for Best Director of a Play and Outer Critics’ Circle Award for Outstanding Director of a Play), Travesties (Menier Chocolate Factory/Apollo Theatre/Roundabout Theatre Company’s American Airlines Theatre, NYC), Steve Coogan/John Thompson in Characters (Edinburgh/Purcell Room/Touring), and his own plays Dealer’s Choice (National Theatre/Vaudeville Theatre), Closer (National Theatre/Lyric Theatre/Broadway), Howard Katz and Three Days In the Country (both National Theatre). Other productions include 1953 (Almeida Theatre), Blue Remembered Hills (National Theatre), The Old Neighborhood (Royal Court at Duke of York’s Theatre), The Caretaker (Comedy Theatre) and I Remember (devised piece at Royal Court). For television, he directed After Miss Julie and The Curator (both for the BBC). As a writer, his other work includes The Musicians (NT Connections) After Miss Julie, Don Juan in Soho, Dealer’s Choice (Donmar Warehouse/Wyndham’s) and The Red Lion (National Theatre). For television, his work includes: co-writer of The Day Today, Knowing Me Knowing You with Alan Partridge, Paul Calf Video Diaries, The Curator, Natural Born Quizzers (all BBC); for film, The Critic (dir. Anand Tucker), Closer (dir. Mike Nichols), Notes on a Scandal (dir. Richard Eyre) and Love You More (dir. Sam Taylor-Wood); and for radio, Hoop Lane (BBC Radio 3) and Bunk Bed with Peter Curran (BBC Radio 4).
Lorin Latarro choreographed Broadway’s recent Once Upon a Mattress (currently at the Hudson Theatre), The Who’s Tommy, The Heart of Rock and Roll, Oliver!, Into The Woods, Waitress, Mrs. Doubtfire (also in the West End), Les Liaisons Dangereuse, Waiting For Godot. Her other theatre work includes Merrily We Roll Along (Roundabout); Assassins; Fanny and God Bless You, Mr Rosewater (New York City Center Encores); La Traviata and Rigoletto (The Metropolitan Opera); Chess (The Kennedy Center); Lin-Manuel Miranda’s 21 Chump Street for “This American Life” (Brooklyn Academy of Music); The Visitor (The Public Theater); Twelfth Night; The Odyssey (Public Works, Delacorte Theater) and A Christmas Carol (McCarter Theatre).
THE PRODUCERS
GARRICK THEATRE
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Tickets from £25
30 August 2025 – 21 February 2026