Forbidden Hollywood
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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 (such as Forrest Gump
, Pulp Fiction
, The Wizard of Oz
, and Aladdin and the songs featured in them (or else other songs in order to comment on the film). It also spoofs stars like Tom Hanks
, Keanu Reeves
, Barbra Streisand
, Ann-Margret
, and Whoopi Goldberg
.
In addition to the show, Alessandrini released an album to accompany it in 1995. The album was released by Varèse Sarabande Records, Inc., was recorded live in Hollywood, and features the original cast members, many of whom also have starred in Forbidden Broadway. Gerard Alessandrini wrote the "new" parody lyrics, while Phillip George (Associate director & choreographer) helped out writing many of the sketches.
Brad Ellis
*
Jason Graae
*
Gerry McIntyre
Christine Pedi
*
01 Forrest Gump
Life Is Like A Box Of Chocolates ("Life Is Just A Bowl Of Cherries", Henderson-DeSylva-Brown)
02 Forbidden Hollywood (original, Alessandrini)
03 They Shouldn't Be In Pictures ("You Oughta Be In Pictures", Suesse-Heyman)
04 Aladdin
A Disney World ("A Whole New World", Menken-Ashman)
05 Dorothy And Toto
Somewhere Under The Rainbow ("Somewhere Over The Rainbow", Arlen-Harburg)
06 Doris Day
Darling Doris Day ("Que Sera, Sera", Livingston-Evans)
07 Dreamworks Triplets ("Triplets", Schwartz-Dietz)
08 Marlene Dietrich
Falling Apart Again ("Falling In Love Again (Can't Help It)", Hollander-Lerner)
09 Hits And Bombs Sequence
Hits And Bombs ("Guys And Dolls", Loesser)
Blurry Hues ("Bali H'ai", Rodgers-Hammerstein)
Marlon Brando: You'll Know ("I'll Know", Loesser)
Louis and Barbra: Shut Up, Barbra! ("Hello, Dolly!", Herman)
10 Waterworld
I'll Blow The Budget Of Waterworld ("I'll Build A Staircase To Paradise", Gershwin-Gershwin-DeSylva)
11 Oscar Sequence
12 Tom Hanks
Gump, The Magic Movie ("Puff, The Magic Dragon", Yarrow-Lipton)
13 Rosie Perez
Mama Yo Quiero (I Want My Momma) (Jararaca-Paiva-Stillman)
14 Pulp Fiction
Make 'Em Bleed ("Make 'Em Laugh", Brown-Freed)
15 Summer Movies ("Summer Nights", Jacobs)
16 O-Todd-Ao ("Oklahoma", Rodgers-Hammerstein)
17 Sharon Stone ("Rawhide", Tiamkin-Washington)
18 Mary Poppins
Stupidcarelessfictionalnonsensicalverboseness ("Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
", Sherman-Sherman)
19 Audrey Hepburn
Dub Me ("Show Me", Lerner-Lowe)
20 Bette Midler
Who's Gay In Hollywood ("Hooray for Hollywood", Whiting-Mercer)
21 Ann-Margret
Bye Bye Thirty ("Bye Bye Birdie", Strouse-Adams)
22 Liza Minnelli
Mein Film Career ("Mein Herr", Kander-Ebb)
23 Gene Kelly
My Singin' Is A Pain ("Singin' in the Rain", Brown-Freed)
24 Barbra Streisand
Most Men ("My Man (Mon Homme)", Yrain-Pollick)
25 Finale
As Time Drags By ("As Time Goes By", Hupfeld)
Casablanca Sequence (Hupfeld)
26 Bows (original, Alessandrini)
Parody
A parody , in current usage, is an imitative work created to mock, comment on, or trivialise an original work, its subject, author, style, or some other target, by means of humorous, satiric or ironic imitation...
show taped live in Hollywood
Hollywood, Los Angeles, California
Hollywood is a famous district in Los Angeles, California, United States situated west-northwest of downtown Los Angeles. Due to its fame and cultural identity as the historical center of movie studios and movie stars, the word Hollywood is often used as a metonym of American cinema...
created by 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...
, who also created the ever-popular 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...
. But instead of spoofing Broadway, FH spoofed popular films (such as Forrest Gump
Forrest Gump
Forrest Gump is a 1994 American epic comedy-drama romance film based on the 1986 novel of the same name by Winston Groom. The film was directed by Robert Zemeckis, starring Tom Hanks, Robin Wright and Gary Sinise...
, Pulp Fiction
Pulp Fiction (film)
Pulp Fiction is a 1994 American crime film directed by Quentin Tarantino, who co-wrote its screenplay with Roger Avary. The film is known for its rich, eclectic dialogue, ironic mix of humor and violence, nonlinear storyline, and host of cinematic allusions and pop culture references...
, The Wizard of Oz
The Wizard of Oz (1939 film)
The Wizard of Oz is a 1939 American musical fantasy film produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. It was directed primarily by Victor Fleming. Noel Langley, Florence Ryerson and Edgar Allan Woolf received credit for the screenplay, but there were uncredited contributions by others. The lyrics for the songs...
, and Aladdin and the songs featured in them (or else other songs in order to comment on the film). It also spoofs stars like Tom Hanks
Tom Hanks
Thomas Jeffrey "Tom" Hanks is an American actor, producer, writer, and director. Hanks worked in television and family-friendly comedies, gaining wide notice in 1988's Big, before achieving success as a dramatic actor in several notable roles, including Andrew Beckett in Philadelphia, the title...
, Keanu Reeves
Keanu Reeves
Keanu Charles Reeves is a Canadian actor. Reeves is perhaps best known for his roles in Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure, Speed, Point Break and the science fiction-action trilogy The Matrix...
, Barbra Streisand
Barbra Streisand
Barbra Joan Streisand is an American singer, actress, film producer and director. She has won two Academy Awards, eight Grammy Awards, four Emmy Awards, a Special Tony Award, an American Film Institute award, a Peabody Award, and is one of the few entertainers who have won an Oscar, Emmy, Grammy,...
, Ann-Margret
Ann-Margret
Ann-Margret Olsson is a Swedish-American actress, singer and dancer whose professional name is Ann-Margret. She became famous for her starring roles in Bye Bye Birdie, Viva Las Vegas, The Cincinnati Kid, Carnal Knowledge, and Tommy...
, and Whoopi Goldberg
Whoopi Goldberg
Whoopi Goldberg is an American comedian, actress, singer-songwriter, political activist, author and talk show host.Goldberg made her film debut in The Color Purple playing Celie, a mistreated black woman in the Deep South. She received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress and won...
.
In addition to the show, Alessandrini released an album to accompany it in 1995. The album was released by Varèse Sarabande Records, Inc., was recorded live in Hollywood, and features the original cast members, many of whom also have starred in Forbidden Broadway. Gerard Alessandrini wrote the "new" parody lyrics, while Phillip George (Associate director & choreographer) helped out writing many of the sketches.
Cast
Susanne Blakeslee*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...
*
Jason Graae
Jason Graae
Jason Graae is an American actor noted for his musical theater performances but with a varied career spanning Broadway, opera, television and film...
*
Gerry McIntyre
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....
*
- performed in previous Forbidden Broadway shows
Tracks
The numbers on the album are listed below, listing the numbers, the songs they spoof, and the original composers/lyricists.01 Forrest Gump
Life Is Like A Box Of Chocolates ("Life Is Just A Bowl Of Cherries", Henderson-DeSylva-Brown)
02 Forbidden Hollywood (original, Alessandrini)
03 They Shouldn't Be In Pictures ("You Oughta Be In Pictures", Suesse-Heyman)
04 Aladdin
A Disney World ("A Whole New World", Menken-Ashman)
05 Dorothy And Toto
Somewhere Under The Rainbow ("Somewhere Over The Rainbow", Arlen-Harburg)
06 Doris Day
Darling Doris Day ("Que Sera, Sera", Livingston-Evans)
07 Dreamworks Triplets ("Triplets", Schwartz-Dietz)
08 Marlene Dietrich
Falling Apart Again ("Falling In Love Again (Can't Help It)", Hollander-Lerner)
09 Hits And Bombs Sequence
Hits And Bombs ("Guys And Dolls", Loesser)
Blurry Hues ("Bali H'ai", Rodgers-Hammerstein)
Marlon Brando: You'll Know ("I'll Know", Loesser)
Louis and Barbra: Shut Up, Barbra! ("Hello, Dolly!", Herman)
10 Waterworld
I'll Blow The Budget Of Waterworld ("I'll Build A Staircase To Paradise", Gershwin-Gershwin-DeSylva)
11 Oscar Sequence
12 Tom Hanks
Gump, The Magic Movie ("Puff, The Magic Dragon", Yarrow-Lipton)
13 Rosie Perez
Mama Yo Quiero (I Want My Momma) (Jararaca-Paiva-Stillman)
14 Pulp Fiction
Make 'Em Bleed ("Make 'Em Laugh", Brown-Freed)
15 Summer Movies ("Summer Nights", Jacobs)
16 O-Todd-Ao ("Oklahoma", Rodgers-Hammerstein)
17 Sharon Stone ("Rawhide", Tiamkin-Washington)
18 Mary Poppins
Stupidcarelessfictionalnonsensicalverboseness ("Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious is an English word, with 34 letters, that was in the song with the same title in the 1964 Disney musical film Mary Poppins. The song was written by the Sherman Brothers, and sung by Julie Andrews and Dick Van Dyke...
", Sherman-Sherman)
19 Audrey Hepburn
Dub Me ("Show Me", Lerner-Lowe)
20 Bette Midler
Who's Gay In Hollywood ("Hooray for Hollywood", Whiting-Mercer)
21 Ann-Margret
Bye Bye Thirty ("Bye Bye Birdie", Strouse-Adams)
22 Liza Minnelli
Mein Film Career ("Mein Herr", Kander-Ebb)
23 Gene Kelly
My Singin' Is A Pain ("Singin' in the Rain", Brown-Freed)
24 Barbra Streisand
Most Men ("My Man (Mon Homme)", Yrain-Pollick)
25 Finale
As Time Drags By ("As Time Goes By", Hupfeld)
Casablanca Sequence (Hupfeld)
26 Bows (original, Alessandrini)
See also
- Forbidden BroadwayForbidden BroadwayForbidden 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. 1Forbidden Broadway, Vol. 1Forbidden Broadway, known also as Forbidden Broadway, Volume 1, is the first album released by Gerard Alessandrini, the creator of Forbidden Broadway...
- Forbidden Broadway, Vol. 2Forbidden Broadway, Vol. 2Forbidden 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. 3Forbidden Broadway, Vol. 3Forbidden 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 Broadway Strikes BackForbidden Broadway Strikes BackForbidden 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 ActForbidden Broadway Cleans Up Its ActForbidden 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 EditionForbidden Broadway: 20th Anniversary EditionForbidden 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 OdysseyForbidden Broadway 2001: A Spoof OdysseyForbidden 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 UnitForbidden Broadway: Special Victims UnitForbidden Broadway: Special Victims Unit is the ninth incarnation of Gerard Alessandrini's musical revue...
- Forbidden Broadway: Rude AwakeningForbidden Broadway: Rude AwakeningForbidden 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 Goes to RehabForbidden Broadway Goes to RehabForbidden 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:...