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The Producers Comin.q to the Hult Center Experience Broadway without getting on a plane, and see the biggest Tony Award winner in Broadway history when The Producers opens at the Hult on November 9 for eight stellar performances. The show is based on Mol Brooks' Academy Award-winning 1968 film starring Zero Mostel and Gene Wilder, and is directed and choreographed by five-time Tony Award winner Susan Stroman (Crazy for You, Contact, The Music Man). This grand production cost $8 million to mount and has a crew and cast of 50 with eight semi-trucks of sets and lights, 400 costumes, 130 wigs, a 24 piece orchestra, 40 tap shoes, 22 Hitler moustaches, and one trick sausage. The musical comedy is the story of two men's scare to create a sure- fire Broadway flop and pocket investors' money, but the would-be flop "Spring-time for Hitler" becomes a hit. Mayhem ensues, and everything you heard is true! "The Producers is the funniest, most fearlessly irreverent thing ever seen on stage and Mol Brooks has put the comedy back into musical comedy" (USA Today). The New York Times raves "The Producers is a blissful spectacle that will leave you delirious." This is a rare opportunity to see one of the greatest Broadway hits ever in our own back yard. Show times are as follows: · 8 p.m. Tuesday, November 9 through Saturday, November 13 · 2 p.m. Thursday, November 11; Saturday, November 13; Sunday, November 14 The production contains mature themes and language. For more information, contact the Hult Center Ticket Office at (541) 682-5000. Eu.qene's Fall Leaf Pro.qram Be.qins November 1 Eugene's annual leaf program begins November 1 offering residents a variety of options for dealing with fall leaf accumulations. The program, which has been available to Eugene residents since the late 1960s, was originally implemented to prevent street flooding caused by clogged gutters and catch basins. Keeping leaves out of the RAKE stormwater drainage system also improves water quality because decomposing leaves use up oxygen that is needed by aquatic life in local streams and rivers. While the program continues to offer traditional leaf pickup service, it also encourages residents to consider reusing and recycling their leaves. The leaves collected by the City are reused by delivering them upon request to residents and to the City's community gardens and community groups such as Food for Lane County. Leaves that aren't delivered are recycled as compost material. None of the leaves collected by the City are taken to public landfills. A flyer offering detailed schedule information has been included in today's council packet. For more information about the leaf program, contact Tony Jobanek at Public Works Maintenance, 682- 4800, or call the program's hotline at 682-5383. Amazon Appreciation Day On Saturday, October 23, nearly 100 community members, including many elementary and high school students, gathered to contribute their collective energy to enhancing Eugene's own Amazon Creek at the 13th annual Amazon Appreciation Day. Co-sponsored by Eugene Stream Team and Eugene Weekly, the event mobilized volunteers from age 3 to 73 to plant native plants, remove invasive species, pick up trash, build trails, and learn more about Eugene's amazing Amazon Creek, from its headwaters at the base of Spencer Butte all the way out to the West Eugene Wetlands. Sites such as the butterfly meadow at 39th and East Amazon, the wetland mitigation site behind Amazon Pool, the Camas Trail next to the Amazon Park skatepark, the creek banks behind Chavez School and the Fairgrounds, the Gudu-Kut EUGENE CITY COUNCIL NEWSLETTER PAGE 3 October 28, 2004