Forbidden Broadway, Vol. 1

Forbidden Broadway, known also as Forbidden Broadway, Volume 1, is the first album released by Gerard Alessandrini, the creator of Forbidden Broadway. Because the album features the five cast members from the original show, the album bears the label "Original Cast Recording."

The album, recorded June 28, 1984 at Time Capsules Studios in New York, spoofs Broadway's latest hits, including Amadeus, Evita, The Pirates of Penzance, and Annie and spoofs stars such as Carol Channing, Angela Lansbury, Ethel Merman, and Jerry Herman.

Cast

Tracks

The musical numbers on the album are listed here. The number's title is given, with the song it spoofs and the original composer listed in parentheses. All the "new" parody lyrics are by Gerard Alessandrini.

01 Forbidden Broadway (original, Alessandrini)

02 Amadeus ("Non più andrai", Mozart)

03 Don't Cry For Me ("Don't Cry For Me, Argentina", Webber-Rice)

04 Annie's Favorite Showtune ("Tomorrow", Straus-Charnin)

05 Pirates Of Penzance Sequence (Gilbert-Sullivan)

"I Am A Kevin Kline" ("I Am A Pirate King")

"Oh, there is not one maiden breast" ("Oh, is there not one maiden breast?")

"Poor Warbling Star" ("Poor wand'ring one")

06 Be A Catholic ("Be Italian", Yeston)

07 Triplets (Schwartz-Dietz)

08 Bankable Stars ("Beautiful Girls", Sondheim)

09 I'm Entertainment ("That's Entertainment", Schwartz-Dietz)

10 Angela Lansbury Sequence

Mame (Herman)

If The Show Had Run Past Labor Day ("If He Walked Into My Life", Herman)

11 Audition Sequence

Soliloquy from Carousel (excerpt, Rodgers-Hammerstein)

I'm Sick Of Playing Their Songs ("They're Playing Our Song", Hamlisch-Sager)

12 Merman and Martin Sequence

It's De-Merman ("It's De-Lovely", Porter)

I'm Larry Hagman's Mother ("My Heart Belongs To Daddy", Porter)

Mutual Aggravation Society ("Mutual Admiration Society", Dubey-Karr)

13 Carol Channing Sequence

Call On Carol ("Call On Dolly", Herman)

"Dolly Is A Girl's Best Friend" ("Diamonds Are A Girl's Best Friend", Styne-Robin)

Oh, No, Carol! ("Hello, Dolly!", Herman)

14 Ambition ("Tradition", Bock-Harnick)

"Climb Ev'ry Mountain" (excerpt, Rodgers-Hammerstein)

15 Forbidden Broadway (reprise, Alessandrini)

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gollark: For purposes only, you understand.
gollark: There are lots of *imaginable* and *claimed* gods, so I'm saying "gods".
gollark: So basically, the "god must exist because the universe is complex" thing ignores the fact that it... isn't really... and that gods would be pretty complex too, and does not answer any questions usefully because it just pushes off the question of why things exist to why *god* exists.
gollark: To randomly interject very late, I don't agree with your reasoning here. As far as physicists can tell, while pretty complex and hard for humans to understand, relative to some other things the universe runs on simple rules - you can probably describe the way it works in maybe a book's worth of material assuming quite a lot of mathematical background. Which is less than you might need for, say, a particularly complex modern computer system. You know what else is quite complex? Gods. They are generally portrayed as acting fairly similarly to humans (humans like modelling other things as basically-humans and writing human-centric stories), and even apart from that are clearly meant to be intelligent agents of some kind. Both of those are complicated - the human genome is something like 6GB, a good deal of which probably codes for brain things. As for other intelligent things, despite having tons of data once trained, modern machine learning things are admittedly not very complex to *describe*, but nobody knows what an architecture for general intelligence would look like.

See also

Sources
  • liner notes of album Forbidden Broadway
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