Why Was This Disgusting Nazi Dancing Troupe's Gate Crash, Allowed To Take Place?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2971867/Ukip-conference-gatecrashed-NAZI-dancing-troupe-goose-stepping-Margate-Second-World-War-tank.html

[Peter Pedant]

AOG you need to go out and see 'The Producers'
I would buy you a ticket if you want

[Khandro]

PP; //AOG you need to go out and see 'The Producers'
I would buy you a ticket if you want//

You seem to be missing the point (or making the pretence of); going to watch the musical, The Producers", and the display put on outside of the UKIP conference are entirely different things, and you know damn well so.

[mikey4444]

Zacs...very enjoyable...many thanks !

[jackthehat]

There will have been other towns where this 'promotional event' will have occured which have not been hosting any Political Conferences.

It is only the proximity of the UKIP-pers in this instance which have caused *outrage*....etc.....etc.

Nothing to see here......move along.....

[jno]

Khandro, are you suggesting that The Producers being played in the same part of the world as the Ukip conference was somehow not a coincidence?

[Svejk]

I doubt they've done this sort of 'advertising' 70 miles from the theatre before, what do you think?

[jackthehat]

It is a 'Touring Production' of the show.......is it so beyond the realms of possability that it might be scheduled to be put on in Margate at some time in the near future?

[Svejk]

Yeah, right. (snigger)

[mikey4444]

Jackthehat...it is on in nearby Bromley early next month...see my previous link.

[andy-hughes]

AOG - "andy-hughes

/// So the raison d'etre is to parody the set-up of Broadway shows, and has nothing at all to do with Hitler, and the Nazis. ///

Nothing to do with Hitler and the Nazi????? then why did the costumes contained Nazi insignia?"

Because they are putting on a musical about Hitler and the Nazis in order to create the biggest flop on Broadway.

You can't demonstrate how deliberately offensive you are being, unless you shove the tastelessness of your production unless you flaunt it that them in the most OTT way you can - which is the scene alluded to on this thread.

If you want to make people work hard for the point of your entertainment, you are Samuel Beckett, not Mel Brookes.

[Peter Pedant]

// The Producers", and the display put on outside of the UKIP conference are entirely different things, and you know damn well so. //

Khandro keep your hat on - please

I think it is inspired advertising for the production

The tories slogan for one election was Forward with the Tories
and there is a photo of Thatcher WAR .....
that is a photie of the girl herself and a cut down slogan

she never complained
very popular with the armed forces apparently

[Peter Pedant]

AOG has a point

in 1601 during Essex' rebellion, he had the Bongo Players ( or someone ) play a performance of Shakespeare's Richard II

which is all about deposition of a lawfully crowned monarch....

OK it was nt the Bongo Players - buut Players of the Sun Theatre or the Lord Chancellors Men

[Peter Pedant]

and in another place AOG has succinctly made a good point:

Why Do Certain Groups Find It Necessary To Oppose These Groups, Why Don't They Just Let Them Have Their Protest And Go Away?

applies here doesnt it ?

[stuey]

What a production this thread turned out to be:)

[mikey4444]

Stuey......" Keep it gay, keep it gay, keep it gay " !

[Peter Pedant]

The great andy H // /// So the raison d'etre is to parody the set-up of Broadway shows, and has nothing at all to do with Hitler, and the Nazis. ///
Nothing to do with Hitler and the Nazi????? then why did the costumes contained Nazi insignia?"
Because they are putting on a musical about Hitler and the Nazis in order to create the biggest flop on Broadway.//

how quickly the worm turns
only 24 hrs ago a certain AH was castigating me for drawing a parallel with the Nazis in another thread

fruitless analogy I think he described it

and here he is well weighing in on my side.....

[jourdain2]

I haven't read any other comments, but I would like to thank Buenchico for letting me see a bit of 'The Producers' again. Probably time to get serious now, but it was funny.

[Peter Pedant]

jordy how is the move going ?

Yeah I enjoyed the clip and I may EVEN go out and get the viddie ....

[jourdain2]

You'll enjoy the viddie, PP. Movewise, pressure is fairly fierce now and stress levels are mounting. I wake up and the adrenalin has already started flowing! Not helped by French beaurocratic refusals to understand that people just may want to move to other countries. The corner of the rug is being well-chewed by me - the dog is mousing in the boxes and has smashed 2 cut-glass goblets. Par for the course so far! :o) (twitching slightly!)

[Hypognosis]

@Buenchico

Thanks for posting that vid. I don't need to watch it again, because, every time I hear or read someone use phrases along the lines of "foreigners: out", the song plays in my head.

My memory of the film's plot has faded, so I can't remember quite why Mel Brookes' character was so keen to produce a flop, unless it was his character's cynical belief that, if you put on a show which is artistically great, it is doomed to be a financial flop and thus logic dictates that you produce a piece of what you believe to be trash but which the paying public adore.

The humour comes from the production being intended to be deadly serious but, unintentionally, generates big laughs, on opening night.

With regard to the publicity stunt latching onto the UKIP conference, I must reluctantly concur that it looks deliberate: the conference would have been booked months in advance and it's date and location were in the public domain, so not the slightest logistical difficulty getting the dancers there.

Furthermore, I think they've really shot the pooch. Allusions to Nazism should not be used frivolously.

The only respect in which they might be right is that the Nazis emerged at a time of economic chaos, had a "strong leader", charismatic character at the helm and the opposition party was no longer trusted, by the population, to run their economy (hyper-inflation, war reparations to pay etc). The racism and Jew-hating didn't really get going until after they were elected into power.

The dance troupe were therefore only trying to echo the fears of those of us who are to the left of Farage. If UKIP has collected members from the likes of BNP/EDL, gets voted into power and then the membership do to him what the Tories did to Thatchler, then you can see how easily the country could progress to "stage 2".