It's hard to believe that 25 years have passed since Gerard Alessandrini first started skewering the sacred cows of the Great White Way with Forbidden Broadway. But here it is, a quarter of a century later, and of course there is still plenty to lampoon.The latest production, subtitled Rude Awakening, takes aim at such current theatrical fare as Grey Gardens, Hairspray, Mary Poppins, Wicked and even the just-opened The Little Mermaid (I can just see it: Ariel duct taped to a skateboard).
And now even those of us outside of New York can get a taste of this Forbidden fruit, with the newest original cast recording coming out January 22, now available for pre-orderfrom Amazon.com. As it is not yet listed there, see the comments section below for the full track list, including six bonus tracks.
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Track listing for "Forbidden Broadway: Rude Awakening":
"It's D'Sgusting" ("It's D'Lovely")
"Forbidden Broadway: Rude Awakening"
"Mary Poppins" ("Chim Chim Cher-ee"/"Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious")
"Curtains for Curtains" ("Slow People")
"Company" ("Company"/"Being Alive")
"Grey Gardens" ("The Revolutionary Costume for Today")
"Jersey Goys" ("Sherry"/"Walk Like a Man"/"Big Girls Don't Cry")
"The Be-Littled Mermaid" ("Part of Your World")
"Spamalot" ("Camelot"/"The Song That Goes Like That")
"Even More Miserables" ("C'est Magnifique"/"Master of the House"/"On My Own" ("On the Phone")
"A Chorus Line" ("God, I Hope I Get It"/"One")
"You Can't Stop the Camp" ("You Can't Stop The Beat")
"Wicked & The Flying Monkeys" ("Defying Gravity"/"Don't Monkey With Broadway")
"Spring Awakening"* ("Mack The Knife"/"Mama Who Bore Me"/"Totally Fu***ed")
"Finale" ("What I Did For Love")
Bonus Tracks
"Yoko Ono on Broadway" ("Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin'"/"Oklahoma!"/"Imagine")
"Sour Charity" ("Hey Big Spender"/"If You 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")
"Light in the Piazza"* ("Statues & Stories"/"Say It Somehow"/"Tonight")
"The Impossible Song" ("The Impossible Dream")
"Doubt"* ("Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf"/"Shout")
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