"Creator Gerard Alessandrini announced that after "Forbidden Broadway Goes to Rehab" shutters Jan. 15, "Forbidden Broadway" will take what's to be at least an extended break from Gotham, although the show plans to tour the country after that.
Alessandrini hopes the property will return to Gotham down the line, though whether and when it happens has yet to be firmed up. He cited the "changing of the artistic climate on Broadway" as the impetus for the downtime."
"Winning a Tony this year is like winning Best Attendance in third grade: no one will care but the winner and their mom."
-Kad
"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)
"Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.”
~ Muhammad Ali
I've found the last few incarnations to take rude shots at performers' careers, as opposed to the productions themselves.
Maybe at one point this show had a purpose, but I don't see the purpose of it now.
Either that, or the creative team has lost its spark.
"Winning a Tony this year is like winning Best Attendance in third grade: no one will care but the winner and their mom."
-Kad
"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)
Really? I saw "Rude Awakening" about 6 months ago and found it to be good, clean jabs at current shows and Broadway in general.
I'll definitely try to see it before it closes, now that SP, SITPWG, Gypsy, and ITH are being spoofed. I thought the current iteration was called "Dances with the Stars." Did it just change?
EDIT: Yeah, looks like it just changed. Also sounds like SITPWG was taken out . Does anyone have a clip or audio of that or wants to tell me what they spoofed? Would have loved to see that.
Updated On: 9/12/08 at 10:17 AM
"Winning a Tony this year is like winning Best Attendance in third grade: no one will care but the winner and their mom."
-Kad
"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)
Wow... Good thing I got tickets to see this next week. I'll see how it is.
"I don't want the pretty lights to come and get me."-Homecoming 2005
"You can't pray away the gay."-Callie Torres on Grey's Anatomy.
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And I worked as a waiter upstairs with the show for a couple of years at Palsson's Supper Club (their first venue). I also worked the Forbidden Broadway box office.
That was 23 years ago.
Here's to a great, long run. Some wonderful memories of performers, crew, bartenders and waitstaff alike.
Cheers! It was a very good run.
"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."
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Gee, WannaBe .. any time someone says something along those same lines about a show you like (especially [tos]), you bombard them with nasty remarks about how miserable they must be in life and that they are jealous of other people's success. Hmm. What's good for the goose ...
But on a positive note ... FB has given thousands of people a lot of good laughs and fun times, and I am grateful for the talents of Gerard and his wonderful casts throughout the years. I always looked forward to the next incarnation. True, not all were as good as others, but it always delivered. A little slice of the NY theatre scene will be missing when there is no more FB to spoof and poke fun at the Great White Way. Updated On: 9/12/08 at 10:59 AM
A young actress with Noel coward after a dreadful opening night performance said to him 'Well, i knew my lines backwards this morning!''
Noels fast reply was ''Yes dear, and thats exactly how you said them tonight'!'
I still have trouble remembering some lyrics from "Everything's Coming Up Roses" because of Forbidden Broadway.
Several years ago, they did a spot at the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. The Ethel Merman actress sang "...and no one gets their turkey till I'm through..." That's the first lyric that always comes to mind.
If anyone ever tells you that you put too much Parmesan cheese on your pasta, stop talking to them. You don't need that kind of negativity in your life.
Sad to see such a long-standing tradition go, but honestly, I've only ever seen "Roast of Utopia" and thought it was terrible, other than the Spring Awakening spoof.
I saw three different editions of Forbidden Broadway over a ten-year period and enjoyed them all. I may not have seen every edition every time I went to NYC, but I liked knowing that it was an option. If there's a tour and it comes to DC, I'll see it, but it just won't be the same.
Does anyone think them offering discount tickets at like $25 doesn't help? I tried getting tickets a couple of days ago when they were $29 & $39 for the discount, but it got taken down right before I was going to order them. So, yesterday I went back, and they had a new discount for $25 & $30. Obviously I was happy for the better discount, but I just don't understand how shows can stay open with the discounts they give sometimes.
"I don't want the pretty lights to come and get me."-Homecoming 2005
"You can't pray away the gay."-Callie Torres on Grey's Anatomy.
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Some of the recent editions had started to get quite tiresome and not nearly as funny as older ones. They kept some numbers in the show far too long. "Beauty's Been Decreased" for instance, was there well after the show had closed, much less downsized.
Hey best12bars, I might have run into you during those early days at Palsson's when my friends and I would go see FB and there were very small houses with people who didn't seem to understand the references. I remember one night a waiter came to our table (we were the only ones laughing consistently all night) and said, "Thank you for getting the jokes." Any chance that might have been you?
A young actress with Noel coward after a dreadful opening night performance said to him 'Well, i knew my lines backwards this morning!''
Noels fast reply was ''Yes dear, and thats exactly how you said them tonight'!'
I have a broken ankle and a broken heart. Forbidden Broadway is the funniest show ever created. If anyone out there is a fan of me or my site please go and buy tickets. There is no Broadway like Forbidden Broadway. I am writing this in a hospital bed but if I could be there I would.
PLEASE SAVE MY FAVORITE SHOW OF ALL TIME. PLEASE!
If you can run, go and buy tickets. It is the funniest show ever created and you would be doing me a giant favor.
The most recent edition I've seen was the Rude Awakening. I thought it was funny, but not great. I think maybe some time off may be just what the show needs.
That said, nothing can demerit their amazing run and the many terrific cast albums they've put out in the past.
Hey white guy (you don't accept PMs)... when did you see it? I'm trying to figure out if the Sunday spoof is still in it so it's worth seeing ASAP. Thanks!
Though I've always felt it was strictly for the theatre insiders and hard-core fans. It was never main-stream enough for the once-in-a-while theatre attendee to grasp.
"It's the little things; the details, that distinguish the Barbra Streisands from the Rosalyn Kinds."~Gilmore Girls~