“The president of the US laughing at Hitler”

“I'd expect that a huge number of people in the audience at the Kennedy Center already saw the musical on stage or in a movie theater. I saw the stage version, and bent over laughing at the ‘Springtime For Hitler’ number. I remember thinking that it was in some ways the ultimate humiliation of Hitler, that he'd become a figure of such ridicule and camp. And now to have the president of the US laughing at Hitler--even better.”

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