In my book, one of the funniest comedies ever is the 1968 film, "The Producers" starring Zero Mostel and Gene Wilder and written and directed by Mel Brooks. In my opinion, as close to comedy perfection as one can get. So you can imagine my sadness when Mel Brooks decided to take the movie to Broadway and replace Mostel and Wilder with Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick. OK fine...nothing against those two gents.. but they're no Mostel and Wilder. Then, Brooks decides to do a film version of the play that was originally a film...not so good. THEN as Nathan and Matthew leave the show, Brooks replaces Nathan's character with Tony Danza. Yes,
that Tony Danza.
But now Mel Brooks, in a move I can only attribute to early stages of dementia, has opened the show in Las Vegas and has added as a cast member non other than David Hasselhoff.
So the show, "The Producers" has now become the kind of bloated, self-centered, over-produced Broadway show that the original movie of the same name tried to satirize. In telling the tale about two guys intentionally making a bad Broadway show, by filling it with tacky musical numbers and bad actors, Brooks has actually made a bad Broadway show by filling it with tacky musical numbers and bad actors. Talk about irony biting you in the ass.
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