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Though some of us wondered why New York kicked up such a fuss about The Producers, the
“Springtime for Hitler” number made everything clear — or almost so. The entire show builds to this moment, and when it comes, it’s got the lot: a tease of a beginning, catchy tunes, chorines prancing about in ’30s-style Hollywood headdresses that feature a beer stein, a pretzel and a sausage, black-helmeted storm troopers gliding forward in nightmarish rows, and a Hitler (Lee Roy Reams) who adopts a chilling world-conquering pose and then drops it to camp blithely all over the stage.
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