Forbidden Broadway: 20th Anniversary Edition

Forbidden Broadway: 20th Anniversary Edition is the sixth volume in the Forbidden Broadway

Forbidden Broadway

Forbidden Broadway is an Off-Broadway satirical revue conceived, written and directed by Gerard Alessandrini. The original version of the revue opened on January 15, 1982 at Palsson's Supper Club in New York City and ran for 2,332 performances. Alessandrini has rewritten the show over a dozen...

Cast Albums. Although there isn't a show with the same title, the CD has twenty-five of Forbidden Broadway's best songs, including eight previously unreleased tracks. It was conceived, created and written (parody lyrics) by Gerard Alessandrini

Gerard Alessandrini

Gerard Alessandrini is an American playwright, parodist, actor and theatre director best known for creating the award-winning off-Broadway musical theatre parody revue Forbidden Broadway...

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The CD bears the label "The Ultimate Unreleased Un-Original Cast Recording," pointing out that this does not exclusively feature the original cast. The liner notes give a retrospective of Forbidden Broadway's beginnings, as well as a gallery of photos of the original cast with the stars they mock so lovingly.

This CD returns the parodies of such shows as Ragtime
Ragtime (musical)
Ragtime is a musical with a book by Terrence McNally, lyrics by Lynn Ahrens, and music by Stephen Flaherty.Based on the 1975 novel by E. L. Doctorow, Ragtime tells the story of three groups in America, represented by Coalhouse Walker Jr., a Harlem musician; Mother, the matriarch of a WASP family in...

, Annie
Annie (musical)
Annie is a Broadway musical based upon the popular Harold Gray comic strip Little Orphan Annie, with music by Charles Strouse, lyrics by Martin Charnin, and the book by Thomas Meehan. The original Broadway production opened in 1977 and ran for nearly six years with a blonde Annie as the poster...

, Into the Woods
Into the Woods
Into the Woods is a musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by James Lapine. It debuted in San Diego at the Old Globe Theatre in 1986, and premiered on Broadway in 1987. Bernadette Peters' performance as the Witch and Joanna Gleason's portrayal of the Baker's Wife brought acclaim...

, Cats
Cats (musical)
Cats is a musical composed by Andrew Lloyd Webber, based on Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats by T. S. Eliot...

, Martin Guerre
Martin Guerre (musical)
Martin Guerre is a two-act musical with a book by Claude-Michel Schönberg and Alain Boublil, lyrics by Alain Boublil and Stephen Clark, and music by Claude-Michel Schönberg....

, and Les Misérables
Les Misérables (musical)
Les Misérables , colloquially known as Les Mis or Les Miz , is a musical by Claude-Michel Schönberg, based on the novel of the same name by Victor Hugo....

. Stars like Julie Andrews

Julie Andrews

Dame Julia Elizabeth Andrews, DBE is an English film and stage actress, singer, and author. She is the recipient of Golden Globe, Emmy, Grammy, BAFTA, People's Choice Award, Theatre World Award, Screen Actors Guild and Academy Award honors...

, Mandy Patinkin

Mandy Patinkin

Mandel Bruce "Mandy" Patinkin is an award-winning American actor of stage and screen and a tenor vocalist. He is a noted interpreter of the musical works of Stephen Sondheim, and is best-known for his work in musical theatre, originating iconic roles such as Georges Seurat in Sunday in the Park...

, and Patti Lupone

Patti LuPone

Patti Ann LuPone is an American singer and actress, known for her Tony Award-winning performances as Eva Perón in the 1979 stage musical Evita and as Madame Rose in the 2008 Broadway revival of Gypsy, and for her Olivier Award-winning performance as Fantine in the original London cast of Les...

also share the ridicule.

Featured performers

(In order of first listing in liner notes):

Gerard Alessandrini
Gerard Alessandrini
Gerard Alessandrini is an American playwright, parodist, actor and theatre director best known for creating the award-winning off-Broadway musical theatre parody revue Forbidden Broadway...
Fred Barton
Fred Barton
Fred Barton is an American composer, lyricist, director, actor, singer, arranger, conductor, and pianist who made his New York debut in 1982 as co-creator-arranger-performer-pianist in the original company of the internationally acclaimed revue Forbidden Broadway, appearing in the New York, L.A...

(piano for tracks 1, 17a, 19, and 25)
Bill Carmichael
Nora Mae Lyng
Chlöe Webb
Chloe Webb
Chloe Webb is an American actress.Webb was born in Greenwich Village, Manhattan, New York. Her New York theater debut was in the original cast of the long-running musical satire Forbidden Broadway...
Herndon Lackey
Brad Oscar
Brad Oscar
Brad Oscar is an American musical theatre actor known for his Broadway performances in musicals such as The Producers and Jekyll and Hyde. The former garnered him a Tony Award nomination.-Career:...
Craig Wells
Christine Pedi
Christine Pedi
Christine Pedi is a television and theatre actress. She is also a cabaret performer and radio personality and younger cousin of the late Tom Pedi.-Theatre:BroadwayShe has appeared in three Broadway-theatre productions in New York City, New York....
John Freedson
Brad Ellis
Brad Ellis
Brad Ellis is an American composer, musical director, orchestrator and jazz pianist. Ellis is perhaps most visible as the quiet teacher/piano accompanist for the high school kids on Glee, the Fox television show for which he is part of creator Ryan Murphy's musical production team.Ellis had a long...

(piano for tracks 2, 3, 9, 10, 15, 16, 17b, and 19- 24)
Susanne Blakeslee
Jason Graae
Jason Graae
Jason Graae is an American actor noted for his musical theater performances but with a varied career spanning Broadway, opera, television and film...
Toni DiBuono
Tom Plotkin
Tom Plotkin
Tom Plotkin is an American actor. He is primarily a Broadway performer and is most famous for originating the role of Willard Hewitt in Footloose.-External links:...
Bryan Batt
Bryan Batt
Bryan Batt is an American actor best known for his role in the AMC series Mad Men as Salvatore Romano, an art director for the Sterling Cooper agency. Primarily a theater actor, he has had a number of starring roles in movies and television as well...
Lori Hammel
Edward Staudenmayer
Michael McGrath
Michael McGrath (actor)
Michael McGrath is an American stage actor. He is best known for his role as Patsy in Spamalot, for which he received a nomination for a Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Musical. He has been an ensemble member and understudy for many shows, including My Favorite Year, Swinging on a Star and...
Karen Murphy
Roxie Lucas
Phillip George
Dorothy Kiara
Kevin Ligon
Linda Strasser
Carol Channing
Carol Channing
Carol Elaine Channing is an American singer, actress, and comedienne. She is the recipient of three Tony Awards , a Golden Globe and an Oscar nomination...
Gina Kreiezmar
Stephen Potfora
Kristine Zbornik
Terri White
Terri White
Terri White is an American singer and actress, raised in Palo Alto, California.-Career:She has appeared in Ain't Misbehavin, Barnum, Welcome to the Club and Bubbling Brown Sugar. White has also performed frequently with Liza Minnelli...
Philip Fortenberry (piano for tracks 4, 8, 11, 13, and 14)
Matthew Ward
Matthew Ward
Matthew Ward was an American English/French translator noted for his 1989 rendition of Albert Camus' The Stranger. He made several important alterations from the more British-toned translation by Stuart Gilbert. Most notably he altered the quite well known opening line "Mother died today" to...

(piano for tracks 5- 7 and 18)
August Eriksmoen (piano for track 21)

Tracks

Listed here are the tracks on the CD, with the title of the number followed by the song which it parodies and the original composer.

01 Forbidden Broadway (original, Alessandrini) (volume 1)
02 The Music Man (volume 3)

Trouble in New York City ("Trouble", Wilson)

03 My Fair Lady (previously unreleased)

Import Gavotte ("Ascot Gavotte", Lerner-Lowe)

04 Annie (volume 2)

Tomorrow ("Tomorrow

Tomorrow (1977 song)

"Tomorrow" is a song from the musical Annie, with music by Charles Strouse and lyrics by Martin Charnin, published in 1977.-Production history in the musical:...

", Strouse

Charles Strouse

Charles Strouse is an American composer and lyricist.-Life and career:Strouse was born and raised in New York City, the son of Ira and Ethel Strouse...

-Charnin

Martin Charnin

Martin Charnin is an American lyricist, writer, and theatre director. Charnin's best-known work is as conceiver, director and lyricist of the hit musical Annie....

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05 Cameron Mackintosh (volume 4)

My Souvenir Things ("My Favorite Things", Rodgers

Richard Rodgers

Richard Charles Rodgers was an American composer of music for more than 900 songs and for 43 Broadway musicals. He also composed music for films and television. He is best known for his songwriting partnerships with the lyricists Lorenz Hart and Oscar Hammerstein II...

-Hammerstein

Oscar Hammerstein II

Oscar Greeley Clendenning Hammerstein II was an American librettist, theatrical producer, and theatre director of musicals for almost forty years. Hammerstein won eight Tony Awards and was twice awarded an Academy Award for "Best Original Song". Many of his songs are standard repertoire for...

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06 Elaine Stritch (volume 4)

Stritch ("Zip!", Rodgers-Hart)

07 The Lion King (volume 5)

Circle of Mice ("Circle of Life", John-Rice)
Can You Feel the Pain Tonight? ("Can You Feel the Love Tonight?", John-Rice)

08 Patti Lupone (volume 2)

Patti Lupone ("Anything Goes", Porter)
I Get a Kick Out of Me ("I Get a Kick Out of You", Porter)

09 Martin Guerre (previously unreleased)

It's Martin Guerre ("I'm Martin Guerre", Boubil-Schönberg-Clark)

10 Julie Andrews (volume 3)

I Couldn't Hit that Note ("I Could've Danced All Night", Lerner-Lowe)

11 Into the Woods (volume 2)

Into the Words ("Into the Woods", Sondheim)

12 Chita-Rita ("America", Bernstein- Sondheim) (volume 2)
13 Mandy Patinkin (volume 2)

Somewhat Overindulgent ("Over the Rainbow", Arlen-Harburg)

14 Les Misérables (volume 2)

Les Misérables ("C'est Magnifique", Porter)
End of the Play ("End of the Day", Boubil-Schönberg)
I Dreamed a Show ("I Dreamed a Dream", Boubil-Schönberg)
Bring It Down ("Bring Him Home", Boubil-Schönberg)

15 Carol Channing (volume 3)

Imitation is the Sincerest Form of Flattery (original, Alessandrini)

16 Old Revivals ("Oklahoma!", Rodgers-Hammerstein) (previously unreleased)
17 Merman and Martin

It's De-Merman ("It's De-Lovely", Porter) (volume 1)
Old Fashioned Ballad ("Old Fashioned Wedding", Berlin) (volume 3)

18 Ragtime (volume 5)

Gagtime ("Ragtime", Flaherty-Ahrens)
A Really Long Note ("The Wheels of a Dream", Flaherty-Ahrens)

19 Sarah Brightman (previously unreleased)

Time I Said, "Goodbye" ("Con te Partirò", Sartori-Quarantotto)

20 Aspects of Love (previously unreleased)

I Sleep with Everyone ("Love Changes Everything", Lloyd Webber-Rice-Hart)

21 Screamgirls (previously unreleased)

And I Am Telling You I'm Not Screaming ("And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going", Ayen-Krieger)

22 Liza Minnelli (volume 2)

Liza One-Note (original, Alessandrini, based on "Johnny One-Note", Rodgers-Hart)

23 Back to Barbara ("On a Clear Day You Can See Forever", Lerner-Lowe)(volume 3)
24 Cats (previously unreleased)

I Enjoy Being a Cat ("I Enjoy Being a Girl", Rodgers-Hammerstein)
Memory ("Memory", Lloyd Webber-Eliot)

25 Fiddler on the Roof (volume 1)

Ambition ("Tradition", Bock-Harnick)

Featured performers

Tracks

See also