Opening Night

Mel Brooks & Jennifer Smith & The Producers Ensemble * Track #2 On The Producers (Original Broadway Cast Recording)

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Mel Brooks

2001

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Opening Night by Mel Brooks (Ft. Bryn Dowling, Jennifer Smith & The Producers Ensemble)

Release Date

Mon Mar 26 2001

Performed by

Mel BrooksJennifer Smith & The Producers Ensemble

Produced by

Frederic H. Mayerson & Rhoda Mayerson & Lynn Landis

Writed by

Mel Brooks

About

This song is set on the opening night of Funny Boy, a musical adaptation of William Shakespeare’s Hamlet, the most recent in a long series of flop shows produced by the once-great Max Bialystock (Nathan Lane). When opening night becomes closing night, the audience berates the play, and Max himself.
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Opening Night Lyrics

[USHERETTES]
Opening night, it's opening night
It's Max Bialystock's latest show
Will it flop or will it go?
The cast is taking its final bow
Here comes the audience now

The doors are open, they're on their way
Let's hear what they have to say

[The audience exits the theater.]

[FIRST NIGHTERS]
He's done it again
He's done it again
Max Bialystock has done it again

We can't believe it
You can't conceive it

[MALE SOLOIST]
How'd he achieve it?

[FIRST NIGHTERS]
It's the worst show in town

We sat there sighing
Groaning and crying
There's no denying
It's the worst show in town

Oh, we wanted to stand up and hiss
We've seen shit, but never like this

Max Bialystock has done it again
The songs were rotten
The book was stinkin'
What he did to Shakespeare
Booth did to Lincoln

We couldn't leave faster, what a disaster
We are still in shock
Who produced this schlock?
That slimy, sleazy Max Bialystock

(spoken)
What a bum!

Opening Night Q&A

Who wrote Opening Night's ?

Opening Night was written by Mel Brooks.

Who produced Opening Night's ?

Opening Night was produced by Frederic H. Mayerson & Rhoda Mayerson & Lynn Landis.