Forbidden Broadway, Vol. 3 - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

Forbidden Broadway, Volume 3 is the third album released to accompany Gerard Alessandrini's

Gerard Alessandrini

Gerard Alessandrini is an American playwright, parodist, actor and theatre director best known for creating the award-winning off-Broadway musical theatre parody revue Forbidden Broadway...

off-Broadway

Off-Broadway

Off-Broadway theater is a term for a professional venue in New York City with a seating capacity between 100 and 499, and for a specific production of a play, musical or revue that appears in such a venue, and which adheres to related trade union and other contracts...

show Forbidden Broadway

Forbidden Broadway

Forbidden Broadway is an Off-Broadway satirical revue conceived, written and directed by Gerard Alessandrini. The original version of the revue opened on January 15, 1982 at Palsson's Supper Club in New York City and ran for 2,332 performances. Alessandrini has rewritten the show over a dozen...

, which spoofs Broadway's latest musicals. Volume 3 was recorded in November 1993 and released in 1994, recorded at DRG Records, Inc. in New York.

The album follows the tradition of pointing fingers at Broadway's latest. But according to Alessandrini in the liner notes, the album almost didn't make the cut. After twelve years, he was ready to quit, but new shows came along and practically offered themselves to parodies. He also mentions that FB has expanded to spoof the less successful musicals (assuming, of course, that a lot of people have heard of them). All the "new" lyrics are (as always) by Gerard Alesandrini.

Volume 3 spoofs shows like Miss Saigon

Miss Saigon

Miss Saigon is a musical by Claude-Michel Schönberg and Alain Boublil, with lyrics by Boublil and Richard Maltby, Jr.. It is based on Giacomo Puccini's opera Madame Butterfly, and similarly tells the tragic tale of a doomed romance involving an Asian woman abandoned by her American lover...

, Grand Hotel

Grand Hotel (musical)

Grand Hotel is a musical with a book by Luther Davis and music and lyrics by Robert Wright and George Forrest, with additional lyrics and music by Maury Yeston....

, Blood Brothers, and Kiss of the Spider Woman

Kiss of the Spider Woman (musical)

Kiss of the Spider Woman is a musical with music by John Kander and Fred Ebb, with the book by Terrence McNally. It is based on the Manuel Puig novel El Beso de la Mujer Araña...

and stars like Ethel Merman

Ethel Merman

Ethel Merman was an American actress and singer. Known primarily for her powerful voice and roles in musical theatre, she has been called "the undisputed First Lady of the musical comedy stage." Among the many standards introduced by Merman in Broadway musicals are "I Got Rhythm", "Everything's...

, Michael Crawford

Michael Crawford

Michael Crawford OBE is an English actor and singer. He has garnered great critical acclaim and won numerous awards during his career, which covers radio, television, film, and stagework on both London's West End and on Broadway in New York City...

, Carol Channing

Carol Channing

Carol Elaine Channing is an American singer, actress, and comedienne. She is the recipient of three Tony Awards , a Golden Globe and an Oscar nomination...

, Robert Goulet

Robert Goulet

Robert Gerard Goulet was a Canadian American entertainer as a singer and actor. He played the role of Lancelot in the Broadway musical Camelot of 1960.-Early life:...

, and Dustin Hoffman

Dustin Hoffman

Dustin Lee Hoffman is an American actor with a career in film, television, and theatre since 1960. He has been known for his versatile portrayals of antiheroes and vulnerable characters....

.

This album, like Volume 2, bears the label "Unoriginal Cast Recording", since it does not feature the original five performers (although Nora Mae Lyng of the original cast is featured on it).

Cast

Gerard Alessandrini
Gerard Alessandrini
Gerard Alessandrini is an American playwright, parodist, actor and theatre director best known for creating the award-winning off-Broadway musical theatre parody revue Forbidden Broadway...
Susanne Blakeslee
Carol Channing
Carol Channing
Carol Elaine Channing is an American singer, actress, and comedienne. She is the recipient of three Tony Awards , a Golden Globe and an Oscar nomination...
Brad Ellis
Brad Ellis
Brad Ellis is an American composer, musical director, orchestrator and jazz pianist. Ellis is perhaps most visible as the quiet teacher/piano accompanist for the high school kids on Glee, the Fox television show for which he is part of creator Ryan Murphy's musical production team.Ellis had a long...
John Freedson
Dorothy Atcheson
Ashish Bhattacherjee
Gina Kreiezmar
Herndon Lackey
Roxie Lucas
Nora Mae Lyng
Brad Oscar
Brad Oscar
Brad Oscar is an American musical theatre actor known for his Broadway performances in musicals such as The Producers and Jekyll and Hyde. The former garnered him a Tony Award nomination.-Career:...
Marilyn Pasekoff
Christine Pedi
Christine Pedi
Christine Pedi is a television and theatre actress. She is also a cabaret performer and radio personality and younger cousin of the late Tom Pedi.-Theatre:BroadwayShe has appeared in three Broadway-theatre productions in New York City, New York....
Stephen Potfora
Barbara Welsh
Craig Wells

Tracks

The numbers on the album are as following, with the number's name, original song and original composer listed.

01 Carol Channing Sequence

Imitation Is The Sincerest Form Of Flattery (original, Alessandrini)

02 Forbidden Broadway Volume 3 (original, Alessandrini)

03 Trouble In New York City ("Ya Got Trouble

Ya Got Trouble

"Ya Got Trouble" is a song by Meredith Willson from the 1957 Broadway musical The Music Man, and its 1962 filmed version The Music Man. It is one of the most popular and recognizable songs in the musical, and Robert Preston's performance in the film is admired...

", Wilson)

04 Guys And Dolls Sequence

Guys And Dolls (Loesser)

I Know I've Seen This Show Before ("I've Never Been In Love Before", Loesser)

A Bushel On My Neck ("A Bushel And A Peck", Loesser)

Chew It ("Sue Me", Loesser)

05 Topol

If I Sing It Slower ("If I Were A Rich Man", Bock-Harnick)

06 Anna Karenini: The Musical

On The Ashkebad, Tbusi And Kiev Express ("On The Atcheson, Topeka And The Santa Fe", Warren-Mercer)

07 Julie Andrews

I Couldn't Hit That Note ("I Could've Danced All Night", Lerner-Lowe)

08 Grim Hotel

Grim Hotel ("Grand Hotel", Yeston)

I Can't Learn This Song Quite So Quickly ("Love Can't Happen Quite So Quickly", Yeston)

Follies Bergere (Yeston)

09 Barbara: The Broadway Album

Someday ("Somewhere", Berstein-Sondheim)

10 Dustin Hoffman

Dear Antonio ("Mrs. Robinson", Simon-Garfunkel)

The Sounds Of Shakespeare ("The Sounds Of Silence", Simon-Garfunkel)

11 Return To Merman And Martin

Everything's Coming Up Merman ("Everything's Coming Up Roses", Styne-Sondheim)

Old Fashioned Ballad ("Old Fashioned Wedding", Berlin)

There's Nobody In Show Business ("There's No Business Like Show Business", Berlin)

12 Ms. Saigon

Tonight Who Will Play Miss Saigon? ("Tonight I Will Be Miss Saigon", Boubil-Schönberg)

You Are Hallmark, I Postcard ("You Are Sun, I Moon", Boubil-Schönberg)

13 Michael Crawford Sequence

Put On Your Phony Voice ("Put On Your Sunday Clothes", Herman)

All I Ask Of You (original, Alessandrini-Ellis)

14 Robert Goulet Sequence

Camelounge ("Camelot", Lerner-Loewe)

15 Mess Of The Spider Woman

Come And See Me ("Prologue", Kander-Ebb)

Mess Of The Spider Woman ("Kiss Of The Spider Woman", Kander-Ebb)

Queer One ("Dear One", Kander-Ebb)

You're A Star ("Where You Are", Kander-Ebb)

16 Back To Barbara

Back To Broadway ("On A Clear Day", Lerner-Loewe)

17 Mug Brothers

Tell Me It's Not True (Russell)

Marilyn Monroe (Russell)

I Think I'm Acting ("I Think I Love You", Romeo)

Downshow ("Downtown", Hatch)

18 The Who's Tommy

Scenery, Fly Me, Amplify Me ("See Me, Heal Me, Touch Me, Feel Me", Townshend)

Listening To Us ("Listening To You", Townshend)

19 Finale

What Happened To Heart? ("You've Got To Have Heart", Adler-Ross)

Cast

Tracks

See also