For nearly 40 years, Gerard Alessandrini has been poking fun at the shows and stars of the musical theater in his Forbidden Broadway revues. Along the way he came to realize that the more successful the show, the more satirical he could be. So not only was it inevitable that he would get around to lampooning that hip-hop megahit, Hamilton, the hottest ticket in a … [Read more...]

The more successful a show is, the more it deserves to be spoofed. That is the philosophy of Gerard Alessandrini, the creator and writer of Forbidden Broadway, which has been poking the commercial theater in the ribs for nearly 40 years. And with Hamilton, arguably the most successful musical in a generation, he decided it deserved an entire evening’s parody — which he … [Read more...]