Lane and Broderick to resume Producers leads

Matthew Broderick and Nathan Lane are expected to return to their award-winning roles in The Producers as the highest paid actors in Broadway history.

They will each receive $100,000 (€92,000) a week plus a percentage of the weekly profits when they resume their roles as crooked theatre impresarios Leo Bloom and Max Bialystock on New Year’s Eve, reports the New York Daily News.

They left the hit musical in March 2002.

By comparison, Hugh Jackman is expected to command $45,000 (€39,800) a week when he opens in The Boy From Oz in October.

Lane and Broderick will be with The Producers from January until March - traditionally the slowest period of the year for Broadway.