[Dixielandjazz] musicals

[pat ladd]

 a week long special of musicals on tv this week.  (I know they're corny, 
but I still enjoy them!) .

Me too Jim,

Like you I have not heard of the Bobby Darin one. I must look out for it.

I was weaned onto musicals when Paint Your Wagon, Annie get your Gun, etc. 
hit London. I saw Pyjama Game on stage there. Loved the films of Seven 
Brides and Kiss me Kate.

The new  version of Mel Brooks The Producers is the latest. I saw the 
original film with Zero Mostel and loved it and when Brooks put the show on 
stage in London a short while ago I went up to Town specially to see it 
(London is not my favourite place these days).

The film which has been made of the stage version is self indulgent to a 
degree and would benefit from some severe editing. But if you like big 
production numbers,  you will enjoy this.
The `Springtime for Hitler` sequence has got better and bigger from the 
original film to the stage and now to film again.

I think one of the funniest  exchanges is when the producers go looking for 
the author of the play `Springtime for Hitler`which they want to put on 
Broadway. They meet him on the tenement roof where he is looking after his 
pigeons. He is dressed in the renmnants of a uniform and a German tin 
helmet. When the vistors call his name he springs back in terror and says 
(roughly)
It wasn`t me, I was only carrying out orders, I wasn`t in the war. What war? 
I was out the back. Across the road from Switzerland`

Go see.

Pat 



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