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Meet the Guy Who’s Protesting a Maryland Theater’s Production of Mel Brook's The Producers
The Washingtonian ^ | 07/25/2015 | By Benjamin Freed

Posted on 07/25/2015 4:59:45 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

Olney Theatre’s production of Mel Brooks’s 2001 musical The Producers only has three more performances, but it’s not going to close without a bit of manufactured controversy. Audience members at Montgomery County playhouse are going to have to walk past a small coterie protesting the show’s play-within-the-play, because, the demonstrators say, it makes light of Adolf Hitler and the atrocities committed by Nazi Germany.

I understand the intent is satire,” says Jeffrey Imm, who is organizing the demonstration through his anti-discrimination group, Responsible for Equality And Liberty. “This is the point of morality: some things we have to recognize as absolute evil. When 6 million people are murdered, we don’t view it with knee-slapping, we view it with reverence.”

In The Producers, which is adapted from Brooks’s Oscar-winning 1968 film of the same name, two crooked Broadway producers endeavor to profit off a critical and commercial flop, which they believe they find in Springtime for Hitler: A Gay Romp Adolf and Eva at Berchtesgaden, which portrays Hitler as a flamboyant dandy.

Even though the jokes in The Producers come at the expense of show-business types and Nazis, Imm is not impressed by its humor, or the original Broadway run’s record 12 Tony Awards. Contemporary audiences, he argues, are no longer frightened by genocide.

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TOPICS: History; Music/Entertainment; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: hitler; melbrooks; nazis; theproducers
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To: Sparky1776

I think there are three versions:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071230/alternateversions


21 posted on 07/25/2015 5:36:21 PM PDT by jjotto ("Ya could look it up!")
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To: Wyrd bið ful aræd
Springtime for Hitler and Germanyyyy,

An updated version thanks to Obama's inaction:

Springtime for ISIS and Sharia Law

Jihad's the new fad today

We're building an Islamic State

Look out, here comes the Caliphate!

22 posted on 07/25/2015 5:37:23 PM PDT by GreenHornet
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To: SeekAndFind
Favorite parts: Springtime for Hitler and Germanyyyy Winter for Poland and France

And Mel Brooks cameo as a dancer: "come on be a smartee, come and join the Nazi partee,"

23 posted on 07/25/2015 5:39:28 PM PDT by Michael.SF. (This tagline lists all of Hilary's accomplishments............................)
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To: GreenHornet

LOL


24 posted on 07/25/2015 5:41:05 PM PDT by Michael.SF. (This tagline lists all of Hilary's accomplishments............................)
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To: SeekAndFind

He sounds like he’s offended that folks are making fun of der Führer.


25 posted on 07/25/2015 5:42:35 PM PDT by PAR35
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To: SeekAndFind
This was a great, great movie. Zero Mostell and Gene Wilder are absolute geniuses in this film.

***Warning: You May Die Laughing!***

26 posted on 07/25/2015 5:43:38 PM PDT by WorkingClassFilth
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To: SeekAndFind

I’ve seen a number of comedies on film about WWII. That was the worst bloodletting in history. Should they take all the comedies about that war out of circulation?


27 posted on 07/25/2015 5:45:55 PM PDT by driftless2
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To: LukeL

Or Combat.


28 posted on 07/25/2015 6:46:51 PM PDT by Freestate316 (Know what you believe and why you believe it.)
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To: goodwithagun

It was by the “Capitol Steps.”


29 posted on 07/25/2015 6:51:27 PM PDT by Tax-chick ("All the time live the truth with love in your heart." ~Fr. Ho Lung)
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To: BenLurkin

Dick Shawn was a great talent. I always felt sorry for him at how he died. He died on stage and everyone thought it was part of the act. That’s no joke.


30 posted on 07/25/2015 7:01:49 PM PDT by vladimir998 (Apparently I'm still living in your head rent free. At least now it isn't empty.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Hitler, there was a painter. He could paint an entire apartment in one afternoon, TWO COATS!!!


31 posted on 07/25/2015 7:03:47 PM PDT by lowbridge
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To: SeekAndFind

What HUMORLESS people! The JOKE is that the PLAY they are PRODUCING is a JOKE!

It’s a JOKE! A JOKE! The whole play is based on the most ridiculous thing you could decide to PRODUCE in the FIRST place!

Gawd. I’m so tired of dealing with these self-righteous MORONS!


32 posted on 07/25/2015 8:10:02 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set...)
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To: LukeL

“Don’t ever let this guy know about Hogan’s Heroes.”

I laughed out loud in real life! Thank you! :)


33 posted on 07/25/2015 8:11:54 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set...)
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