The Berlin production, with its risqué promotional campaign, has already been causing quite a stir in the German capital. The Admiralspalast theater has been draped in giant red flags bedecked with black pretzels and sausages — a satire on the swastika flag, illegal in postwar Germany.
It took eight years for Mel Brooks’ runaway Broadway musical success to come to Germany, but “The Producers” is finally opening in Berlin
