Forbidden Broadway has scarred me

#1

Forbidden Broadway has scarred me

Posted: 6/9/05 at 7:00pm

Every song that Alessandrini had made a parody of, I end up singing his lyrics along with the music. When my friend was letting me listen to her iPod, she picked 'Can You Feel The Love Tonight" and I sang the Forbidden Broadway lyrics.

Maybe this is just me?

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#2

re: Forbidden Broadway has scarred me

Posted: 6/9/05 at 7:04pm

the same thing has happened to me! hahaha, Now whenever I hear Wicked or Avenue Q, I sing the forbidden broadway svu lyrics. it's awful!

#3

re: Forbidden Broadway has scarred me

Posted: 6/9/05 at 7:05pm

Nah, I do that too. Especially with "Unworthy of Your Love..." I drift between that and the Forbidden Broadway version.

#4

re: Forbidden Broadway has scarred me

Posted: 6/9/05 at 7:06pm

Oh yeah... this happens to me all the time. When I'm randomly singing a show tune I'll accidentally sing a line from FB parody. I was singing Sweet Charity the other day and said "Fosse is mainstream at last!" instead of "Somebody loves me at last!"

#5

re: Forbidden Broadway has scarred me

Posted: 6/9/05 at 7:08pm

I've never been able to get the I'm Entertainment/Ann Miller song out of my head. "When I killed L.B. Mayer by hitting with my hair."

#6

re: Forbidden Broadway has scarred me

Posted: 6/9/05 at 8:36pm

Oh my gosh, what show is "Unworthy of your love" from? I have it in my head now but I can't think of what show it's from.

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#7

re: Forbidden Broadway has scarred me

Posted: 6/9/05 at 8:40pm

Unworthy of Your Love is from Assassins.

I was watching the RENT trailer and I couldn't get "Seasons of Hype" out of my head.

#8

re: Forbidden Broadway has scarred me

Posted: 6/9/05 at 9:21pm

Try having this happen to you while your performing... I was in a Broadway revue last year, and during a rehearsal for one of my songs "Oh What A Beautiful Morning", I started singing the Forbidden Broadway lyircs...

"Oh what a beautiful moron
Oh what a beautiful guy..."

Thank the lord it was only a rehearsal!

#9

re: Forbidden Broadway has scarred me

Posted: 6/9/05 at 9:52pm

That's hilarious! I'm doing "Oklahoma" right now.

#10

re: Forbidden Broadway has scarred me

Posted: 6/9/05 at 9:55pm

Ah!!!!!!! FB. The best earworm maker ever! My favs "Can You Feel the Pain Tonight" and "Ten Years More"

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#11

re: Forbidden Broadway has scarred me

Posted: 6/9/05 at 10:02pm

You're not the only one, I know the lyrics to the Music Man "Trouble" parody better than the actual lyrics

"And the only shows in the black are the shows they show on HBO, you wanna pay 50 bucks when you could have watched TV! Make you're blood boil, well I should say! Now friends lemme tell ya what I mean: Ya got 1,2,3,4,5,6 quality productions, but none of them are from this season, and not much coming up and that ends in "P" and that rymes with "D" and that stands for "DULL"!"

#12

re: Forbidden Broadway has scarred me

Posted: 6/9/05 at 10:05pm

every time i hear "I sort of hate to ask it" I want to say "but what's a rhyme for basket?" and i always want to sing Defying Chenoweth instead of Gravity lol

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#13

re: Forbidden Broadway has scarred me

Posted: 6/9/05 at 10:15pm

Yay! I not crazy after all. =D

I heart Gagtime.

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#14

re: Forbidden Broadway has scarred me

Posted: 6/9/05 at 10:18pm

Yup. It happens allllll the time.

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re: Forbidden Broadway has scarred me

Posted: 6/9/05 at 10:22pm

You see, the thing is for me I got into Forbidden Broadway way before I knew alot of the shows they were making fun of. I know way more FB parodies than I do actual shows. A lot of times now when I get a new cast recording I listen to it and go "Hey! Forbidden Broadway did a parody of this!" and then I can't get past it.

#16

re: Forbidden Broadway has scarred me

Posted: 6/10/05 at 12:48am

I do it.
I know most of the words to FB. Sometimes I will be watching a show and say the words to Fb.
Like Mamma Mia- What an awful show, bye bye theater is finally dying.
Now they have a new version to Mamma Mia.
I think there is three different versions.
I like the first.
I do it with Defying Chenoweth all the time. Defying Gravity comes on and I sing the FB WORDS.
Fellow New Yorkians. I would like to introduce to you, my beloved friend and glamourous co star- Idina Menzel.
I hope your happy. I hope your happy now.
GO INTO THE WORDS....

Updated On: 6/10/05 at 12:48 AM

#17

re: Forbidden Broadway has scarred me

Posted: 6/10/05 at 12:50am

I was watching clips of La Vie Boheme and Out Tonight and I couldn't stop thinking about "Ouch They're Tight" and "This Ain't Boheme". :-P Ahhh gotta love FB!

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#18

re: Forbidden Broadway has scarred me

Posted: 6/10/05 at 12:52am

I saw a production of Ragtime a few weeks ago and when Coalhouse was serenading Sarah I was starting to tear up. Just then, my wife turned to me and whispered/sang "Sarah, please comb your hair!!!" I was still in tears, but for totally different reasons.

#19

re: Forbidden Broadway has scarred me

Posted: 6/10/05 at 1:32am

I have actually forgotten all the lyrics to "Les Miz" because the Forbidden Broadway ones are so much wittier and more memorable--

Come watch us grovel in the dirt
Then buy a souvenir and don it
Rich folks pay twenty bucks a shirt
That has a starving pauper on it!

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#20

re: Forbidden Broadway has scarred me

Posted: 6/10/05 at 2:13am

I picked up Forbidden Broadway SVU on a whim -- I was almost crying. Since then, I've been on a rampage -- it's just too much.

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#21

re: Forbidden Broadway has scarred me

Posted: 6/10/05 at 2:27am

I Can't hear "Everything's Coming Up Roses" without expecting them to sing "For me and for Me!!!!"
I also don't remember "I Get a Kick Out of You" without singing "I get a Kick Out of Me"

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#22

re: Forbidden Broadway has scarred me

Posted: 6/10/05 at 7:00am

I can't listen to "I could have danced all night" without thinking "I couldn't hit the note, I couldn't hit the note until they dropped the key, Now that I'm 56 my vocal cords play tricks and when I push I pee..." :)

#23

re: Forbidden Broadway has scarred me

Posted: 6/10/05 at 7:37am

Now that I'm 66, my vocal cords play tricks and when i push I PEE.
I loved Donna English as Julie.
I could listen to her all night.
Even when she couldn't (hit the note)
Ha ha. Love that number!

#24

re: Forbidden Broadway has scarred me

Posted: 6/10/05 at 9:36am

This is obviously a common problem...but a good one!

#25

re: Forbidden Broadway has scarred me

Posted: 6/10/05 at 9:40am

I do it CONSTANTLY :) Especially with "Trouble." We also sang "You're Just In Love" as a group number in my singing class performance, and I was secretly singing "You don't need amplifyin' / You'll be loud as a lion / Be like me / Use your diap-HRAAAAA-gmmmmmm..."