Mel Brooks Is Back In The BLAZING SADDLES; Screening And Conversation at Radio City Music Hall

At the end of Mel Brooks' Broadway musical adaptation of his film classic "Young Frankenstein," there's the quick lyrical suggestion that a song and dance version of his 1974 western spoof "Blazing Saddles" is on the way. Does the 90-year-old comedy legend still have it in the works? Perhaps someone will ask when Mel Brooks takes the stage of Radio City Music Hall on September 1st after a 7:30pm screening of "Blazing Saddles."

Brooks has done nearly a dozen of these screening/Q&A events. As he describes the routine to USA Today, "I'm doing 'Blazing Saddles,' the movie first, and then I come out on a feather-bed of cheers and laughs ... All I have to do is just take 15 or 20 minutes of bowing."

In actuality, Brooks tends to spend an hour on stage, fielding questions and telling his hilarious stories, like the about when he auditioned Madeline Kahn for the role of the saucy saloon chanteuse Lili Von Shtupp.

"She didn't really understand. I said, 'Madeline, would you raise your skirt? I want to see your legs.' And she said, 'Oh, it's one of those auditions.' I said, 'No, no. You got me all wrong. We're doing a takeoff of Western movies and one of the big ones is "Destry Rides Again" starring Marlene Dietrich. And she kept straddling a chair with her beautiful netted black stockings and I gotta have good-looking legs.' So, she said, 'OK.' She raised her skirt. She straddled a chair and showed me her legs. I said, 'Oh, my God. You're beautiful.'"

"I was thinking," he adds, "'Why couldn't it be one of those auditions? God. I'll never get another chance.'"

Click here for the full article, visit radiocity.com for tickets and enjoy a bit of Madeline Kahn's performance in "Blazing Saddles."