Forbidden Broadway Goes to Rehab | |
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Music | Various |
Lyrics | Gerard Alessandrini |
Book | Gerard Alessandrini |
Basis | Broadway musicals |
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.
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]
The tracks featured on the cast recording [5]