A sure sign that Broadway is in post-COVID recovery mode is its willingness to make fun of itself. So the year-end arrival of the latest edition of Forbidden Broadway --- the 40-plus-year-old commercial theater spoofathon --- is both bracingly entertaining and a heartening indicator of health for The Great White Way. With a too-short three-day stay at the Kravis Center’s … [Read more...]
Deft ‘Spamilton’ parody also a love letter to theater
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...]
‘Spamilton’ takes loving dig at Miranda and his musical
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...]