Forbidden Broadway: Rude Awakening Explained
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.
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]
- It's D'sgusting (It's D'Lovely)
- Forbidden Broadway: Rude Awakening
- Medley: Marry Poppins: Chim Chim Cher-ee/Supercalifragilisticexpialadocious
- Curtains For Curtains (Show People)
- Medley: Company: Company/Being Alive
- Grey Gardens (The Revolutionary Costume For Today)
- Medley: Jersey Goys: Sherry/Walk Like a Man/Big Girls Don't Cry
- The Be-Littled Mermaid (Part Of Your World)
- Medley: Spamalot: Camelot/The Song That Goes Like This
- Medley: Even More Miserables: C'est Magnifique/Master Of the House/On My Own
- Medley: A Chorus Line: God, I Hope I Get It/One
- You Can't Stop the Camp (You Can't Stop the Beat)
- Medley: Wicked & the Flying Monkeys: Defying Gravity/Don't Monkey With Broadway
- Medley: Spring Awakening: Mack the Knife/Mama Who Bore Me/Totally F***ed
- Finale (What I Did For Love)
- Medley: Yoko Ono On Broadway: Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin'/Oklahoma!/Imagine
- 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
- Chicago-Give 'Em the Old Star Replacement (Razzle Dazzle)
- Medley: Light In the Piazza: Statues & Stories/Say It Somehow/Tonight
- The Impossible Song (The Impossible Dream)
- Medley: Doubt: Who's Afraid Of the Big Bad Wolf/Shout
See also
External links
Notes and References
- Web site: Forbidden Broadway: Rude Awakening - DRGRecords.com . 2007-11-18 . 2007-12-13 . https://web.archive.org/web/20071213015122/http://www.drgrecords.com/details.asp?PID=12632 . dead .
- http://www.forbiddenbroadway.com/ ForbiddenBroadway.com
- https://www.amazon.com/dp/samples/B000ZOVQ5E Forbidden Broadway: Rude Awakening cast album - Amazon.com
