Another Broadway condensation arrived in early 2007, with Mel Brooks personally overseeing trims to the 90-minute version of the hit musical adapted from his 1968 movie. Brooks recruited Brad Oscar, who followed Nathan Lane on Broadway in the lead role of Max Bialystock and stuck with it longer. The celebrity "stunt casting" went to a supporting role: David Hasselhoff opened the show as the flamboyant director recruited to oversee a sure-fire flop called Springtime for Hitler, which will allow the shifty producers to keep their investors' money.
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