Mel Brooks
Melvin James Brooks (né Kaminsky, born June 28, 1926) is an American actor, comedian, filmmaker, composer, and songwriter. He was married to Anne Bancroft from 1964 until her death in 2005.
Brooks is best known as a creator of broad film farces and comic parodies. He began his career as a comic and a writer for the early TV variety show Your Show of Shows. He became well known as part of the comedy duo with Carl Reiner in the comedy skit, The 2000 Year Old Man. He also created, with Buck Henry, the hit television comedy series, Get Smart, which ran from 1965 to 1970.
In middle age, he became one of the most successful film directors of the 1970s, with many of his films being among the top 10 money makers of the year they were released. His best-known films include The Producers, The Twelve Chairs, Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein, Silent Movie, High Anxiety, History of the World, Part I, Spaceballs, and Robin Hood: Men in Tights. A musical adaptation of his first film, The Producers, ran on Broadway from 2001 to 2007.
The Producers (1968 film)
The Producers is a 1968 American satirical comedy film written and directed by Mel Brooks. The film is set in the late 1960s and tells the story of a theatrical producer and an accountant who want to produce a sure-fire Broadway flop. They take more money from investors than they can repay (the shares they sell total more than 100% of any profits) and plan to abscond to Brazil as soon as the play closes, only to see the plan go awry when the show turns out to be a hit.
The film stars Zero Mostel as Max Bialystock, the producer, and Gene Wilder as Leo Bloom, the accountant. It features Dick Shawn as L.S.D., the actor who ends up playing the lead in the musical within the movie, and Kenneth Mars as a playwright and former Nazi soldier, Franz Liebkind.
The Producers was the first film directed by Brooks. He won an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. Decades later, the film was selected for preservation in the National Film Registry and placed 11th on the AFI's 100 Years...100 Laughs list. It was later remade successfully by Brooks as an acclaimed Broadway stage musical, which itself was adapted as a film.
Springtime for Hitler
Springtime for Hitler: A Gay Romp With Eva and Adolf at Berchtesgaden is a fictional musical in Mel Brooks' 1968 film The Producers, which has been remade as a stage musical and a film of the musical. It is a musical about Adolf Hitler, written by Franz Liebkind, an unbalanced ex-Nazi played by Kenneth Mars.
In the film, the play is chosen by the producer David Hodgson and his accountant Leo Bloom in their fraudulent scheme to raise substantial funding by selling 25,000% of a play, then causing it to fail, and finally keeping all of the remaining money for themselves. To ensure that the play is a total failure, Max selects an incredibly tasteless script (which he describes as "practically a love letter to Adolf Hitler"), hires the worst director he can find (Roger DeBris, a stereotypical homosexual and transvestite caricature), and casts an out-of-control hippie named Lorenzo St. DuBois, also known by his initials "L.S.D.", in the role of Hitler (after he had wandered into the wrong theatre by mistake during the casting call -- "That's our Hitler!").
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- The Producers released: 2008
- Young Frankenstein (Original Broadway Soundtrack) released: 2007
- The Producers (2005 film cast) released: 2005
- The Producers (2001 original Broadway cast) released: 2001
- The Producers: The Original Soundtrack Recording released: 1968
- The Producers (2007-03-30 Non-Equity Tour, Arlington Theatre, Santa Barbara, CA, USA cast) released:
- Young Frankenstein (2007-08-07 Seattle cast) released:
The Producers
Released 2008- Ouverture
- Es ist soweit
- Der König vom Broadway
- Wir zusammen
- Ich wär so gern ein Producer
- Der Rechts Herum Hupfauf
- Mach es warm
- Wenn Du´s drauf hast, zeig es!
- Und dann kam Bialy & Finale
- Der Blick
- Haben Sie gehört die Deutsche Band
- Es bringt Pech
- Frühling für Hitler
- Verrat
- Ein Freund
- Liebe im Knast
- Goodbye!
Young Frankenstein (Original Broadway Soundtrack)
Released 2007- Overture
- The Happiest Town in Town
- The Brain
- Please Don't Touch Me
- Together Again
- Roll in the Hay
- Join the Family Business
- He Vas My Boyfriend
- Life, Life
- Welcome to Transylvania
- Transylvania Mania
- He's Loose
- Listen to Your Heart
- Surprise
- Please Send Me Someone
- Man About Town
- Puttin' on the Ritz
- Deep Love
- Frederick's Soliloquy
- Finale Ultimo
- Alone (Bonus Track)
The Producers (2005 film cast)
Released 2005- Overture
- Opening Night
- We Can Do It
- I Wanna Be a Producer
- Der Guten Tag Hop-Clop
- Keep It Gay
- When You Got It, Flaunt It
- Along Came Bialy
- That Face
- Haben Sie Gehört Das Deutsche Band?
- You Never Say Good Luck on Opening Night
- Springtime for Hitler, Part I
- Heil Myself
- Springtime for Hitler, Part II
- You'll Find Your Happiness in Rio (Full version)
- Betrayed
- 'til Him
- Prisoners of Love (Broadway)
- Prisoners of Love (Leo and Max)
- There's Nothing Like a Show on Broadway
- The Hop-Clop Goes On
- Goodbye!
- The King of Broadway
The Producers (2001 original Broadway cast)
Released 2001- Overture
- Opening Night
- The King of Broadway
- We Can Do It
- I Wanna Be a Producer
- In Old Bavaria
- Der Guten Tag Hop-Clop
- Keep It Gay
- When You Got It, Flaunt It
- Along Came Bialy
- That Face
- Haben Sie Gehört das Deutsche Band?
- Opening Night (reprise)
- You Never Say Good Luck on Opening Night
- Springtime for Hitler
- Where Did We Go Right?
- Betrayed
- 'Til Him
- Prisoners of Love (Leo & Max)
- Goodbye!
The Producers: The Original Soundtrack Recording
Released 1968- Titles
- The Plot
- Bialystock Seduces Bloom
- The World's Worst Play
- Franz Liebkind
- Little Old Ladyland
- Ulla - "That's a Toy?"
- The Producers
- The World's Worst Director
- Auditioning 100 Hitlers
- Love Power
- Opening Night: Lobby, Overture
- Springtime for Hitler
- Adolph and Eva (Medley)
- Bialystock and Bloom at Bar (A Toast to Failure)
- Background Music - Bar Scene
- Disaster
- Where Did I Go Right?
- Courtroom
- Prisoners of Love
Young Frankenstein (2007-08-07 Seattle cast)
- Overture
- Frankenstein Is Dead
- The Happiest Town in Town
- Scene: Another Frankenstein, It's Fronkensteen
- There Is Nothing Like the Brain
- Scene: Oh No Oh Yes, at Pier 57
- Please Don't Touch Me
- Scene: A Railroad Station in Transylvania
- Together Again for the First Time
- Scene: I'd Like to Sleep on It
- Roll in the Hay
- Scene: Castle Frankenstein, Ovaltine
- Join the Family Business
- Scene: Put the Candle Back
- He Vas My Boyfriend
- Scene: How I Did It / Let's Rush to Judgment
- The Law
- Scene: Has Anyone Got a Hatpin
- Alone
- Life, Life
- Scene: Quiet Dignity and Grace
- Welcome to Transylvania
- Scene: That's the Soap and That's the...
- Transylvania Mania
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Please Don't Touch Me
by: Mel BrooksElizabeth]
Dream all you want my darling
Of every lustful situation
Those naughty thoughts
Are fine with me
As long as they
Stay locked away
In your imagination
You can hug me til I scream
If it's only in a dream
But please don't touch me
You can feel me til I squeal
Just as long as it's not real
But please don't touch me
You can stick me
You can lick me
You can pinch me til I'm blue
You can bite me
And delight me til I'm blind
You can savage me
And ravage me
I care not what you do
If the lovely filthy things you do
Are only in your mind
You can spank me til I'm red
If it's only in your head
But please don't touch me
You can have me don't you see
If it's just a fantasy
But please don't touch me
[spoken]
Oh Freddie, darling, I know that you're a virgin.
[Frederick Frankenstein]
Yes, for me, science has always come first.
[Elizabeth]
And as every guy in New York knows - I come first too.
After our wedding
You'll be oh so glad we waited
Until then
Take cold showers when you're overstimulated
Anticipation is sublime
And although you might think I'm
A tease
Please don't touch me
[Female pedestrian]
Oh everybody look! How unique. They're not touching.
[Male pedestrian]
It must be "Please Don't Touch Me,"
the new dance craze that's sweeping catholic girl
schools all over the midwest.
[Female pedestrian]
Oh what fun! Let's try it.
[Chorus]
Please don't
Please don't
Please don't touch me
[Elizabeth]
Do not hug us
Do not drug us
Do not slug us til we cry
Do not throb us
Do not rob us of our wits
[Male chorus]
We won't poke you
We won't stroke you
Til we're just about to die
[Elizabeth]
But even in your wildest dreams
Don't dare to touch our tits
Don't dare to touch our tits
[Female chorus]
Don't dare to touch our tits
Don't touch our tits
Don't touch our tits
Don't touch our
[Elizabeth]
Tits, tits, tits, tits
Tits, tits, tits, tits
Tits!
Our tits!
When we're absolutely wed
You can do it til we're dead
[Frederick Frankenstein]
Elizabeth!
[Chorus]
Til then please, please, please
We're down on our knees
[Elizabeth]
Please keep your hands off these
[Chorus & Elizabeth]
Please don't touch me
[Chorus]
We won't touch you
[Elizabeth]
Please don't touch me
[Chorus]
We won't touch you
[Chorus & Elizabeth]
She's so touchy
[Elizabeth]