Forbidden Broadway is finally making it to Broadway. The latest iteration of the long-running parody series--Forbidden Broadway on Broadway: Merrily We Stole a Song will begin previews at the Hayes Theater on July 29 with an opening set for Aug. 15. The limited engagement will play through Nov. 1. The five-person cast (including an onstage pianist) will be announced at a later date. There will also be special weekly guest stars appearing throughout the run.
The cast of the London edition of
Forbidden Broadway.
Credit: Alistair Muir
The first edition of Forbidden Broadway opened in 1982 at Palsson's Supper Club and ran for 2,332 performances. Various editions have played over 200 US cities as well as in London, Tokyo, Singapore, and Sydney. Titles of the Off-Broadway versions include Forbidden Broadway Strikes Back, FB Goes to Rehab, FB 2001: A Spoof Odyssey, FB: Special Victims Unit, and FB: The Next Generation.
Forbidden Broadway Comes Out Swinging
(2014)
The show’s creator and director Gerard Alessandrini said, “I’d never have believed that Forbidden Broadway would end up on the street that we love - and love to lampoon.” For his work on the various versions of Forbidden Broadway, Alessandrini has won a Tony Honor for Excellence in the Theater, an Obie Award and two Drama Desk Awards for his lyrics. The show has won the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Revue three times.
Forbidden Broadway on Broadway: Merrily We Stole a Song will be created around the current and recent seasons of Broadway and will include spoofs of the new and upcoming Broadway musicals and plays like The Great Gatsby, The Notebook, Water for Elephants, Hell’s Kitchen and Back to the Future, as well as current and recent Sondheim revivals like Sweeney Todd, Into the Woods, Company and Merrily We Roll Along.
Spring 2024
March 2--Illinoise (Park Ave. Armory)
March 7--Doubt: A Parable (Roundabout/Todd Haimes)
March 7--Tuesdays with Morrie (Sea Dog Theater)
March 10--Dead Outlaw (Audible/Minetta Lane)
March 11--Corruption (LCT/Mitzi Newhouse)
March 12--Teeth (Playwrights Horizons)
March 13--The Effect (The Shed/Griffin Theater)
March 14--The Notebook (Schoenfeld)
March 14--Ibsen's Ghost (Primary Stages/59E59)
March 18--An Enemy of the People (Circle in the Square)
March 21--Water for Elephants (Imperial)
March 24--Philadelphia, Here I Come (IRT)
March 28--The Who's Tommy (Nederlander)
April 1--Brynolf & Ljung in Stalker (New World Stages)
April 1--Bistro Awards (Gotham Comedy Club)
April 2--Orlando (previews begin; opening TBA) (Signature Theatre)
April 2--Fish (Keen Co./Working Theater/Theater Four)
April 4--Lortel Award nominees announced
April 5--Macbeth (an undoing) (TFANA/Polonsky Center)
April 11--The Outsiders (Jacobs)
April 11--Jordans (Public) (previews begin; opening TBA)
April 12--Staff Meal (previews begin; opening TBA) (Playwrights Horizons)
April 14--Lempicka (Longacre)
April 15--MAC Awards (Peter Norton Symphony Space)
April 16--Sally & Tom (Public Theater)
April 17--The Wiz (Marquis)
April 18--Suffs (Music Box)
April 19--Stereophonic (Golden)
April 20--Hell's Kitchen (Shubert)
April 20/21--Cabaret (August Wilson)
April 22--The Heart of Rock and Roll (James Earl Jones)
April 22--Patriots (Barrymore)
April 22--Outer Critics Circle nominations announced
April 22--Drama League nominations announced (NY Library for the Performing Arts)
April 23--Mary Jane (MTC/Friedman)
April 24--Uncle Vanya (LCT/Vivian Beaumont)
April 25--Mother Play (Second Stage/Hayes)
April 25--The Great Gatsby (Broadway)
April 26--Chita Rivera Award nominations announced
April 29--Drama Desk Award nominations announced
April 30--Tony Nominations Announced
April 30--Three Houses (previews begin; opening TBA) (Signature Theatre)
May 2--Wine in the Wilderness (previews begin; opening TBA) (CSC)
May 5--Lortel Awards (NYU Skirball)
May 13--Here There Are Blueberries (NYTW)
May 13--Outer Critics Circle winners announced
May 17--Drama League Awards (Ziegfeld Ballroom)
May 20--Chita Rivera Awards Ceremony (NYU Skirball)
May 23--Outer Critics Circle Awards ceremony
New Plays:
The Cottage
Grey House
I Need That
Jaja's African Hair Braiding
Mother Play
Prayer for the French Republic
The Shark Is Broken
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