Reviews

Review excerpts from Bob’s 2005-2006 tour of The Producers:

“If Gleason was The Greatest, so is Bob Amaral. Amaral’s take on Max is sensational.”
– Reno Gazette Journal

“As Max, Amaral even seems to swell physically. When he swaggers through “The King of Broadway” … he establishes Max’s character and his world in a stroke. His big number after the scheme falls apart, “Betrayed,” is a tour de force for Amaral…”
– St. Louis Post-Dispatch

“Amaral has a deft élan, slyly underlining jokes with his polished timing and pointed asides. His enduring Bialystock always has hope.”
– Sacramento Bee

“Amaral is particularly delightful, delivering a version of Max that is amoral yet somehow lovable.”
– Reno Gazette-Journal

“Although Zero and Gene aren’t around, Amaral and Taylor and the rest of the crew do Mel Brooks proud with one raunchy, anarchic tour-de-friggin-force.”
– Metro Times

“Amaral is on full tilt throughout the show, running madly, falling over furniture and nearly getting into fistfights. All the while he is belting out tunes. It’s a wonder the talented actor does not pass out.”
– The Star Newspapers

“Amaral’s is very much a comedian’s take on Bialystock, and he lends the lovable sleaze who can’t buy a hit an air of desperate energy. His timing is also first-rate in both the single entendres and doubletakes crammed into the script.”
– Philadelphia Inquirer

“Bob Amaral takes on the role of Max Bialystock. He moves with grace, sings with aplomb, and delivers a joke with a flourish…. Amaral embraced the role, and the audience shook with laughter at his double takes, line deliveries and malleable face.”
– Arizona Daily Star

“Bob Amaral is terrific as the sleazy, sneaky producer Max Bialystock who will do anything to make his show a flop.”
– Broadway-San Diego

“Bob Amaral plays Bialystock with vaudevillian gusto as he carries out his delightfully devious scheme with his partner, the meek accountant Leo Bloom. Amaral is a gifted physical comedian who must have borscht in his veins. Forty years ago, he might well have been a featured player on “Your Show of Shows,” the Sid Caesar TV comedy show on which Brooks was a writer in the 1950s.”
– Mercury News

“Amaral is a wonderful choice, filling quite adeptly the massive shoes left for him by Nathan Lane.”
– San Francisco Independent

“Amaral’s Max – dark and sly, gregarious, with the throaty chuckle of a Borscht Belt comedian after a couple of cocktails – had the audience in his dressing-gown pocket by the second scene, when he sings the snappy “We Can Do It.”… Amaral’s boisterous good-naturedness is so engaging – and his comic timing so precise – that by the end, he claims Max as his own.”
– Fresno Bee