Forbidden Broadway

Forbidden Broadway is an off-Broadway show created and written by Gerard Alessandrini and directed by Alessandrini and long-time collaborator Phillip George. It opened on January 15, 1982 at Palsson's Supper Club in New York City. The current incarnation, Forbidden Broadway: Special Victims Unithttp://www.forbiddenbroadway.com, is playing at the 47th Street Theatre.

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Broadway - January 15 - 1982 - Palsson's Supper Club - New York City - 47th Street Theatre

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The show is a musical that spoofs the show tunes of current Broadway musicals, often commenting on the apparent deterioration of Broadway and how nothing is what it used to be on the Great White Way. Forbidden Broadway has mocked megahits like Les Miserables, Annie Get Your Gun, Hairspray, The Lion King, The Music Man, Miss Saigon, and Rent. They also target famous Broadway actors, writers, composers, directors, and producers, including Carol Channing, Ann Miller, Ethel Merman, Mary Martin, Barbra Streisand, Mandy Patinkin, Patti LuPone, Stephen Sondheim, and Elton John.

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Spoofs - Les Miserables - Annie Get Your Gun - Hairspray - The Lion King - The Music Man - Miss Saigon - Rent - Carol Channing - Ann Miller - Ethel Merman - Mary Martin - Barbra Streisand - Mandy Patinkin - Patti LuPone - Stephen Sondheim - Elton John

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Forbidden Broadway is a four-person show, with two men and two women. Aside from a two-decade-long run, Forbidden Broadway has released eight albums, as well as one entitled Forbidden Hollywood, a soundtrack of the show of the same title by Alessandrini. Like Forbidden Broadway, Forbidden Hollywood is all about parodies, except it targets movies rather than musicals.

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