{"id":1323,"date":"2008-10-23T11:49:54","date_gmt":"2008-10-23T15:49:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=1323"},"modified":"2018-11-18T22:50:40","modified_gmt":"2018-11-19T03:50:40","slug":"live-on-stage-they-saved-hitlers-brain-the-musical","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2008\/10\/23\/live-on-stage-they-saved-hitlers-brain-the-musical\/","title":{"rendered":"Live On Stage- THEY SAVED HITLER’S BRAIN: THE MUSICAL"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>If The Producers<\/em> didn\u2019t fill your need for on-stage singing and dancing Nazis, then prepare yourself for an upcoming sci-fi musical comedy stage adaptation of the 1963 camp film They Saved Hitler\u2019s Brain<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The upcoming show is being produced by Mark Altman and Chris Wyatt. Jon and Al Kaplan, who wrote the Off-Broadway spoofs Silence! Silence Of The Lambs: The Musical<\/em> and 24: Season 2: The Musical<\/em> will be writing the show\u2019s book and songs.<\/p>\n

The announcement in Variety<\/a><\/em> doesn\u2019t state where the show will debut, but given the Kaplan\u2019s past stage works, it feels safe to say that Hitler\u2019s Brain<\/em> will be an Off-Broadway production.<\/p>\n

Wyatt is perhaps best known as the producer of the 2004 comedy Napoleon Dynamite<\/strong>. Altman is no stranger to geek and genre projects. The former editor of the late, lamented Sci-Fi Universe Magazine<\/em> has produced the films Free Enterprise<\/strong>, D.O.A.: Dead On Arrival<\/strong> and House Of The Dead<\/strong>. He is also currently developing a remake of the 1983 teen comedy My Tutor<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

They Saved Hitler\u2019s Brain<\/strong> was originally released to theaters under the title Madmen Of Mandoras<\/strong> and told the story of a scientist and his daughter who are kidnapped to an island in the Caribbean where Nazi scientists have Hitler\u2019s head preserved in a jar in the hopes of launching a Fourth Reich. Because if you\u2019re going to launch a bid for world domination, why not do it from the comfort of a tropical island? The film didn\u2019t acquire its more lurid title until it started appearing on television in the 1970s.<\/p>\n

While this could turn out to be a campy good time, I have to wonder how active the show\u2019s titular character will be. With just his head existing in a glass jar through the entire story, I don\u2019t think Hitler will be participating in too many dance numbers\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If The Producers didn\u2019t fill your need for on-stage singing and dancing Nazis, then prepare yourself for an upcoming sci-fi musical comedy stage adaptation of the 1963 camp film They Saved Hitler\u2019s Brain. The upcoming [click for more]<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[778,860,67,859],"series":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1323","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"tag-cult-classics","8":"tag-mark-altman","9":"tag-screen-to-stage","10":"tag-they-saved-hitlers-brain"},"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t