This was meant to be the final installment of the Forbidden Broadway series, and the entire review is built around Gerard Alessandrini’s grand statement that Broadway is supposedly no longer worthy of being insulted by him (this is nothing new, by … [Continue reading]
Fun Home
There are many things about modern Broadway that no-one would have in a million years expected even as recently as the end of the last decade. For example, who would have thought that Andrew Lloyd Webber would be back on top after twenty years of … [Continue reading]
Wicked
This was the long-run hit of the decade, a show that has run continuously with no sign of stopping and seems likely to become an old-guard classic of the future. Because of this widespread appeal, and because it seems to appeal especially to … [Continue reading]
Holiday Inn (Stage Version)
When it was announced that they were mounting a Broadway musical based on the classic Bing Crosby-Fred Astaire movie vehicle, everyone but me seemed pretty optimistic. This is presumably because everyone else had forgotten about the mediocre and … [Continue reading]
Forbidden Broadway: Rude Awakening
Forbidden Broadway had been going downhill for a while at this point, due to Gerard Alessandrini’s waning creativity and increasingly mean-spirited, hateful attitude toward his subjects. But this is the point where Alessandrini stopped even trying to … [Continue reading]
Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson
This was yet one more odd off-Broadway transfer, this time with perhaps the weirdest one-sentence description up to that point—Andrew Jackson as an Emo rock star. No-one really took much notice of this show, except as a minor theatrical curiosity, … [Continue reading]
Beauty and the Beast
Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, probably the most classic of all animated musicals and later adapted into a smash-hit, long-running Broadway musical, seems to have attracted two kinds of fans…the animation fans, who universally prefer the original … [Continue reading]
The Little Mermaid
I feel kind of bad for this show, actually. It seemed to have so much potential: the original film, so often dismissed as kiddie fare in comparison with the rest of the Disney Renaissance, is a brilliant metaphor for adolescence and coming of age. … [Continue reading]
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