Forbidden Broadway: Rude Awakening
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 show was conceived, created and written by Alessandrini 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:- It's D'sgusting
- Forbidden Broadway: Rude Awakening
- Medley: Marry Poppins: Chim Chim Cher-ee/Supercalifragilisticexpialadocious
- Curtains For Curtains
- Medley: Company: Company/Being Alive
- Grey Gardens
- Medley: Jersey Goys: Sherry/Walk Like a Man/Big Girls Don't Cry
- The Be-Littled Mermaid
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Medley: Light In the Piazza: Statues & Stories/Say It Somehow/Tonight
- The Impossible Song
- Medley: Doubt: Who's Afraid Of the Big Bad Wolf/Shout