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Springtime for Hitler: A Gay Romp With Adolf and Eva at Berchtesgaden is a fictional musical play within a play in Mel Brooks' 1967 film The Producers, [1] as well as the stage musical adaptation of the movie [2] and the 2005 movie adaptation of the musical.
The Producers is a 1967 American satirical black comedy film. It was directed and written by Mel Brooks, and stars Zero Mostel, Gene Wilder, Dick Shawn, and Kenneth Mars.The film is about a mild-mannered accountant and a con artist theater producer who scheme to get rich by fraudulently overselling interests in a stage musical designed to fail.
"To Be or Not to Be (The Hitler Rap)" is a comedy hip hop song recorded by Mel Brooks in 1983 for Island Records. The song appeared on the soundtrack album for the movie of the same name. It was derived from the burlesque show within the film but did not appear within it. [1]
"Springtime for Hitler" is a song written and composed by Mel Brooks for his 1968 film The Producers. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] In the original film, the 2001 musical , and 2005 film adaptation , the song is part of the stage musical titled Springtime for Hitler , which the two protagonists produce on Broadway .
Acting as the head of Hitler's guard, Joseph demands to know what Greenberg wants, giving the actor his chance to deliver Shylock's speech, ending with "if you wrong us, shall we not revenge?!" Joseph orders Greenberg to be "taken away". All the actors march out, including Bronski disguised as Hitler, get in Hitler's cars and drive away.
As a result, Springtime for Hitler is declared a smash hit. L.S.D. appears only in the 1967 film. In the musical and the 2005 film, Franz Liebkind is cast as Hitler, but breaks his leg moments before curtain and is replaced by Roger De Bris, whose campy take on Hitler is mistaken for satire, causing the same effect of the play being a hit.
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It generated international publicity by featuring a controversial song on its soundtrack—"To Be or Not to Be (The Hitler Rap)"—satirizing German society in the 1940s, with Brooks playing Hitler. The second movie Brooks directed in the 1980s was Spaceballs (1987), a parody of science fiction, mainly Star Wars .