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Mel Brooks' The Producers will be presented from April 14-17... it is great fun... tickets are going fast... click here to get them...

Sandy Hinden

The Dix Hills Performing Arts Center presents
The Producers

April 14-16 at 7:30 pm and April 17 at 2:00 pm

Classic Film, Broadway Musical Comedy Chronicles the Shenanigans of Producer Max Bialystock, as he and his Neurotic Partner

Leo Bloom Audaciously Fleece Play Investors

March 25, 2011, Dix Hills, New York – The Dix Hills Performing Arts Center and Five Towns College’s award-winning theater division will present the Broadway comedy classic The Producers April 14 through 16 at 7:30 pm and April 17 at 2 pm Tickets are $18, $15 for seniors and students.

Originally a film written and directed by Mel Brooks, which opened in 1968 to horrible New York reviews, it grew to cult status, eventually earning a 93 percent rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Roger Ebert later called it, “one of the funniest movies ever made.”

Ebert’s review reminisced about how he found himself in an elevator with Brooks and his wife, actress Anne Bancroft, in New York City a few months after The Producers was released, when a woman got in and recognized Brooks. 'I have to tell you, Mr. Brooks, that your movie is vulgar.' At this Brooks smiled benevolently. 'Lady,' he said, 'it rose below vulgarity.”

The 2001 play, based on the film which starred Zero Mostel and Gene Wilder, starred Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick, who later recreated that role on screen in 2005. The play depicts the zany world of Broadway investments, as producer Max Bialystock oversells shares in his production, and then plans to close after opening night to avoid having to pay his creditors.

To ensure the play fails, he scours the country to produce the very worst play he can find – a nostalgic romp about the Third Reich entitled “Springtime for Hitler.” Mayhem ensues as diverse theatrical personalities collide amid scandal and treachery. Unlike the play within the play, The Producers ran for more than 2,500 performances, and won a dozen Tony awards.

The Five Towns College production will be directed by Bob Stern, professor of theater, and will feature a talented cast of up-and-coming actors from the Five Towns College Theatre Division.

“The Five Towns College production of The Producers is truly Broadway-caliber entertainment right here on Long Island,” said Sandy Hinden, Executive Director of the Center. “Audiences are in for a real treat with this production. It offers show-stopping music and dancing, and it’s hilarious.”

The Dix Hills Performing Arts Center

The Dix Hills Performing Arts Center is located at Five Towns College, 305 North Service Road, Dix Hills, New York, 11746-5857. For more information and ticket sales, please contact the Dix Hills Performing Arts Center box office at (631) 656-2148 or visit online at www.DHPAC.org *Become a fan on Facebook! (Dix Hills Performing Arts Center).

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Dix Hills Performing Arts Center
SUMMER - FALL 2011

MAY

MUSIC  Sun, 5/1, 2:00 pm, Great American Songbook, $10

VOCALS  Tue, 5/3, 7:30 pm, Mostly Barbershop, $10  

MUSIC  Wed, 5/4, 7:30 pm, FTC Chamber Orchestra and Chorus, $10

JAZZ  Thurs, 5/5, 7:30 pm, Evening of Jazz with the FTC Jazz Orchestra & Vocal Jazz Ensemble, $10

JAZZ  Fri, 5/6, 7:30 pm, Guitar Extravaganza, $10

MUSIC  Sat, 5/7, 7:30 pm, Broadway Bound, $10

JAZZ  Mon, 5/9, 4:00 pm, FTC Jazz Ensembles, FREE

MUSIC  Wed, 5/11, 7:30 pm, Spring Concert, FTC Choir and FTC Concert Pops, $10

CLINIC  Sun, 5/22, 1:00 pm, Guitar Clinic with Steve Briody, FREE

JUNE

MUSIC  Thurs, 6/9, 7:30 pm, “Tops of the Pops” with Dean Karahalis and the FTC Concert Pops, FREE

ROCK  Fri, 6/17, 7:30 pm, Music of The Cars with talk of the Town & The Police with Invisible Sun, $30, $25, $20

ROCK  Sat, 6/25, Pink Floyd's The Wall Performed by Project Floyd, $30, $25, $20

VOCALS  Sun, 6/26, An Afternoon with South Shore Syncopators ten-piece Dance Band featuring music of the 20s & 30s with Vocalist Holly Sickinger, $20

JULY

3 VARIETY SHOW PACKAGE  Saturdays 7/9 & 23, August 6, The Catskills in Dix Hills, Entertainment the Way It Used To Be,  Dinner 5:00 pm, Dancing 6:30 pm, Show 7:30 pm, Special Tickets Series Packages including Dinner

VARIETY  Saturday, 7/9, 7:30 pm, The Catskills in Dix Hills, Cabaret Star Karen Oberlin,  Comedian & Impersonator Tom LaGravinese and Ballroom Dancing to the Music of Arnie Gruber and His Band, $30, $25, $20 and Special Tickets Series Packages including Dinner 

ROCK  Sat, 7/16, 7:30 pm, The Music of Johnny Cash with Tom Cavanagh, $30, $25, $20

MUSIC  Sun, 7/17, From Bach to Bernstein with Judith Alstadter, $15, $10 Senior and Students

MUSIC  Thurs, 7/21, 7:30 pm, “Tops of the Pops” with Dean Karahalis and the FTC Concert Pops,  FREE

VARIETY  Saturday, 7/23, 7:30 pm, The Catskills in Dix Hills, Comedian Eddie Brill or The Late Show with  David Letterman, Vocalist Jamie Lynn and Ballroom Dancing to the Music of Arnie Gruber and His Band, $30, $25, $20 and Special Tickets Series Packages including Dinner                                          

COMEDY  Sat, 7/30, A Hilarious Evening with Uncle Floyd, $20

AUGUST

VARIETY  Sat, 8/6, The Catskills in Dix Hills, with Nationally Loved Vocalist Lou Villano, Comedian Maureen Langan, and The Arne Gruber Band and, $30, $25, $20 and Special Tickets Series Packages including Dinner 

MUSIC   Thurs, 8/11, 7:30 pm, “Tops of the Pops” with Dean Karahalis and the FTC Concert Pops, FREE

VOCALS  Saturday, 8/13, 7:30 pm, Evening with Italian Singer Giada Valenti and Her Orchestra, $30, $25, $20

SEPTEMBER

ROCK   Fri, 9/9, 35th Anniversary of Steely Dan’s Aja Show and More by Stealin' Dan, $30, $25, $20

JAZZ   Sun, 9/11, Lady Sings the Blues, Celebrating Billie Holiday with Tierney Ryan and her Band, $20

ROCK  Fri, 9/16, The Eagles Greatest Hits with Desert Highway, $30, $25, $20  

VOCALS  Sat, 9/17, The Romance of Bossa Nova & Latin Jazz, with Vocalist Sofia Rei Koutsoviti, Pianist Chuck Mymit and Saxophonist Demetrius Spaneas, $30, $25, $20

VOCALS  Fri, 9/23, 7:30 pm, Tribute To The Music of Bobby Darin, Neil Diamond and Paul Anka with Arnie Gruber, his Band and Special Guest, vocalist Halley Hiatt, $30, $25, $20

ROCK  Sat, 9/24, The Very Best of Chicago TA with Beginnings, $30, $25, $20

MUSIC  Sun, 9/25, An Evening of Movies & Music!  $15

OCTOBER

ROCK  Sat, 10/1, 7:30, The John Lennon Birthday Celebration, “Four John: A Rock ’n Roll Concerto” with MOSTLY MOPTOP, $30, $25, $20

JAZZ   Sun, 10/2, 2 pm, "A Musical Tribute to Maynard Ferguson featuring Ryan Resky" An  Afternoon with the Extraordinary “Give It One" Big Band, $25, $20 Seniors, $10 for Students with ID.   

ROCK   Sat, 10/21, The Music of George Harrison with Tom Cavanagh, $30, $25, $20

2011 FALL FESTIVAL OF GUITAR
 
Thurs, 10/20, 3:00-500 pm, Faculty Workshops, Gerry Saulter, Peter Rogine and John Romano, FREE
  
Thurs, 10/20, 7:30 pm, Guitar Workshop, Pat Martino, Jazz Guitar Legend, FREE

Fri, 10/21, 12 Noon, Workshop, Olsen / Di Cari Duo, Voice and Guitar Duet, FREE

Sat, 10/22, 7:30 pm, Frank Vignola Quartet, Celebrating Django Reinhardt’s 100^th Birthday, $10, FREE for Students

Sun, 10/23, 2:00 pm, David Burgess, American Classical Guitar Master, $10, FREE for Students 

JAZZ  Fri, 10/28, 7:30 pm, Tribute to The Jazz Piano Greats, $10   

THEATER  Thurs-Sun, Oct 13-16, DRAMATIC THEATER, $15 Adults, $12 Seniors and Students

NOVEMBER

ROCK  Fri, 11/4, A Tribute to Journey with Evolution, $30, $25, $20

ROCK  Sat, Nov 5, Horn Power Tribute to Tower of Power, Earth, Wind & Fire, Blood Sweat & Tears, Stevie Wonder and More by Uppercut, $30, $25, $20

THEATER   Thurs-Sun, Nov 17-20, MUSICAL, $18 Adults, $15 Seniors and Students

DECEMBER

THEATER   Sat, Dec 3, 11 am and 2 pm, Sun, Dec 4, 12 Noon and 3: 00 pm, Children’s Theater, $10

MUSIC   Tues, Dec 6, Mostly Barbershop, $10

MUSIC  Wed, Dec 7, Holiday Concert with FTC Concert Pops & FTC Chorus, $10

MUSIC  Thurs, Dec 8, Guitar Extravaganza, $10

MUSIC  Sat, Dec 10, Great American Songbook, $10

MUSIC  Sun, Dec 11, Broadway Bound, $10

JAZZ   Mon, Dec 12, Jazz Ensemble 4:30 pm, FREE

JAZZ   Tues, Dec 13, Evening of Jazz with the FTC Jazz Orchestra, $10

MUSIC   Wed, Dec 14, Chamber Orchestra, Choir and Vocal Jazz Ensemble, $10