Forbidden Broadway: Rude Awakening
Forbdden Broadway: Rude Awakening | |
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Studio album by Various | |
Released | 2008 |
Genre | Comedy, parody |
Forbidden Broadway: Rude Awakening is the 2007 incarnation of Gerard Alessandrini's long-running hit Off Broadway musical revue Forbidden Broadway, which parodies notable current Broadway and Off Broadway musicals.
Currently playing at New York's 47th Street Theatre, Rude Awakening opened on October 2, 2007. The Forbidden Broadway series recently entered its twenty-fifth year running Off Broadway.[1] The show was conceived, created and written by Alessandrini[2] and is currently co-directed by Alessandrini and Phillip George.
The musicals parodied in Rude Awakening include Wicked, A Chorus Line, Les Misérables, The Little Mermaid, Grey Gardens, Chicago, Spring Awakening, Jersey Boys, Spamalot and Mary Poppins.
Opening Night Cast
- Jared Bradshaw
- Janet Dickinson
- James Donegan
- Valerie Fagan
- Steve Saari, piano
Replacements/Understudies
- Michael West, replaced James Donegan
- Megan Lewis, replaced Janet Dickinson
- William Selby, dance captain/male understudy
- Gina Kreizemar, female understudy
Album
The tracks featured on the cast recording are:[3]
- It's D'sgusting (It's D'Lovely)
- Forbidden Broadway: Rude Awakening
- Medley: Marry Poppins: Chim Chim Cher-ee/Supercalifragilisticexpialadocious
- Curtains For Curtains (Show People)
- Medley: Company: Company/Being Alive
- Grey Gardens (The Revolutionary Costume For Today)
- Medley: Jersey Goys: Sherry/Walk Like a Man/Big Girls Don't Cry
- The Be-Littled Mermaid (Part Of Your World)
- Medley: Spamalot: Camelot/The Song That Goes Like This
- Medley: Even More Miserables: C'est Magnifique/Master Of the House/On My Own
- Medley: A Chorus Line: God, I Hope I Get It/One
- You Can't Stop the Camp (You Can't Stop the Beat)
- Medley: Wicked & the Flying Monkeys: Defying Gravity/Don't Monkey With Broadway
- Medley: Spring Awakening: Mack the Knife/Mama Who Bore Me/Totally F***ed
- Finale (What I Did For Love)
- Medley: Yoko Ono On Broadway: Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin'/Oklahoma!/Imagine
- Medley: Sour Charity: Hey Big Spender/If They Could See Me Now/There's Gotta Be Something Better Than This/I'm a Brass Band
- Chicago-Give 'Em the Old Star Replacement (Razzle Dazzle)
- Medley: Light In the Piazza: Statues & Stories/Say It Somehow/Tonight
- The Impossible Song (The Impossible Dream)
- Medley: Doubt: Who's Afraid Of the Big Bad Wolf/Shout
See also
- Forbidden Broadway
- Forbidden Broadway, Vol. 1
- Forbidden Broadway, Vol. 2
- Forbidden Broadway, Vol. 3
- Forbidden Hollywood
- Forbidden Broadway Strikes Back
- Forbidden Broadway Cleans Up Its Act
- Forbidden Broadway: 20th Anniversary Edition
- Forbidden Broadway 2001: A Spoof Odyssey
- Forbidden Broadway: Special Victims Unit
- Forbidden Broadway Goes to Rehab
References
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