Forbidden Broadway: Rude Awakening
| Forbidden Broadway | |
|---|---|
 Cast album cover | |
| Music | Various |
| Lyrics | Gerard Alessandrini |
| Book | Gerard Alessandrini |
| Basis | Broadway musicals |
| Productions | 2007 Off-Broadway |
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.
Rude Awakening opened on October 2, 2007, at New York's 47th Street Theatre and closed on March 24, 2008.[1] The show was conceived, created and written by Alessandrini[2] and was 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
[edit]- Jared Bradshaw
- Janet Dickinson
- James Donegan
- Valerie Fagan
- Steve Saari, piano
Replacements and understudies
[edit]- Michael West, replaced James Donegan
- Megan Lewis, replaced Janet Dickinson
- William Selby, dance captain/male understudy
- Gina Kreizemar, female understudy
Album
[edit]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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- ^ "Forbidden Broadway: Rude Awakening - DRGRecords.com". Archived from the original on 2007-12-13. Retrieved 2007-11-18.
- ^ ForbiddenBroadway.com
- ^ Forbidden Broadway: Rude Awakening cast album - Amazon.com
