But I refuse to pretend that Brooks' score for The Producers is a praiseworthy professional product. As a full-length CD, Brooks' songs ultimately make for some damned dull listening. Anyone other than Brooks would have been roasted for bringing some of this stuff to Broadway. Mind you, there is fun to be had. But Brooks never lets his characters sing with any sincerity or genuine heart.
Every song keeps things at a cartoon level.
The lyric itself has no real emotion to back it up. Worse, it is not really funny. Even the ballads never stop kidding. You can't blame the incomparable cast. Matthew Broderick has long since perfected the art of playing a nebbish, and his singing has improved since How to Succeed .