best forbidden broadway skits?

[fritz33]

Posted: 6/16/06 at 5:49pm

forbidden broadway never stops makin me laugh. just wondered if it did the same for you!? some of my favorite skits make fun of titanic, les mis, and cats.. but also.. WICKED!


funniest skit ever!.. if you haven't heard it, hear it now!

LYRICS: (during defying gravity) so hoist me up in a harness
and point me to the sky

in all the big shows lately, all the leading ladies have to fly!

[best12bars]

Posted: 6/16/06 at 5:52pm

One of the "oldies" that had me laughing really hard (back in the day) was "Screamgirls" with their Jennifer Holliday being pulled back off the set on a freight dolly at the end.

[rosekwbp]

Posted: 6/16/06 at 5:55pm

I've unfortunately never seen but love listening to the Bernadette Peters Rose's Turn skit.

[Color and Light]

Posted: 6/16/06 at 5:56pm

I love the whole Patti Lupone in MASTER CLASS with Glenn Close, Andrew Lloyd Webber, and Madonna, personally. "Into the Words" also has a special place in my heart.

[bjh2114]

Posted: 6/16/06 at 6:00pm

"LYRICS: (during defying gravity) so hoist me up in a harness
and point me to the sky

in all the big shows lately, all the leading ladies have to fly! "

It's actually: So strap me in a harness, and hoist me up to the sky...

My favorite skits EVER are Light in the Piazza and Yoko Ono/Lennon.

[SMiller]

Posted: 6/16/06 at 6:02pm

I love "Into The Words" spoof of duh "Into The Woods"

SMiller

[Fiction Writer]

Posted: 6/16/06 at 6:31pm

The Annie one makes me laugh.

[JohnBoy2]

Posted: 6/16/06 at 6:34pm

I really like the older stuff, like SCREAMGIRLS and JUST YOU WAIT, JULIE ANDREWS, among others.

[Fiction Writer]

Posted: 6/16/06 at 6:35pm

"Give 'em the old spread the fingers. Wear a bowler hat. Wiggle your pants like ants are in your thighs."

Hilarious.

[hushpuppy]

Posted: 6/16/06 at 6:41pm

I always loved the Merman/Martin parody but my all time favorite was Carol Channing ('Some people sing, some people dance, some people act, I do HELLO, DOLLY!')

[ILoveMyDictionary]

Posted: 6/16/06 at 8:24pm

"Give 'em the old spread the fingers. Wear a bowler hat. Wiggle your pants like ants are in your thighs."

ahaha I love that one. Then later on in that song "Right hand red, left foot green. Now dance."

[cpnchicago]

Posted: 6/16/06 at 8:47pm

Les Mis:

"At the end of the play, you're another day older. Sitting flat on your butt for three hours or more."

[Johnnytoc]

Posted: 6/16/06 at 8:55pm

What's their LitP parody?

[WickedGeek28]

Posted: 6/16/06 at 9:04pm

Too hard of a question!

[singingshowgirl]

Posted: 6/16/06 at 9:08pm

Les Miz!!!!!!

"what a bore! you're in for 10 years more!"

"once a piece of art, now a piece of crap. all new york needs, another tourist trap."

"they can't wait to get back home and to read the libretto in bed, to figure out whatever went on and what we said. better read your synopsis at the end of the play!"

is there any main place that has the lyrics of all these forbiden bway stuff??? it's sooo funny!

[morosco]

Posted: 6/16/06 at 9:11pm

Grim Hotel

[catstagestud]

Posted: 6/16/06 at 9:47pm

I love the Lion King parody.

"How am I gonna get a ticket to de Lion King?! African balongna but we won a lot of Tonys! High-falootin' puppet show...(something undistinguishable) Pinnochio!"

Cheers,

Christopher

[ChrisLK]

Posted: 6/16/06 at 10:06pm

Into the Words is one of my favorites of course, and so is ChitaRita. But my absolute favorites are the Mandy Pantinkin sketches. Those are uproariously funny. Mandy and Berndette in Kiss Me Kate is brilliant:

"We'll haunt you, and hurt you... Your date will desert you!"

[picturetaker9211]

Posted: 6/16/06 at 10:27pm

I've never seen it but I've heard the Rent songs & one Wicked song. I love the song Wicked.Whoever was protraying Idina & Kristin did a great job, vocally. I never thought the Rent songs were THAT funny. But they get a chuckle out of me.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 6/16/06 at 10:31pm

Somebody's missing from this thread. Hmmmm.

[Corine2]

Posted: 6/16/06 at 10:59pm

My favorite-
Cover up your mucus of the night.
Or Chita/Rita.
Or the Harvey Hairspray number or the Doubt number. Or the Piazza number. Or the YOKO ONO NUMBER.
I live for Gerard Alessandrini but I actually wrote a very funny number that might make Gerard laugh.
Someday he will see it.

I wish.
I dream in FB.

Jennifer Simard played CHENOWETH- Don't DEFY JENOWETH.
Updated On: 6/18/06 at 10:59 PM

[alterego]

Posted: 6/16/06 at 11:58pm

I've not seen the most recent editions but I've always liked - LES MIS, PHANTOM/MERMAN, SARAH BRIGHTMAN and ANN MILLER (I'm Still Weird).

catstagestud - the lyrics you couldn't decipher (LION KING) are 'Kukla, Fran and Ollie oh' (they were TV puppets from the 1950's).

[Corine2]

Posted: 6/17/06 at 12:08am

I love you honey, I love you.
Ego darling, you need to see the newest versions.
But, with the one and only SIMARD.
I would give anything if she was in FB.
LOVE HER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

DON'T YOU DARE DEFY JENOWETH.......
NO NO NO NO!!!
Hell, NO.
OMG!

[catstagestud]

Posted: 6/17/06 at 1:19am

Thanks alterego! I could never figure that out...Maybe I've got bad ears. Oh! And I love in the Aida parody when the women sings,
"It's cheesy! It's cheesy" with freaky hard-core articulation like the wonderfully talented Heather Headley. Oh! And in Ragtime when Father asks "Why is that black man playing our piano?" "He's got an audition for Smokey Joe's Cafe." :-P It's not all that great but I found it pretty amusing.

Cheers,

Christopher

[TheActr97J]

Posted: 6/17/06 at 1:54am

The Ragtime one was brilliant... "Sarah please marry me, Sarah please comb your hair!"

I was cracking up when I saw the Light in the Piazza parody. Bloody brilliant!