Forbidden Broadway Cleans Up Its Act!: The Unoriginal Cast Recording, Volume 5 (1998 New York Cast) [Cast Recording]

Gerard Alessandrini, Bryan Batt, Lori Hammel, Matthew Ward, Forbidden Broadway (Related Recordings) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (March 23, 1999)
• Original Release Date: March 23, 1999
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Cast Recording
• Label: Drg
• ASIN: B00000I9DA
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #66,999 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. A Jolly Holiday With Rudy - Edward Staudenmayer/Bryan Batt/Lori Hammel

2. Forbidden Broadway Cleans Up Its Act! - Entire Cast

3. Chicago-Glossy Fosse - Edward Staudenmayer/Lori Hammel/Bryan Batt

4. Footloose-Too Cute - Edward Staudenmayer/Lori Hammel/Bryan Batt

5. The Beauty Queen Of Leenane - Lori Hammel/Kristine Zbornik

6. The Line King Segment: The Circle Of Mice/Julie Taymor & Her Puppets/Can You Feel The Pain Tonight? - Edward Staudenmayer/Lori Hammel/Bryan Batt/Kristine Zbornik

7. Andrew Lloyd Superstar - Bryan Batt

8. Titanic-The Musical: In Every Season/Ship Of Air/I Must Get Off This Ship... - Edward Staudenmayer/Lori Hammel/Bryan Batt/Kristine Zbornik

9. More Miserable-Ten Years More - Edward Staudenmayer/Lori Hammel/Bryan Batt/Kristine Zbornik

10. Bernadette Peters In Annie Get Your Gun - Lori Hammel

11. Swan Lake - Bryan Batt/Edward Stauenmayer

12. Ann Miller-I'm Still Weird - Kristine Zbornik

13. Jekyll & Hyde - Edward Staudenmayer/Bryan Batt/Kristine Zbornik

14. Ragtime Segment - Edward Staudenmayer/Lori Hammel/Bryan Batt/Kristine Zbornik

15. Super-Frantic-Hyper-Active-Self-Indulgent-Mandy - Bryan Batt

16. Cabaret Segment - Edward Staudenmayer/Lori Zbornik

17. The Sound Of Music In Cabaret - Edward Staudenmayer/Lori Hammel/Bryan Batt/Kristine Zbornik

18. Finale-Find Mary Martin - Edward Staudenmayer/Lori Hammel/Bryan Batt/Kristine Zbornik

19. Forbidden Broadway Cleans Up It's Act!-Encore - Edward Staudenmayer/Lori Hammel/Bryan Batt/Kristine Zbornik/Matthew Ward...

20. Bonus Track 1 -Epilogue - Edward Staudenmayer/Lori Hammel/Bryan Batt/Kristine Zbornik/Matthew Ward...

Customer Reviews

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Recording, September 19, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Forbidden Broadway Cleans Up Its Act!: The Unoriginal Cast Recording, Volume 5 (1998 New York Cast) (Audio CD)

This CD is incredible. By far, it is one of my favorites. One thing I recomend before buying it is make sure you know at least half of the stuff they make fun of or the cd will be no fun. Especially the one for Mandy Patinkin and Titanic. Some of my favorite shows they make fun of are Cabaret, The lion king, Titanic (they also include stuff from the movie in this song), Mandy Patinkin (hilarious if you have heard him before) and Les Miserables. My favortie singer on the soundtrack is Lori Hammel. The only thing that wasn't very good was her impression of Bernadette Peters. No one can immitate her. Other than that this CD is wonderfull.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great for any musicals fan, April 24, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Forbidden Broadway Cleans Up Its Act!: The Unoriginal Cast Recording, Volume 5 (1998 New York Cast) (Audio CD)

Listen to this CD straight through. Almost all the songs are simply hilarious. Especially funny are the Ragtime, Lion King, and Cabaret segments. The best one yet. The lyrics from the show were even nominated for a Drama Desk award!

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Intelligent satire for a change, March 28, 1999

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F. Behrens "Frank Behrens" (Keene, NH USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Forbidden Broadway Cleans Up Its Act!: The Unoriginal Cast Recording, Volume 5 (1998 New York Cast) (Audio CD)

I have not heard the first four albums and I have seen Forbidden Broadway only once. Back then and again in hearing this album, I was impressed with the intelligence of most of the satire. Perhaps one might think "bad taste" when a star is satirized for being too old. But one does not have to read John Simon to agree that too much of what is stressed on modern Broadway stages has nothing to do with good music or decent lyrics. We get bread and circuses, or as this FB says we get glitter where there used to be substance. I only wish I could see what these singers are supposed to be be doing (a few more illustrations would help). But the satire is dead on target and it almost never reaches the inspidity thatMonty Python did at their most uninspired. Of course all the Forbidden Broadways in the world will not cure what is wrong with the American musical today; but heaven help us if they stop trying!