Favorite Forbidden Broadway Parody

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Favorite Forbidden Broadway Parody

Posted: 6/26/07 at 12:29pm

The "Roast of Utopia" review thread got me thinking. What is your favorite FB parody of all time?

My vote goes to "Chita-Rita."

#2

re: Favorite Forbidden Broadway Parody

Posted: 6/26/07 at 12:32pm

Ohhh the Patti ones are great but if I had to choose 1 it'd be anytime Liza comes out. ESP Liza One Note.

#3

re: Favorite Forbidden Broadway Parody

Posted: 6/26/07 at 12:44pm

As old as it is, my favorite still has to be the Les Mis one...the turntable gag itself is worth the ticket price.

#4

re: Favorite Forbidden Broadway Parody

Posted: 6/26/07 at 12:53pm

Tough one...I'd have to go with Defying Chenowith.

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#5

re: Favorite Forbidden Broadway Parody

Posted: 6/26/07 at 12:56pm

"Time I Said Goodbye" - the Sarah Brightman imitation is perfect - every horrible sound.

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re: Favorite Forbidden Broadway Parody

Posted: 6/26/07 at 12:57pm

The one that stuck with me the most when I saw it was "Beauty's Been Decreased." I was dying.

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re: Favorite Forbidden Broadway Parody

Posted: 6/26/07 at 12:59pm

Just saw it last night, and the Company spoof "Unaccompanied" had me dying, as did "Totally Bleeped" from Spring Awakening.

As far as classics, I love Chita/Rita and Ouch, They're Tight

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#8

re: Favorite Forbidden Broadway Parody

Posted: 6/26/07 at 1:03pm

My two favorites:
Les Miserables (less miserable than other shows, this song's too high,...)

and

Beauty & the Beast (Be Depressed)

#9

re: Favorite Forbidden Broadway Parody

Posted: 6/26/07 at 1:17pm

nothing tops The Light In The Piazza skit, IMO

#10

re: Favorite Forbidden Broadway Parody

Posted: 6/26/07 at 1:18pm

Liza One-Note
Patti LuPone- I Get a Kick Out of Me (Some snort cocaine when they're low, I need no sniff cause I think what's the diff, I'm terriffic to see, Yes I get a kick out of me.)
Grim Hotel

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re: Favorite Forbidden Broadway Parody

Posted: 6/26/07 at 1:24pm

"Being LuPone"
"Trouble In New York City"
"Alan Cumming in Cabaret" - I actually like the Liza bit before it, too. "Do the words Third Reich mean anything to you? Because they do to me!"

Those are my top three favorites.

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re: Favorite Forbidden Broadway Parody

Posted: 6/26/07 at 1:25pm

Gagtime
Les Miserables
Into the Words
Chita-Rita
Patti LuPone - I Get a Kick Out of Me
Super-Frantic-Hyperactive-Self-Indulgent-Mandy
Jekyll & Hyde (for people who find Andrew Lloyd Webber's music too challenging!)

Lord...there are so many good numbers, how is a girl to chose??

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re: Favorite Forbidden Broadway Parody

Posted: 6/26/07 at 1:25pm

ooh i wanna add that the Gagtime skit is HILARIOUS too!

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re: Favorite Forbidden Broadway Parody

Posted: 6/26/07 at 1:29pm

I am in love with the Ann Miller "I'm Still Weird"...you can picture Ann's T-Rex arms flapping and her machine gun taps. Hey!

I also love "Being Lupone"... it is perfect. "Helloeverybodyhowareyoudoingtonight!!!"

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re: Favorite Forbidden Broadway Parody

Posted: 6/26/07 at 1:48pm

I loved the Piazza parody.

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re: Favorite Forbidden Broadway Parody

Posted: 6/26/07 at 1:51pm

i love all of the Les Mis parodies but the sarah brightman skit and Beauty's been decreased are my other favorites

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re: Favorite Forbidden Broadway Parody

Posted: 6/26/07 at 1:52pm

Chita-Rita is the best overall.

I liked the Les Miz skit where they sang: "Rich folks pay 20 bucks a shirt, that has a starving pauper on it".

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re: Favorite Forbidden Broadway Parody

Posted: 6/26/07 at 1:53pm

I am unworthy of your words
Stephen, darling.
I cannot sing your minor thirds.


Beyond classic, IMO.

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#19

re: Favorite Forbidden Broadway Parody

Posted: 6/26/07 at 1:59pm

Sing It Somwhow (Piazza). Also, the Lennon skit is hysterical.

#20

re: Favorite Forbidden Broadway Parody

Posted: 6/26/07 at 2:03pm

the fiddler on the roof one was hysterical!

#21

re: Favorite Forbidden Broadway Parody

Posted: 6/26/07 at 2:06pm

Chita-Rita
Piazza
Into the Words

I'm sure this will change once I go see 'Utopia'. I can't wait to see the Company and Spring Awakening parodies.

#22

re: Favorite Forbidden Broadway Parody

Posted: 6/26/07 at 2:08pm

I like the THOROUGHLY MODERN MILLIE one, myself.

"...and the sets are hideous"

and

"Everything today is totally shell-shocked (battered like a Bosnian)"

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#23

re: Favorite Forbidden Broadway Parody

Posted: 6/26/07 at 2:45pm

"I Strain in Vain to Train Madonna's Brain" (after Madge's hideously embarassing performance in SPEED THE PLOW)

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re: Favorite Forbidden Broadway Parody

Posted: 6/26/07 at 2:47pm

company and sa definitely

#25

re: Favorite Forbidden Broadway Parody

Posted: 6/26/07 at 2:53pm

WOW! Goth and I agree on something!!
"Rich folks pay 20 bucks a shirt, that has a starving pauper on it". Is one of my all time favs.

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