Hitler, the Musical?

Yes, that’s a place. The first musical interpretation of Hitler’s manifesto, Mein Kampf, performed at a theater near Munich, apparently doesn’t—for better or worse—veer into Producers territory. “Adolf Hitler does not appear on stage as a character. There is merely a type of narrator and a musician,” the director, Malte Lachmann, told The Times of London. “This isn’t about frumpy fräuleins in dirndls and people goose-stepping in SS uniforms. It is us having a serious look at what Hitler’s values were, how he expressed them, and what all this means for us today.” Which explains why the show’s creators resisted what must have been a strong temptation to adjust the title slightly and call it Mein Kampf!

In this week’s cultural-crackdown news from China, the country’s broadcasting regulator called for “healthy” cartoon content “that ‘upholds truth, goodness and beauty,’” according to The Times of London.