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'The Producers' keeps rolling |
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Written by Dan England
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Friday, 02 November 2007 |
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 It was more than Elizabeth Pawlowski’s first time. It was “The Producers.”
You know, the Mel Brooks musical based on a film that later became a film again. The Broadway sensation that now tours and plays in Vegas and all over the world, really. The one that won the Tony for Best Musical. One of the few musicals that practically everyone knows.
“I was a little nervous,” Pawlowski said. “I felt like I had a lot to live up to.”
The play will hit the Lincoln Center in Fort Collins from Nov. 6-9 and the Union Colony Civic Center in Greeley on Nov. 10 for two shows.
She was just two years out of college, and this was her first lead role in a national tour, so she was intimidated about that too, even if Pawlowski has done theater since age 14, when she played Cinderella in a community theater production.
But her youth is what gives the play a little kick, she said in a phone interview.
“I’m proud to say that people seem to prefer our production the best even if they’ve seen other productions,” Pawlowski said. “That makes me happy because it means we’re doing our job. But our cast is considerably younger. We’re all 22 to 30. So I think we have a bit more gusto.”
Pawlowski plays Ulla and had no problems making the role her own even if it was played by several famous actresses, including Uma Thurman in the most recent movie.
“I never saw the Broadway show and never saw the movie,” she said. “So I created her differently. She has become my own.”
This national tour will last until April 7 and then go for a long run into Asia, including a month-and-a-half run in Seoul, Japan.
The play is so overdone that an audience is rarely surprised, Pawlowski said.
“But we gave it some new life,” she said.
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TO GO
Union Colony Civic Center:
3 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 10
701 10th Ave., Greeley
Tickets are $27-$44.
Call 356.5000 or go to www.ucstars.com.
Lincoln Center in Fort Collins:
7:30 p.m. Nov. 6-9, with a 2 p.m. matinee Nov. 7
Tickets are $40 and $42
To order, visit fcgov.com/lctix or go to the box office, 417 W. Magnolia St. (open between 12:30-5:30 p.m. Monday through Saturday) or call 221.6730.
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