The Producers [2005 Soundtrack]

1	The Producers, musical play~Overture 0:43
2	The Producers, musical play~Opening Night 1:46
3	The Producers, musical play~We Can Do It 3:57
4	The Producers, musical play~I Wanna Be A Producer 6:14
5	The Producers, musical play~Der Guten Tag Hop-Clop 1:57
6	The Producers, musical play~Keep It Gay 5:53
7	The Producers, musical play~When You Got It, Flaunt It 3:11
8	The Producers, musical play~Along Came Bialy 3:52
9	The Producers, musical play~That Face 4:16
10	The Producers, musical play~Haben Sie Gehürt Das Deutsche Band? 1:19
11	The Producers, musical play~You Never Say Good Luck On Opening Night 1:34
12	The Producers, musical play~Springtime For Hitler - Part 1 3:40
13	The Producers, musical play~Heil Myself 0:52
14	The Producers, musical play~Springtime For Hitler - Part 2 3:01
15	The Producers, musical play~You'll Find Your Happiness In Rio 1:10
16	The Producers, musical play~Betrayed 4:26
17	The Producers, musical play~Til Him 3:10
18	The Producers, musical play~Prisoners Of Love (Broadway) 2:16
19	The Producers, musical play~Prisoners Of Love (Leo And Max) 1:27
20	The Producers, musical play~There's Nothing Like A Show On Broadway 3:42
21	The Producers, musical play~The Hop-Clop Goes On 3:34
22	The Producers, musical play~Goodbye! 0:37
23	The Producers, musical play~The King Of Broadway (Bonus Track) 4:38

Barnes & Noble

Like his hapless protagonists, Mel Brooks still has a hit on his hands with The Producers. First, a Broadway musical version of his late-'60s cult classic movie about two larcenous theatrical producers became a runaway hit. And now a new major motion picture version of The Producers -- with Matthew Broderick and Nathan Lane reprising their Broadway roles -- is a must-see movie event. Though The Producers' kitschy humor is almost uniformly lowbrow and Brooks's by-the-book score hasn't a patch on musical theater legends such as Sondheim, Lerner & Loewe, or even Jerry Herman, the show is really entertaining in its own exuberantly vulgar way. Lane and Broderick are joined by Saturday Night Live alum Will Ferrell, who nearly steals the show-within-a-show with his lunatic portrayal of the Hitler-worshipping playwright Franz Liebken. Though the movie soundtrack differs from the stage version in a few details, it and the movie are an excellent introduction to a long-running production that has the legs to outlast Cats. The movie also stars blonde American bombshell Uma Thurman as ditzy Swedish bombshell Ulla (she of the unpronounceable, multisyllabic surname) and features the irrepressible Debra Monk as one of the sexed-up little old lady investors and Gary Beech as the loopy, visionary director, Roger De Bris. From start-to-finish, the soundtrack to The Producers is packed with enough off-kilter comedic charm to stay in heavy rotation. L.D. Beghtol

All Music Guide

The Producers began as a 1968 film comedy starring Zero Mostel and Gene Wilder about a Broadway producer and an accountant who deliberately create a flop musical in order to pocket their investors' money, only to be foiled when the show turns into a success. Writer/director Mel Brooks turned the story into an actual Broadway musical in 2001, even writing his own score (which satirized show music of the '40s and '50s), and it became a long-running hit. So, inevitably, a film based on the musical (based on the film about a musical) followed in 2005, and just as inevitably, there was a soundtrack album. The stage musical, of course, had generated a perfectly adequate cast album, making the soundtrack album a disposable redundancy, but never mind. The film features many of the same performers from Broadway, notably stars Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick, along with Gary Beach and Roger Bart, although box-office names Uma Thurman and Will Ferrell have replaced others; both are unobjectionable. The orchestrations provide for a bigger orchestra, naturally. The album adds a good, if unnecessary new song, "There's Nothing Like a Show on Broadway," as well as a strange version of "Der Guten Tag Hop-Clop," re-titled "The Hop-Clop Goes On" and given an Adult Contemporary ballad arrangement. "The King of Broadway," one of the show's better songs, was cut from the film version, but a recording of it has been stuck on the end of the soundtrack album, anyway. The original Broadway cast album is still the recording of this music to buy. (A version of the soundtrack album sold only at Borders stores added another track, "In Old Bavaria.") William Ruhlmann