About the Show

After a five-year absence, an all-new edition of Gerard Alessandrini’s musical spoof of all things theatre returns to New York,

From the show:

It’s been five long years since Forbidden Broadway last graced the New York stage. But Tony Award-winning parodist Gerard Alessandrini is back, with a HILARIOUS, ALL NEW, UP-TO-THE-MINUTE EDITION - Forbidden Broadway: The Next Generation!

The new show comically and musically eviscerates Hadestown, Moulin Rouge, Tootsie, Beetlejuice, the very dark Oklahoma, The Ferryman, the Yiddish Fiddler on the Roof, The Cher Show, Dear Evan Hansen, What the Constitution Means to Me, and the new generation of Broadway stars including Ben Platt, Santino Fontana, Billy Porter, Alex Brightman and exciting returns by Bette Midler, Andre de Shields, Bernadette Peters, Karen Olivo, Lin-Manuel Miranda, and many surprises. Don’t miss it-- Five years is a long time to wait!

Critic Reviews (16)

"Gerard Alessandrini's 'FORBIDDEN BROADWAY: THE NEXT GENERATION' Moves To The York"
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"Still finding furiously funny ways to burlesque, spoof, parody, and otherwise make digestible mincemeat of the American musical theatre…'Forbidden Broadway…' ranges on the humor scale from smiles to chuckles to laughs to guffaws. Its humor may be cutting, but why else would it be forbidden?"
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For a previous production

CRITICS’ PICK "'Forbidden Broadway' Sticks It to the Great Woke Way: Gerard Alessandrini’s franchise was looking as long in the tooth as the shows it aimed to skewer. A new edition brings it back to hilarious life."
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For a previous production

3/5 stars "There may be more smiles than all-out laughs, but there are at least enough guffaws to make you spit out your two-drink minimum."
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For a previous production

"Armed with new material, a fabulous cast and a fresh coat of greasepaint, his 'Forbidden Broadway the Next Generation' mercilessly and hysterically takes on the sacred cows on the Great and sometimes not so great White Way."
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For a previous production

"The Next Generation Boldly Goes Where Few Critics Have Gone Before: Gerard Alessandrini's comedy revue returns for the next class of theater-makers."
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For a previous production

"Gerard Alessandrini's 'FORBIDDEN BROADWAY: THE NEXT GENERATION' Aims Satirical Darts At Broadway's Freshest Targets"
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For a previous production

"I think of Gerard Alessandrini as a kind of superhero: In a show business world gone mad, you can always count on 'Forbidden Broadway,' his long-running satirical revue, to rise up, phoenix-like, ready to smack down the poseurs and pretenders who would appropriate the Broadway stage for their own nefarious purposes."
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Trailer

Creative team

The York Theatre Company

Producer

Gerard Alessandrini

Writer / Director