Springtime for Hitler (song) Springtime for Hitler (song) "Springtime for Hitler" is a song written and composed by Mel Brooks for his 1968 film "The Producers". In the film, the song is part of the stage musical titled "Springtime for Hitler", which the two protagonists produce on Broadway. The musical number was orchestrated by Philip J. Lang and staged by Alan Johnson.. The song goes : Moreover, the verses are accompanied by a "happy chorus line". 7" single "High Anxiety" by Mel Brooks — 1978, Asylum Records E-45458, United States and Canada The song (in the original version from the 1967 film "The Producers")
A Broadway Musical Gussow, in his review for "The New York Times", wrote that the idea was to write a spoof of Broadway intrigue and duplicity; "cynicism is rampant." There are jokes about blacks on Broadway, Jewish theater party women and lawyers with "steel clauses." The lyrics are not funny. Finally, Gussow wrote: "The cast performs with eagerness, even as the show sinks." Julius Novick of "The Village Voice" called it "the best Broadway musical since "Platinum"," a disaster that had opened the month before. Critic and theatre historian Ken Mandelbaum has described the show as "a genuine turkey... hopeless... [a] well-meaning but