Forbidden Broadway: Roast of Utopia Review

So these were the numbers (an asterisk means it's a new sketch):

Act 1
*June is Busting Out All Over (lyrics reflect the status of Broadway post-Tonys)
*Forbidden Broadway opening (lyrics slightly changed from before)
Glossy Fosse
*Mary Poppins (playoff on Supercali)
Gotta Get A Puppet
Beauty's Been Decreased
Spamalot segment
*Curtains (David Hyde Pierce doing "Slow People")
*Company (Both the opening and Raul doing "Being Intense")
*Grey Gardens (Ebersole doing "The Evolution of the Musical Today")
*You Can't Stop the Camp (Hairspray stage and movie, plus Legally Blonde)
Les Mis (At the End of the Play, Bring it Down, 10 Years More, etc.)

Act 2
Lion King
Jersey Boys (Scary, Walk Like a Man Sing Like a Girl, etc.)
Drowsy (Bob and Beth "As I Stumble Along")
Wicked ("Defying Chenoweth/Subtlety")
*Don't Monkey Around with Old Broadway
Mamma Mia
Phanton vs. Merman
*Lovemusik (Donna singing about Germans in LoveMusik vs. Spring Awakening)
*Spring Awakening (an actual skit of about 5 minutes into "The Bleep of Living")
*Chorus Line/Finale ("What I Did for Laughs")

The highlights were Company (one of the funniest skits in the past few years), Curtains, and Spring Awakening. I was talking to one of the actors afterwards and he said they are still changing stuff and have some tightening to do. Wait a few weeks and then go see this show! It is well worth it.

I'm surprised they didn't do anything for The Pirate Queen. But I guess there was no making fun of to do that the show didn't unabashedly and unconsciously do to itself.

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Cute. Were the Putnam County one still in I'm sure it would have been how someone would spell "Flop," too.

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Cute. Were the Putnam County one still in I'm sure it would have been how someone would spell "Flop," too.

It isn't a flop...

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Tap, he meant if the Spelling Bee skit were still in where they ask "Please spell 'Pirate Queen'". Then Barfee comes out on stage and goes "F-L-O-P!" "That is correct" "I know!" They had Pirate Queen in that spot when the old version closed, but they took that little skit out.

^Ah, I assumed it was still "Lestat" or had maybe been changed to "The Times..." or "High Fidelity."

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So question, how many of the preformed parodys are recorded? Do you have to see the show ad nauseum to see them all? Or do a good percentage get recorded.

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"*Chorus Line/Finale ("What I Did for Laughs")"

Are you serious??? I wrote a Nathan Lane parody song to "What I Did For Love" with the exact same title! Sh!t....

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I would go just to see the Les Miz sketch as that is my favorite Forbidden Broadway piece of all time!

"The Evolution of a Musical Today?" Does that involve how long it takes for a show to get on? I'd love to hear more about that skit.

Who's doing "Glossy Fosse" at this point? I've seen it with both Brooke Shields and Melanie Griffith.

I went a second time last night. You need to see the Ebersole number. It is brilliant. SA and Company are also hysterical.
The only negative is the Beauty and the Beast number. It needs to be killed instead of decreased, oy.(I have seen that number 40 plus times)

Updated On: 6/20/07 at 05:25 PM

Thanks for the review! I was thinking of going to see this next week, most likely on Thursday night. Can anyone tell me if it's better to order tickets in advance, or are they usually available at the box office the day of? What about TKTS? Thanks!

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