If the word “outrageous” didn’t exist, somebody would have to invent it to describe “The Producers.” What else would you call a musical with tap-dancing old ladies complete with walkers, dancing Nazis, over-the-top musical numbers with songs like “Keep it Gay” and “Der Guten Tag Hop-Clop” and sight gags that will leave you howling with laughter in your seat?

Local actors featured in Sondheim classic musical.

On the Table

Whatever you think of his on-screen presence, it's hard not to love Gordon Ramsay's food, especially when it is as gorgeously presented as in his new cookbook, "Gordon Ramsay's Fast Food."

Summer's the season for freshly squeezed lemonade.

A recipe for Old Fashioned Lemonade

TREASURES IN YOUR ATTIC

Q: I am enclosing pictures of a sewing machine once belonging to my mother. I remember hearing that she paid $30 for it when it was new. There is no date anywhere. What can you tell me about it, and what is its value?

Now the new growing season is well underway - May is the perfect time to add to your garden and landscape. And with recent and much-welcomed attention to doing the right thing for the environment, many homeowners are seeking guidance.

Although we think it's well worth the 50 cents a day, sometimes you can't get your hands on the day's Daily News Tribune. To check out the great photos, headlines, stories and design on today's front page, click on the link below.

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Daily News assistant production manager Bobby Skerry must be a glutton for punishment! Last year he turned 40 and decided to run the Boston Marathon. He finished in 3 hours, 31 minutes, 40 seconds (but who's counting?). This year, he's at it again. He's 41 years old and determined to run Boston to qualify for Boston. Every day leading up to the April 21 marathon, he'll blog about getting read for the run of his life.

Read "26 by 41" here

For more from Daily News cartoonist Dave Granlund, visit www.davegranlund.com

Consumer tastes and beverage marketing have changed since the bottle bill became law in 1982. It's time lawmakers updated it to address today's beverages - and today's litter.

"Every day teens are bombarded with messages about sex and sexuality, but oftentimes, these are not the messages we want them to hear," (Diane Luby, "Teens need facts, candor about sexual health," April 16, 2008). If you or I, as parents, wrote that statement, it would be true. Perhaps Ms. Luby was putting herself in our shoes, but in her shoes, as president and CEO of Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts, those words ring hollow.

Sense of community has been in decline over the last decade. Community members may know who they live near and make small talk in the summer at block parties, but they have no connection to their community at large. This problem is plaguing small towns as well as large metropolitan cities.

After a tumultuous and controversy-filled few days in which the TAB and other media reported that Mayor David Cohen inserted a $27,600 pay increase for himself into the FY09 budget, followed by public calls for him to announce that he will not seek reelection, Cohen said today that he will not run for a fourth term in 2009.

With Mother's Day just two days away, some working women who gathered at Brandeis University yesterday said archaic policies in the nation make the balancing act between motherhood and careers difficult.

Jury selection for the trial of a local man accused of hiring another man to murder his estranged wife's boyfriend will begin June 2 in Middlesex Superior Court.

Three teenage boys were arrested Tuesday evening after police say they stole a bike from a Alden Place home.

IMPROV JONES, At Newton Free Library
Improv Jones Boston, an eight-member comedic troupe, will perform short improv games similar to the style of the TV show, ``Whose Line Is It Anyway?'', at Newton Free Library, 330 Homer St., on Wednesday, May 7, 7 p.m. Audience members will offer suggestions about locations, emotions and relationships and some will even get in on the act performing in a game or two with the troupe. The troupe performs Fridays, 8 p.m., at the Arsenal Center for the Arts in Watertown. Visit improvjonesboston.com.
For information, call the library at 617-796-1360. All programs are free and open to the public.

Waltham Council on Aging events for May