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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. The Forbidden Broadway series recently entered its twenty-fifth year running Off Broadway.[1] The show was conceived, created and written by Alessandrini[2] 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

  • 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:[3]

  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

References

  1. ^ Forbidden Broadway: Rude Awakening - DRGRecords.com
  2. ^ ForbiddenBroadway.com
  3. ^ Forbidden Broadway: Rude Awakening cast album - Amazon.com
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