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Forbidden Broadway to close January 15
#25re: Forbidden Broadway to close January 15
Posted: 9/12/08 at 1:48pm
It was even more inside in the early days...
Have you heard the latest news?
Harold Prince now is shining shoes.
Well, did you evah?
What a swell season it's been.
Frederick Loewe says Alan Jay
Cast his wife and divorced his play.
Well, did you evah?
What a swell season it's been.
#26re: Forbidden Broadway to close January 15
Posted: 9/12/08 at 2:14pmSo sad. Saw it on tour and own 6 of their CDs.
"I saw Pavarotti play Rodolfo on stage and with his girth I thought he was about to eat the whole table at the Cafe Momus." - Dollypop
#27re: Forbidden Broadway to close January 15
Posted: 9/12/08 at 2:59pmThat's such a shame. I saw "The Roast of Utopia" last year with my family & found it hilarious. Especially the "Company" spoof.
Parks
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/5/04
#28re: Forbidden Broadway to close January 15
Posted: 9/12/08 at 3:47pm
Is this show funny to people who aren't familiar with some of the shows? Obviously I have seen a few of the shows that are spoofed, but not all.
I'd love to see it before it closes, but should I see more shows they spoof prior to going to see the show?
"If it walks like a Parks, if it wobbles like a Parks, then it's definitely fat and nobody loves it." --MA
SueleenGay
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/9/03
#29re: Forbidden Broadway to close January 15
Posted: 9/12/08 at 4:04pm
How come this show never transferred? I mean it is not literally "forbidden" is it?
Besides with every show on Broadway spoofing Broadway, is there really still a need for FB?
PEACE.
Hank
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/16/03
#30re: Forbidden Broadway to close January 15
Posted: 9/12/08 at 5:46pm
So sorry to hear that! I really enjoyed "Rude Awakening". I thought it was for the most part one of their best ever, especially the spoof of Spring Awakening, and The Little Mermaid flipping around the stage was hysterical!
I saw it on a weeknight and the house looked virtually full, but there were a few times I was there years ago with about 50 other people, on discounts. They didn't rule out a come back, and I hope it happens in the not too distant future.
btw: Valerie Fagan, she's still got it!
Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#31re: Forbidden Broadway to close January 15
Posted: 9/12/08 at 6:37pm
I guess we will have to get tickets for this last edition.
It is sort of like an old friend moving away. It will be missed.
Poster Emeritus
Corine2
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/14/03
#32re: Forbidden Broadway to close January 15
Posted: 9/12/08 at 6:58pm
DON'T LET IT DIE. I REFUSE TO LET IT CLOSE.
THE SUN WILL COME OUT MANANA.
#33re: Forbidden Broadway to close January 15
Posted: 9/12/08 at 7:02pmAs I have stated before, this news is a real BUMMER!!
"All I ask of you is one thing: please don't be cynical. I hate cynicism -- it's my least favorite quality and it doesn't lead anywhere. Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. But if you work really hard and you're kind, amazing things will happen."
Conan O'Brien
#34re: Forbidden Broadway to close January 15
Posted: 9/12/08 at 9:06pm
I've seen it many times from the year it started. But I'll never forgive them for ruining Les Miserables for me.
Now whenever I see the real show and the turntable starts moving I get the giggles big time. And when the little one is on the shoulders all I can think of is that little dummy strapped onto shoulders flapping in the breeze.
Goodbye, old friend.
#35re: Forbidden Broadway to close January 15
Posted: 9/12/08 at 10:07pm"Once a piece of art, now a piece of crap"
"All I ask of you is one thing: please don't be cynical. I hate cynicism -- it's my least favorite quality and it doesn't lead anywhere. Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. But if you work really hard and you're kind, amazing things will happen."
Conan O'Brien
alterego
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/5/03
#36re: Forbidden Broadway to close January 15
Posted: 9/13/08 at 12:46amAs long as there are Broadway fans there will be a place for FORBIDDEN BROADWAY. Maybe in future they should look at doing a limited season. What is sad is that there is so little revue about nowdays and this closing makes for one less revue.
wickedrentq
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/6/04
#37re: Forbidden Broadway to close January 15
Posted: 9/13/08 at 10:41amWhat's the [title of show] skit? I saw FB a week ago and didn't see it.
"If there was a Mount Rushmore for Broadway scores, "West Side Story" would be front and center. It snaps, it crackles it pops! It surges with a roar, its energy and sheer life undiminished by the years" - NYPost reviewer Elisabeth Vincentelli
slimandslam
Broadway Star Joined: 9/26/05
#38re: Forbidden Broadway to close January 15
Posted: 9/13/08 at 6:52pm
I saw FB once at the very beginning, in the early '80s, and laughed my fool head off. More recently, I thought of it like I think of the Statue of Liberty: I'm glad it's there, but I never go to see it.
Except now it won't be there. I'm a little sad, but it just means that parody Broadway lyrics will once more become truly insider references, calling cards of a secret club, rather than trying to find an audience of their own.
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