Forbidden Broadway
is an Off-Broadway satirical revue 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 and ran for 2,332 performances. It has subsequently been rewritten several times to include parodies of newer shows.
The show is a cabaret revue sharply spoofing show tunes, characters and plots of contemporary and current Broadway musicals. Forbidden Broadway
has mocked popular shows like The Phantom of the Opera
, Wicked
, Les Misérables
, Annie Get Your Gun
, Hairspray
, The Lion King
, The Music Man
, Miss Saigon
, and Rent
, to name a few. It also targets famous Broadway actors, writers, composers, directors, choreographers and producers, including Carol Channing, Kristin Chenoweth, Bob Fosse, Elton John, Jennifer Holliday, Bernadette Peters, Patti LuPone, Mary Martin, Idina Menzel, Ethel Merman, Ann Miller, Mandy Patinkin, Stephen Sondheim, Harvey Fierstein, Barbra Streisand and Andrew Lloyd Webber.
Forbidden Broadway
is a four-person show, with two men and two women that has run for over twenty-five years. Forbidden Broadway
has released eight albums, as well as one entitled Forbidden Hollywood
, a cast album of the show of the same title by Alessandrini. Like Forbidden Broadway
, Forbidden Hollywood
is made up of parodies, except that it targets movies rather than musicals. The New York and Los Angeles based companies of both "Forbidden" incarnations have served as a workshop for rising talent to hone their skills. Alumni include Jason Alexander, Brad Oscar, singer/impressionist Christine Pedi, actor Bryan Batt (of AMC's "Mad Men"), Spamalot's Michael McGrath, Chloe Webb (Sid and Nancy), Ed Staudenmayer (Fame Becomes Me), Barbara Walsh (Company, Ragtime), Ann Morrison (Merrily We Roll Along, LoveMusik) and many more.
In 2006, the show and Alessandrini were awarded Tony Honors for Excellence in Theatre. The 25th Anniversary production: Forbidden Broadway: Rude Awakening
won the 2008 Drama Desk Award for outstanding revue with a cast recording recorded on October 18, 2007 and released on January 22, 2008. It starred Jared Bradshaw, Janet Dickinson, James Donegan and Valerie Fagan The final incarnation, Forbidden Broadway Goes to Rehab
, ended its run at the 47th Street Theatre in New York on March 1, 2009. It starred Christina Bianco, Jared Bradshaw, Gina Kreiezmar, and Michael West, with David Caldwell at the piano.
The original artwork advertising the show was designed by caricaturist Ken Fallin, who suggested the actors find the name "Nina" written on their bodies as an homage to Al Hirschfeld, who was known for working his daughter's name into his drawings. [1]
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FORBIDDEN BROADWAY TICKETS
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| Forbidden Broadway Tickets 1/3 | Jan 03, 2025
Fri, 7:30 PM |  | | Forbidden Broadway Tickets 1/4 | Jan 04, 2025
Sat, 1:30 PM | | | Forbidden Broadway Tickets 1/4 | Jan 04, 2025
Sat, 7:30 PM | | | Forbidden Broadway Tickets 1/5 | Jan 05, 2025
Sun, 1:00 PM | | | Forbidden Broadway Tickets 1/5 | Jan 05, 2025
Sun, 6:30 PM | |
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