Forbidden Broadway: Rude Awakening is the 2007 incarnation of 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...

's long-running hit Off Broadway musical revue 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 parodies notable current Broadway

Broadway theatre

Broadway theatre, commonly called simply Broadway, refers to theatrical performances presented in one of the 40 professional theatres with 500 or more seats located in the Theatre District centered along Broadway, and in Lincoln Center, in Manhattan in New York City...

 and Off Broadway musicals

Musical theatre

Musical theatre is a form of theatre combining songs, spoken dialogue, acting, and dance. The emotional content of the piece – humor, pathos, love, anger – as well as the story itself, is communicated through the words, music, movement and technical aspects of the entertainment as an...

.

Currently playing at New York

New York City

New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...

's 47th Street Theatre, Rude Awakening opened on October 2, 2007. The Forbidden Broadway series recently entered its twenty-fifth year running Off Broadway. The show was conceived, created and written by Alessandrini and is currently co-directed by Alessandrini and Phillip George.

The musicals parodied in Rude Awakening include Wicked

Wicked (musical)

Wicked is a musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz and a book by Winnie Holzman. It is based on the Gregory Maguire novel Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West , a parallel novel of the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz and L. Frank Baum's classic story The Wonderful Wizard...

, A Chorus Line

A Chorus Line

A Chorus Line is a 1975 musical about Broadway dancers auditioning for spots on a chorus line. The book was authored by James Kirkwood, Jr. and Nicholas Dante, lyrics were written by Edward Kleban, and music was composed by Marvin Hamlisch....

, Les Misérables

Les Misérables (musical)

Les Misérables , colloquially known as Les Mis or Les Miz , is a musical by Claude-Michel Schönberg, based on the novel of the same name by Victor Hugo....

, The Little Mermaid

The Little Mermaid (musical)

The Little Mermaid is a stage musical produced by Disney Theatrical, based on the animated 1989 Disney film of the same name and the classic story of The Little Mermaid by Hans Christian Andersen...

, Grey Gardens

Grey Gardens (musical)

Grey Gardens is an American musical with book by Doug Wright, music by Scott Frankel, and lyrics by Michael Korie, based on the 1975 documentary of the same title about the lives of Edith Ewing Bouvier Beale and her daughter Edith Bouvier Beale by Albert and David Maysles. The Beales were...

, Chicago

Chicago (musical)

Chicago is a musical set in Prohibition-era Chicago. The music is by John Kander with lyrics by Fred Ebb and a book by Ebb and Bob Fosse. The story is a satire on corruption in the administration of criminal justice and the concept of the "celebrity criminal"...

, Spring Awakening, Jersey Boys

Jersey Boys

Jersey Boys is a jukebox musical with music by Bob Gaudio, lyrics by Bob Crewe and book by Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice. It is a documentary-style musical, based on one of the most successful 1960s rock 'n roll groups, the Four Seasons...

, Spamalot

Spamalot

Monty Python's Spamalot is a musical comedy "lovingly ripped off from" the 1975 film Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Like the film, it is a highly irreverent parody of the Arthurian Legend, but it differs from the film in many ways, especially in its parodies of Broadway theatre...

and Mary Poppins

Mary Poppins (musical)

Mary Poppins is a Walt Disney Theatrical musical based on the similarly titled series of children's books by P. L. Travers and the Disney 1964 film. The West End production opened in December 2004 and received two Olivier Awards, one for Best Actress in a Musical and the other for Best Theatre...

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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:

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

• 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...
  
  
• Forbidden Broadway, Vol. 1
  Forbidden Broadway, Vol. 1
  Forbidden Broadway, known also as Forbidden Broadway, Volume 1, is the first album released by Gerard Alessandrini, the creator of Forbidden Broadway...
  
  
• Forbidden Broadway, Vol. 2
  Forbidden Broadway, Vol. 2
  Forbidden Broadway, Volume 2 is the second album released for Forbidden Broadway , an off-Broadway musical that spoofs Broadway's latest musicals. The album was recorded and mixed in February 1991 in New York at Sear Sound....
  
  
• Forbidden Broadway, Vol. 3
  Forbidden Broadway, Vol. 3
  Forbidden Broadway, Volume 3 is the third album released to accompany Gerard Alessandrini's off-Broadway show Forbidden Broadway, 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...
  
  
• Forbidden Hollywood
  Forbidden Hollywood
  Forbidden Hollywood is the parody show taped live in Hollywood created by Gerard Alessandrini, who also created the ever-popular Forbidden Broadway. But instead of spoofing Broadway, FH spoofed popular films Forbidden Hollywood is the parody show taped live in Hollywood created by Gerard...
  
  
• Forbidden Broadway Strikes Back
  Forbidden Broadway Strikes Back
  Forbidden Broadway Strikes Back! is a version of Forbidden Broadway created by Gerard Alessandrini. It Previewed Thursday September 5, 1996 and Opened at the Triad Theater Wednesday October 16, 1996. It later moved to the basement of Ellen's Stardust Diner and, as is the show's tradition, spoofed...
  
  
• Forbidden Broadway Cleans Up Its Act
  Forbidden Broadway Cleans Up Its Act
  Forbidden Broadway Cleans Up Its Act is the fifth incarnation of Gerard Alessandrini's Forbidden Broadway, his popular off-Broadway musical revue spoofing "the best of Broadway". All the parody lyrics were written by Gerard Alessandrini. This version was co-directed by Mr. Alessandrini and his...
  
  
• Forbidden Broadway: 20th Anniversary Edition
  Forbidden Broadway: 20th Anniversary Edition
  Forbidden Broadway: 20th Anniversary Edition is the sixth volume in the Forbidden Broadway Cast Albums. Although there isn't a show with the same title, the CD has twenty-five of Forbidden Broadway's best songs, including eight previously unreleased tracks...
  
  
• Forbidden Broadway 2001: A Spoof Odyssey
  Forbidden Broadway 2001: A Spoof Odyssey
  Forbidden Broadway 2001: A Spoof Odyssey is the 21st century's first incarnation of the Off-Broadway revue Forbidden Broadway. It was conceived, created and written by Gerard Alessandrini and satirizes Broadway's latest shows and stars. Phillip George co-directed with Alessandrini, with Catherine...
  
  
• Forbidden Broadway: Special Victims Unit
  Forbidden Broadway: Special Victims Unit
  Forbidden Broadway: Special Victims Unit is the ninth incarnation of Gerard Alessandrini's musical revue...
  
  
• Forbidden Broadway Goes to Rehab
  Forbidden Broadway Goes to Rehab
  Forbidden Broadway Goes to Rehab is the final incarnation of Gerard Alessandrini's long-running hit Off-Broadway musical revue Forbidden Broadway, which parodies notable current Broadway and Off Broadway musicals. The revue ran in 2008.-Production:...