Springtime For Hitler Scene

[Isabella2]

Posted: 7/29/06 at 6:55pm

I was just wondering since i've never seen the actual show and just the movie, how do they execute the spring time for hitler scene? How do they show the audience hating it then loving it?

[Andrew_VB]

Posted: 7/29/06 at 6:57pm

they dont show the audience hating or loving, they show the performance, then the next scene is of max and leo in the office with great reviews.

[Isabella2]

Posted: 7/29/06 at 6:59pm

oh. interesting. I thought they would have done something like soundquues of gasps then of laughter when hitler came out. but i guess that works too, thanks.

[bwaylvsong]

Posted: 7/29/06 at 7:56pm

I saw the show last night, and my dad was wondering how they would execute it. He was disappointed that they didn't. According to him, in the original movie, Hitler also said something like "1 2 3 4 Let's go out and win the war", which he was also disappointed was missing.

[Yankeefan007]

Posted: 7/29/06 at 8:43pm

I don't recall that from the Original. However, there is an extended Hitler sequence with the cut character, LSD. It is one of my favorite movies and everyone should see it before the show. LSD was cut from the show because he didn't fit in with the time period. The show takes place in 1959, the movie in the middle of the '60s.

[Isabella2]

Posted: 7/29/06 at 9:04pm

wow, show how off i am. I thought the the show was set in the 40's...

[ShbrtAlley44]

Posted: 7/30/06 at 3:45am

It was actually "One and one is two / Two and two is four / I'm so sad 'cause I'm losin' the war..."

[Andrew_VB]

Posted: 7/30/06 at 12:21pm

i was so glad LSD was gone. he was one of the worst characters ive ever seen. so annoying, he solely brought that movie down for me.

[EponineAmneris]

Posted: 7/30/06 at 12:31pm

Well, as many movie versions of musicals go, you can show more than you can on stage... so they were able to pan the 'audience' and show their response for the film in a way they can not on stage.

[Jon]

Posted: 7/30/06 at 1:12pm

The original movie had two very funny short scenes following the Springtime for Hitler number - one with Hitler and his underlings discussing the war, and a love scene with Eva Braun (played by Renee Taylor, Fran's mom on "The Nanny"). During these scenes, you see the audience laughing hysterically.

[MusicAndPassion]

Posted: 7/30/06 at 3:14pm

Basically, the whole audience laughs & loves the Hilter scene. It's like the audience becomes the audience for Springtime for Hitler. There probably isn't a lot of nights when the audience isn't loving or laughing or clapping for the scene.

[Yankeefan007]

Posted: 7/30/06 at 3:17pm

I lieb ya baby, I lieb ya. Now lieb me alone!

The following scene, in the Astor Bar, was cut from the show but recreated for the movie. And it was cut from that, too, but can be seen on the DVD.

Posted: 7/30/06 at 3:21pm

Also, the whole "Springtime for Hitler" performance is pretty much the same thing as in the musical. Not as much Ulla, in the stage version if I remember right.

[worrell4077]

Posted: 7/30/06 at 5:20pm

"One and one is two / Two and two is four / I'm so sad 'cause I'm losin' the war..."

The line is actually, "One and one is two, two and two is four. I feel so bad cause I'm losin the war."
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