Forbidden Broadway: Rude Awakening

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.

Forbidden Broadway
Cast album cover
MusicVarious
LyricsGerard Alessandrini
BookGerard Alessandrini
BasisBroadway musicals
Productions2007 Off-Broadway

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

  • Jared Bradshaw
  • Janet Dickinson
  • James Donegan
  • Valerie Fagan
  • Steve Saari, piano

Replacements and 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]

  1. It's D'sgusting (It's D'Lovely)
  2. Forbidden Broadway: Rude Awakening
  3. Medley: Marry Poppins: Chim Chim Cher-ee/Supercalifragilisticexpialadocious
  4. Curtains For Curtains (Show People)
  5. Medley: Company: Company/Being Alive
  6. Grey Gardens (The Revolutionary Costume For Today)
  7. Medley: Jersey Goys: Sherry/Walk Like a Man/Big Girls Don't Cry
  8. The Be-Littled Mermaid (Part Of Your World)
  9. Medley: Spamalot: Camelot/The Song That Goes Like This
  10. Medley: Even More Miserables: C'est Magnifique/Master Of the House/On My Own
  11. Medley: A Chorus Line: God, I Hope I Get It/One
  12. You Can't Stop the Camp (You Can't Stop the Beat)
  13. Medley: Wicked & the Flying Monkeys: Defying Gravity/Don't Monkey With Broadway
  14. Medley: Spring Awakening: Mack the Knife/Mama Who Bore Me/Totally F***ed
  15. Finale (What I Did For Love)
  16. Medley: Yoko Ono On Broadway: Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin'/Oklahoma!/Imagine
  17. 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
  18. Chicago-Give 'Em the Old Star Replacement (Razzle Dazzle)
  19. Medley: Light In the Piazza: Statues & Stories/Say It Somehow/Tonight
  20. The Impossible Song (The Impossible Dream)
  21. Medley: Doubt: Who's Afraid Of the Big Bad Wolf/Shout

See also

References

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