Forbidden Broadway, Vol. 9: Rude Awakening [The Un-Original Cast Album] [Cast Recording]

Gerard Alessandrini (Composer), Valerie Fagan (Performer), James Donegan (Performer), Janet Dickinson (Performer), Jared Bradshaw (Performer), Jeanne Montano (Performer), Megan Lewis (Performer), Michael West (Performer), Gina Kreizmar (Performer), William Selby (Performer) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Performer: Valerie Fagan, James Donegan, Janet Dickinson, Jared Bradshaw, Jeanne Montano, et al.
• Composer: Gerard Alessandrini
• Audio CD (January 22, 2008)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Cast Recording
• Label: Drg
• ASIN: B000ZOVQ5E
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #76,169 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #93 in Music > Miscellaneous > Comedy > Comedic Music > General

Track Listings

1. It's D'Sgusting (It's D'Lovely)

2. Forbidden Broadway: Rude Awakening

3. Mary Poppins (Chim Chim Cher-ee / Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious)

4. Curtains for Curtains (Slow People)

5. Comany (Company / Being Alive)

6. Grey Gardens (The Revolutionary Costume For Today)

7. Jersey Goys (Sherry / Walk Like A Man / Big Girls Don't Cry)

8. The Be-Littled Mermaid (Part of Your World)

9. Spamalot (Camelot / The Song That Goes Like This)

10. Even More Miserables (C'est Magnifique / Master of the House / On My Ow

11. A Chorus Line (God, I Hope I Get It / One)

12. You Can't Stop The Camp (You Can't Stop The Beat)

13. Wicked & The Flying Monkeys (Defying Gravity / Don't Monkey With Broadw

14. Spring Awakening (Mack The Knife / Mama Who Bore Me / Totally F***ed)

15. Finale (What I Did For Love)

16. Yoko Ono On Broadway (Oh, What A Beautiful Mornin' / Oklahoma! / Imagin

17. Sour Charity (Hey Big Spender / If You Could See Me Now / There's Gotta

18. Chicago - Give 'Em The Old Star Replacement (Razzle Dazzle) [*]

19. Light In The Piazza (Statues & Stories / Say It Somehow / Tonight) [*]

20. The Impossible Song (The Impossible Dream) [*]

See all 21 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

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12 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars A Real Dud!, March 28, 2008

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Gerald M. Reeves (El Cajon, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Forbidden Broadway, Vol. 9: Rude Awakening [The Un-Original Cast Album] (Audio CD)

I am a long-time "Forbidden Broadway" fan and have seen most of the productions. I loved them one and almost all. This one I don't love. Instead of being funny, I found it to be nasty, mean-spirited and lacking in the love for musical theater that the others so successfully spoofed. Its humor is hard, heavy handed and, at times, mindless. I have listened to this CD five times and am ready to use it as a frisbee or toss it in the trash. It is not worth keeping in my collection. "Forbiddy Broadway Strikes Back" is by far the best, the funniest and the most clever of the "Forbidden Broadway" collection. This chapter in no way approaches the amazing talent level of the other editions. Maybe its there was so little material to spoof. I don't know. I wanted it to be funny. It was not...at least to me.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Forbidden Broadway Just Keeps Getting Better, October 18, 2008

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J. Love - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Forbidden Broadway, Vol. 9: Rude Awakening [The Un-Original Cast Album] (Audio CD)

As always the Forbidden Broadway cast, authors, and lyricists just keep getting better and better. Once again they have hit all the right notes in their parodies. If you have other versions this one fits right in. Broadway parodies at their best.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Very Funny, even if you have not seen all the plays, March 21, 2008

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Lester Anderson (Verona, NJ USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Forbidden Broadway, Vol. 9: Rude Awakening [The Un-Original Cast Album] (Audio CD)

This is a very creative, well done, and very funny satire. I have seen most of the plays/musicals that are spoofed, but you don't need to have seen them in order to find this CD very funny. I admit I am a fan of all the Forbidden Broadway CDs in the series, and this one proves they get better and better. And if you buy the CD, don't think it replaces going to the play on Broadway if you are in NY. The play adds some visual humor, and it is on a constant update depending on what is playing on Broadway, so at the theater you will hear some new material.