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Location: NJ | It was just announced that MelBrooks' Broadway production of "TheProducers" will be closing in April. I sat 3rd row for the original NathanLane/Matthew Broderick cast, and I never laughed so hard until . . . well, until "Spamalot" opened.
I've never seen the re-make movie version, but I can't see how it could be as good as the stage production. Of course, the Mostel/Wilder original is impeccable.
The Good News:
"The Producers" will be replaced with a stage production of "YoungFrankenstein" . . .
THIS . . oughta' be GOOD!!! |
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Location: NJ | IMHO the movie was unwatchable. I LOVE the original producers movie. I tried several times to watch the remake and just could not |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | The original was classic. Maybe if the remake had Miles and Al? |
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Location: Upper Left USA | "Young Frahn-kin-steen'" |
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Location: Athens, GA & Gnashville | Originally posted by alpep:
IMHO the movie was unwatchable. I LOVE the original producers movie. I tried several times to watch the remake and just could not FWIW, I agree. |
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Location: NJ | glad I didn't bother . . . woulda' ruined the memory for me. |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | The 'Curb Your Enthusiasm' 'The Producers' episodes were hilarious. |
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Location: NJ | Those WERE good!!! |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | Originally posted by cliff:
The Good News:
"The Producers" will be replaced with a stage production of "YoungFrankenstein" . . .
THIS . . oughta' be GOOD!!! Anna Nicole would have been great as Elizabeth.
As far as the OFC Cast Version, let's see:
Dr.F - Al
Monster - Moody
Igor - Cliff
Elizabeth - Brad
Yes, this oughta' be GOOD!!! |
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Location: south east Michigan | What knockers!!!!
I used to take dates to see Monty Python, Young Frankenstein, or Blazing Saddles as kind of a litmus test to see if we were on the same page.
It kinda turned out to work both ways.
BTW... the women I married some 28 years ago thinks Young Frankenstein is the funniest movie ever made. |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | It's up there. |
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Location: Upper Left USA | Like asking her if she would like to meet for Raktajino at a Trekkie Convention?
My significantly other has a weakness for Monty Python, Red Green and Titus but will avoid Red Dwarf at all costs!
That Broadway offering of YF would be worth a trip. |
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Location: Upper Left USA | BTW, "How's your head?" |
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Location: south east Michigan | I actually took a real, live girl type person to a Trek Convention. There weren't many guys there that could say that.
A Klingon tried to hit on her.
I'd be first in line for Young Frankenstein on the stage. |
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Location: NJ | Brad;
Exactly how many "women" DID you marry all those years ago?? . . . y'polygamist STUD, you!! . . .
". . I'll marry you, . . and I'll marry you. . . ."
"Why, that'd be bigomy! . . . "
". . That WOULD be big o'me!! . . ."
- Groucho Marx |
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Location: south east Michigan | Oh cripes...
And I can't go back & correct it.
I shoulda went with one of the other words that came to mind...
Chick
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Location: NJ | hmmm . . .
Van . . . .
Salt Lake City . . .
. . . it's all coming t'gether, now . . . |
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Location: GA USA | Oh man, I was trying to think of something to say, but I can't top Van . . . . Salt Lake City . . .
Comic gold! |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | Warren Durasa. |
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| The Producers will always be remembered as Mel's masterpiece. The remake sucked like a Hoover.
I always thought Blazing Saddles was funnier than YF, but the margin was tiny.
Gene Wilder was a seriously unfunny guy in real life but he was in two iof the funniest films ever made - The Producers and Silver Bullet. Go figure.
(Y'all notice how good mah Amerikan iz gittin'?) |
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Location: NJ | "Silver Streak"?? |
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Location: Minden, Nebraska | Frau Blucher? |
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Location: south east Michigan | Before things get out of hand, let me say that the "van" was not mine. It was sitting in the used car lot & I just took a picture.
But feel free to let your creative minds go where they will. |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | I was trying to put that together with your knowledge of bars in Sun Valley. It didn't seem to fit very well. The multiple wives and SLC was easy. The van was a stretch, but reachable. |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | Originally posted by MWoody:
My significantly other.....will avoid Red Dwarf at all costs! Strange, and I thought she'd have a sense of humour....being with you and all.
(BTW- does she differentiate between the first three seasons and the later ones?) |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | No van... but, I've spent many ' night down by the Wood River... |
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Location: Isle of Man, UK | Managed to catch Spamalot when in London for a flying visit (an entire 12 hours) a couple of months ago... very nearly hurt myself. Laughed for an hour until the interval, giggled for 15 minutes at all the other stuff, and then laughed for another hour.
At the risk of incurring the wrath of the comedy gods, I'm afraid that The Producers is still on my "to watch" list. I may well start with the re-make, then graduate to the proper one.
FillHixx - my opinion as a hugely confirmed Dwarf-geek is that the first three are funnier, particularly if you've watch all the rest and go back to them...
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Location: NJ | No!
Go STRAIGHT to ZeroMostel/GeneWilder. |
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Location: NJ | When I saw the Bdwy. production, there's a part where the cops burst in through the office door to arrest Bialistock&Bloom.
During the bursting in, the "stage gun" that the lead cop is hoding somehow gets broken, and the barrel just falls OFF the gun, and lands onto the floor in the middle of the scene.
Dead silence.
Nathan Lane glances down at the gun barrel, glances up at the cop, and then out at the audience. The entire audience is in complete stitches, while everyone on stage is biting their collective lips trying to retain composure. Finally, Lane starts doing his lines, all the while rummaging through his pants pocket. As he finishes his line, he hands the cop $20.
He says "Here's twenty bucks, . . . getcherself a new gun, . . . something in a Luger . . ."
He looks at the audience, and says
"Four hundred bucks a ticket for THIS shit?? . . ."
I thought Broderick was gonna piss himself . . . |
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Location: Athens, GA & Gnashville | LMAO!!! Now that's a REAL pro!! |
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