Blazing Saddles On Broadway?
Exciting news.
Mel Brooks is en route to taking over Broadway.
The Jewish funnyman revealed in an interview yesterday that a Broadway adaption of his 1974 Western comedy, “Blazing Saddles,” is in the works.
“Well ‘Blazing Saddles’ is almost there. I get the feeling that if I could find the time to write three or four more songs, it could be a bold and crazy musical,” Brooks told The Wrap.
Brooks, 86, said he has no intentions of retiring any time soon, and has hinted in previous interviews that he’s working on a “Blazing Saddles” show. Last year, Brooks told Broadway Worldhe was “thinking” about it.
“A lot of it is musical already. It has a rather fanciful and fantastic tone to it. and now that Django Unchained has literally used the N word, I think I’m in the clear. I don’t look so bad. He really used that word a lot,” he noted.
I’d see a Blazing Saddles Broadway show in a heartbeat. But I’d rather method acting was not employed for this scene.
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Now the simple folk, the common clave of the new west, the citizens of that dusty little town of Rock Ridge will now be able to sing and dance in a big Broadway musical. Long live Mel Brooks!
young frankenstein didnt work on broadway
im glad that mel is still working, but revamping your movies for the stage is kind of a cheat
and i still prefer the movie version of the producers to the stage version….hitler as a free love hippie is funny…hitler as a queen is not
and no one can top zero….no one
however, a live version of the campfire scene would be pretty funny to watch
The Producers (1968) was one of the funniest movies ever. The Broadway Show (which I saw a couple of weeks before 9/11) was way overrated.