![]() You can’t go wrong with me.” Trial by FireĪlthough Brooks got the directing gig, it was a far cry from stage managing Sid Caesar’s “Your Show of Shows” on TV. I see ‘Springtime for Hitler,’ I see the burlesque show, the beer, and the pretzels. “I’m the writer, I see it, I see every scene, I see a half-moon coming out of the office window, I see little old ladies and what they look like on the couch being thrilled, being loved by Bialystock. “When Joe Levine said we needed a director, I said I can be the director,” added Brooks. “As writers, we can only use ourselves,” he said, before explaining how he came to direct such a memorable ensemble cast that included Kenneth Mars (as playwright Franz Liebkind), Dick Shawn (as hippie L.S.D., who plays Hitler), and Christopher Hewett (as cross-dressing director Roger De Bris). The first time he saw him perform at New York’s Village Vanguard, the comedian got on the floor and impersonated a coffee percolator. For Brooks, his co-stars represented the two sides of his own legendary personality. ![]() And Brooks always had Mostel (the Broadway star of “Fiddler on the Roof”) in mind to play the overbearing Bialystock. ![]()
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