Word: admiralspalast
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...That question overshadowed the opening of The Producers in Berlin's Admiralspalast, the iconic theater where Hitler once sat in the elegant Führer's box and tapped his foot to the tunes of the light opera The Merry Widow. And answering it requires asking two more. It wasn't long into the show's premiere that the first - will German audiences laugh at a parody of Hitler? - was answered with an uproarious yes. But the second is trickier: Should they...
...seemed only foreign correspondents and a few Germany commentators were asking, however. If any of the people in the sold-out opening-night audience at Admiralspalast felt a bit of angst about laughing at blond-haired Nazis singing "Europe, we're going on tour," they got over it pretty quickly...
...Dietmar wasn't the only one who found The Producers too tame for our times. Before coming to Berlin, the show had a 10-month run in Vienna. Originally booked for a year, many performances remained a third empty, and as the economic crisis hit, attendance dropped off. The Admiralspalast saw an opportunity and contracted the Austria cast to play the remaining two months on the German-language license in Berlin. (See pictures of Barack Obama in Berlin...
...Admiralspalast, on Friedrichstrasse in the Soviet sector of Berlin, is a traditional house of light opera. One night last week there was a performance of Rimsky-Korsakov's The Czar's Bride. A few hours earlier, in the afternoon, the Communist lackeys of Russia put on a go-minute political show which might have been entitled The Rape of Berlin...
...Russians ordered the 26 Red members of the Assembly to the Admiralspalast, and filled out the rump convention with some 3,000 hand-picked delegates from Communist-controlled trade unions, splinter parties, women's and youth's groups. Each delegate was given a white card, to make the voting look impressive when they raised their hands. The leader, proposed that the present "undemocratic, reactionary city administration be dismissed." The white cards fluttered like snow on the wind; the vote in favor was unanimous. A candidate was proposed for mayor, and again the white cards waved. A list...