Springtime for Hitler… at Leipzig Opera
NewsThe Juedische Allgemeine reviews a new operatic production of Mel Brooks’ The Producers:
… the director adds a few subtle contemporary punchlines to the original year of events, 1959. If a bird’s shit is covered up with a swastika armband or an applicant appears in a pair of crutches during the casting for the lead role, the audience has no trouble recognizing who is being referred to and – with all due respect – being taken for a ride.
It’s a firework of slapstick and perfect dance numbers, but above all of punchlines and innuendos. The Great Dictator’s globe flies through the room, or a Hitler actor makes fun of the Hitler salute with “Heil mir ihr”…
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