Forbidden Broadway is an off-Broadway show created and written by Gerard Alessandrini and directed by Alessandrini and long-time collaborator Phillip George. It opened on January 15, 1982 at Palsson's Supper Club in New York City. The current incarnation, Forbidden Broadway: Special Victims Unit[1], is playing at the 47th Street Theatre. This article is about the street in New York City. ... January 15 is the 15th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1982 is a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Midtown Manhattan, looking north from the Empire State Building, 2005 New York City (officially named the City of New York) is the most populous city in the United States, and is at the center of international finance, politics, entertainment, and culture. ...

The show is a musical that spoofs the show tunes of current Broadway musicals, often commenting on the apparent deterioration of Broadway and how nothing is what it used to be on the Great White Way. Forbidden Broadway has mocked megahits like Les Miserables, Annie Get Your Gun, Hairspray, The Lion King, The Music Man, Miss Saigon, and Rent. They also target famous Broadway actors, writers, composers, directors, and producers, including Carol Channing, Ann Miller, Ethel Merman, Mary Martin, Barbra Streisand, Mandy Patinkin, Patti LuPone, Stephen Sondheim, and Elton John. In contemporary usage, parody is a form of satire that imitates another work of art in order to ridicule it. ... Les Misérables programme from Palace Theatre purchased for £3 in July 2003. ... Annie Get Your Gun is a stage musical loosely based on the life of sharpshooter Annie Oakley. ... This article is about Hairspray, the musical that started performances on Broadway in 2002. ... The Lion King is the 32nd film in the Disney animated feature canon, and it also was the highest-grossing traditionally animated feature film ever released in the United States. ... The Music Man is a musical play written by Meredith Willson and Franklin Lacey, which premiered on Broadway in 1957 famously starring Robert Preston as Professor Harold Hill (in his musical debut) and revived in 1976 with Ian Richardson. ... Miss Saigon is a musical by Claude-Michel Schönberg and Alain Boublil. ... David Nederlander Theatre during the run of Rent. ... Carol Channing photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1956 Carol Channing (born January 31, 1921 in Seattle, Washington) is a United States actress whose career was built largely on two roles, Lorelei Lee in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes and Dolly Gallagher Levi in Hello Dolly!. She is easily recognized by her distinctive... Ann Miller was born 12 April 1923 and died 22 January 2004. ... Ethel Merman (January 16, 1908 - February 15, 1984) was a star of stage and film musicals, well known for her strident voice and comic acting. ... Mary Martin photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1949 Mary Martin born (December 1, 1913 – November 3, 1990) in Weatherford, Texas was an American star of (mainly stage) musicals. ... Barbra Streisand - The Movie Albumcover. ... Mandy Patinkin Mandel Bruce Patinkin (born November 30, 1952 in Chicago, Illinois), is an American actor and renowned tenor. ... Patti LuPone (born April 21, 1949 in Northport, New York) is an American singer and actress. ... Stephen Sondheim Stephen Joshua Sondheim (born March 22, 1930) is an American musical theater lyricist and composer. ... Elton John Sir Elton Hercules John, CBE (born March 25, 1947) is a highly successful British pop singer, pianist, and songwriter. ...

Forbidden Broadway is a four-person show, with two men and two women. Aside from a two-decade-long run, Forbidden Broadway has released eight albums, as well as one entitled Forbidden Hollywood, a soundtrack of the show of the same title by Alessandrini. Like Forbidden Broadway, Forbidden Hollywood is all about parodies, except it targets movies rather than musicals.

Albums of Forbidden Broadway and Forbidden Hollywood

• Forbidden Broadway, Vol. 1 (released 1984)
• Forbidden Broadway, Vol. 2 (released 1991)
• Forbidden Broadway, Vol. 3 (released 1994)
• Forbidden Hollywood (released 1995)
• Forbidden Broadway Strikes Back (released 1996)
• Forbidden Broadway Cleans Up Its Act (released 1999)
• Forbidden Broadway: 20th Anniversary Edition (released 2000)
• Forbidden Broadway 2001: A Spoof Odyssey (released 2001)
• Forbidden Broadway: Special Victims Unit (released 2005)