Released 2008 First performance 2 October 2007 | Genre Comedy, parody | |
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Similar Gerard Alessandrini plays, Parody plays, Other plays | ||
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.
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Rude Awakening opened on October 2, 2007 at New York's 47th Street Theatre and closed on March 24, 2008. 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, A Chorus Line, Les Misérables, The Little Mermaid, Grey Gardens, Chicago, Spring Awakening, Jersey Boys, Spamalot and Mary Poppins.
Opening Night Cast
Replacements/Understudies
Album
The tracks featured on the cast recording are:
- 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
Songs
1It's D'sgusting
2Forbidden Broadway: Rude Awakening
3Mary Poppins