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Forbidden Broadway Goes to Rehab
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Product Description
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Genre: Popular Music
Media Format: Compact Disk
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Release Date: 13-JAN-2009
Track Listing
- Forbidden Broadway Goes to Rehab
- All That Chat
- In the Heights Segment
- Tale of Two Cities Segment
- South Pacific Segment
- Mary Poppins -- 2nd Season
- August: Osage County
- Daniel Radcliffe in Equus
- Patti LuPone in Gypsy
- Young Frankenstein
- Xanadude
- Kristen Chenoweth: Glitter & Be Glib
- Sondheim: Putting Up Revivals
- Stephen Sondheim Finale
- My Musical Comedy Smile [*]
- Pajama Game [*]
- See Me on a Monday [*]
- (Dying Is Easy) Comedy Is Hard [*]
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #8769 in Music
- Brand: Unknown
- Released on: 2009-01-13
- Number of discs: 1
- Format: Cast Recording
- Dimensions: .19 pounds
Customer Reviews
One of the Best
As usual, I savored the humor, the music and the performances. I particularly enjoyed the Mary Poppins, the Equus and the Young Frankenstein, but my favorite is "My Musical Comedy Smile." The adroid lyrics are a pleasure.
Likeable, but not great
I have about four or five previously published Forbidden Broadway albums. I like the fun and wit they convey; and on first hearing I found myself anticipating each oncoming track of this edition. But once the CD was finished, I had no desire to hear it again. Why? Because it was just like hearing a rehash of earlier outings. The singers are very talented, and the production values are just fine; but overall I felt I was listening to an "also-ran" production rather than to a masterpiece.
Alessandrini does it again
The Forbidden Broadway CDs are among the jewels of my collection (I'm missing one, but that's about to be rectified), and this latest one is a worthy addition. Gerard Alessandrini, the mastermind behind the long-running show, has proved himself the best song parodist in America, and his show is the stage equivalent of Mad Magazine in its heyday. The ever-changing performers, too, are gifted mimics, as good at lampooning the performers as Alessandrini is at spoofing the songs. Of course, it helps to get the jokes if you're familiar with the Broadway shows under discussion, but the CDs are funny even if you've never seen the plays.
