Forbidden Broadway is returning!

[madbrian]

Posted: 5/10/12 at 1:53pm

Good news!
Forbidden Broadway

[Patti LuPone FANatic]

Posted: 5/10/12 at 2:04pm

This is awesome news! I saw it once in 2006, I think. from RC in Austin, Texas

[Ed_Mottershead]

Posted: 5/10/12 at 2:11pm

I always loved their shows. Great to hear that it's coming back!

[ChildrenwillListen]

Posted: 5/10/12 at 2:16pm

YAY! Finally some good Broadway news! I've always wanted to see a Forbidden Broadway show!

[bjh2114]

Posted: 5/10/12 at 2:16pm

YAY!!!!!! I've missed it so much.

[jpbran]

Posted: 5/10/12 at 2:32pm

Just hope they don't spend TOO much time making too-easy Spider-Man jokes; making fun of that show has already been done to death. (though I know they'll have a great take on it)

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 5/10/12 at 2:34pm

It's a bright and hopeful day on the Corner!

[TheaterBoy7777]

Posted: 5/10/12 at 2:44pm

I would love it if Christine Pedi was magically available to do this.

[Gothampc]

Posted: 5/10/12 at 2:53pm

This is great.

Years ago I saw Gerry Alessandrini in Footlight Records. I glanced over at the records he was looking at because I'm sure he was researching his next edition of Forbidden Broadway.

[SNAFU]

Posted: 5/10/12 at 2:55pm

Somewhere Corine peed herself just a tad.

[once a month]

Posted: 5/10/12 at 3:33pm

Now this is a show I'm looking forward to! I found it at Palsons (?sp)Supper Club eons ago, and this will make my 6th visit. Always such a fun evening!

[Pammylicious]

Posted: 5/10/12 at 3:42pm

I remember their spoof of Light in the Piazza. I seriously peed my pants from it.

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 5/10/12 at 3:53pm

Corine is already calling and demanding comps.

[GlindatheGood22]

Posted: 5/10/12 at 4:05pm

Can't wait to see what they do with the Mormons!

[CATSNYrevival]

Posted: 5/10/12 at 4:14pm

Just hope they don't spend TOO much time making too-easy Spider-Man jokes; making fun of that show has already been done to death. (though I know they'll have a great take on it)

I admit that it's not very original, but I was listening to the FB Cleans Up its Act album the other day and I thought that they wouldn't need to change many of the lyrics to "Can You Feel the Pain Tonight" to make it work for Spider-Man.

I hate Julie Taymor.
She doesn't have a clue...

Can you feel the pain tonight?
The cracking bones,
The tearing cartilage
Kills all living things. etc.




Updated On: 5/10/12 at 04:14 PM

[bwaylvsong]

Posted: 5/10/12 at 4:16pm

Woohoo! I never got to see the "original" live bit have listened to most of the CDs and love them. I can't wait to finally see it!

[best12bars]

Posted: 5/10/12 at 4:20pm

Very glad to hear it!

I worked a couple of years at Palsson's Supper Club, where the show first ran, back in the mid-'80s. It was still fairly new. I waited tables and even ran the FB box office a few times. Such good memories ...

[Ejm105989]

Posted: 5/10/12 at 4:48pm

Sweet!

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 5/10/12 at 11:34pm

Corine's been so depressed since the show closed. I hope they talked to her first so she could get the scoop, and that we'll see her around here more now.

[Jonwo]

Posted: 5/11/12 at 12:16am

Never mind Spider-Man, Leap of Faith will be ripped to shred by Forbidden Broadway.

I loved FB's Disney parodies especially Beauty's been Decreased and Can You Feel the Pain Tonight and Circle of Mice. Hope they do a good parody of Newsies but nothing can beat The Light in the Piazza spoof.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 5/11/12 at 12:17am

They tend to do more with shows that had long runs or are still running.

[Matt2]

Posted: 5/11/12 at 1:05am

I've only recently found this legendary Corine and her, um, shall I say interesting Corner here on BWW. And I gotta say that I don't know how I managed to live without her before. She just leaves you (and her interviewees it seems) speechless... just for all the wrong reasons. So sad I came to this board too late to really get in on the wonderful wackiness. The message board must have been just a treat to come to!

Updated On: 5/11/12 at 01:05 AM

[voteforsaraberry]

Posted: 5/11/12 at 7:30am

http://www.playbill.com/news/article/165819-New-Edition-of-Forbidden-Broadway-With-Spoofs-of-Newsies-Once-Mormon-Spider-Man-Will-Begin-in-July

"The new edition will include spoofs of Ghost The Musical, Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, Once, Newsies, Nice Work If You Can Get It, Jesus Christ Superstar, Godspell, Evita, The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess, Follies, End Of The Rainbow, Clybourne Park, Other Desert Cities, Death of a Salesman, The Book of Mormon, Anything Goes, Sister Act and more"

I'm really way too excited about this.

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 5/11/12 at 7:41am

Still no official word from CoCo?

Has anyone heard from her?? I fear she's fallen and she can't get up...

[broadwayjim42]

Posted: 5/11/12 at 8:03am

A lot of the cast was involved in "Newsical The Musical," but were most of the writers and composers as well? Have seen various incarnations of FB and have mostly loved them, but I thought "Newiscal," save for Christine Pedi's Liza, was awful.