Forbidden Broadway Goes to Rehab

Forbidden Broadway Goes to Rehab
Music Various
Lyrics Gerard Alessandrini
Basis Broadway parodies
Productions 2008 Off Broadway

Forbidden Broadway Goes to Rehab is the 2008 incarnation of Gerard Alessandrini's long-running hit Off-Broadway musical revue Forbidden Broadway, which parodies notable current Broadway and Off Broadway musicals. It was initially announced that this would be the final version of the show, until the franchise was revived with Forbidden Broadway: Alive & Kicking! in 2012 and Forbidden Broadway Comes Out Swinging! in 2014.

Production

Forbidden Broadway Goes to Rehab opened on September 17, 2008 at New York's 47th Street Theatre [1] and closed on March 1, 2009. The show was conceived, created and written by Alessandrini[2] and was co-directed by Alessandrini and Phillip George.

The plays and musicals parodied in Forbidden Broadway Goes to Rehab include August: Osage County, Equus, Spring Awakening, In the Heights, A Tale of Two Cities, South Pacific, Mary Poppins, Gypsy, Sunday In The Park With George, Young Frankenstein, and Xanadu. The personalities portrayed include Bernadette Peters, Patti LuPone, Liza Minnelli and Kristin Chenoweth.[3][4]

Opening Cast

[1]

Replacements and Understudies

Parodies

Forbidden Broadway Goes to Rehab - Entire Cast - A revision of the Forbidden Broadway theme. It talks about people being "broadway-a-holics.
All That Chat - Cast- Bebe Neuwirth played by Christina Bianco, Bloggers
Gina Kreiezmar & James Donegan
All That Jazz from Chicago
Broadway Prices are High
Broadway Info on the Internet
A Shot Rings Out - Like in the musical, Chicago
In the Heights - Cast- Lin-Manuel Miranda played by Michael West, Piragua Man
James Donegan, Abuela Claudia: Gina Kreiezmar, Maira from "West Side Story": Christina Bianco
In the Heights from In the Heights

Original Cast album

Source:iTunes[5]

The tracks featured on the cast recording

  1. Forbidden Broadway Goes to Rehab
  2. All That Chat
  3. In the Heights Segment
  4. Tale of Two Cities Segment
  5. South Pacific Segment
  6. Mary Poppins: 2nd Season
  7. August: Osage County
  8. Daniel Radcliffe in Equus
  9. Patti Lupone [sic] In Gypsy
  10. Young Frankenstein
  11. Xanadude
  12. Kristen [sic] Chenoweth: Glitter and Be Glib
  13. Sondheim: Putting Up Revivals
  14. Stephen Sondheim Finale
  15. My Musical Comedy Smile
  16. The Pajama Game
  17. See Me on a Monday
  18. (Dying Is Easy) Comedy Is Hard

See also

References

  1. 1 2 Brantley, Ben."Giving Their Regards by Skewering the Shows" September 18, 2008
  2. ↑ ForbiddenBroadway.com
  3. ↑ Gans, Andrew.Name Change: Forbidden Broadway Goes to Rehab Will Open Sept. 17" playbill.com, September 4, 2008
  4. ↑ Sommer, Elyse."Review, 'Forbidden Broadway Goes to Rehab' " September 15, 2008
  5. ↑

External links

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