Forbidden Broadway
 

Has anyone seen Forbidden Broadway? Playbill Club has an offer for $20 or $32 from now until the end of the year. Great price - but just wondering if it's worth seeing time wise (since we only have time for a couple of shows). Would appreciate any input.

I've seen about five different editions of Forbidden Broadway over the years, the most current one just last Tuesday on one of those $20 specials. YES!! It is terribly funny. I was surprised how much of it was new. Of course it helps if you have a pretty good knowledge of the various shows, but it focuses on the major ones, present and past. Four extremely talented performers play it all.

Incidentally, Michael West, probably the most talented of the four performers, also does a one man show at the same theatre on Thursday nights, when Forbidden Broadway is closed. It's called ALMOST LIVE FROM THE BETTY FORD CLINIC. We got $15 tickets for that also from Playbill Club. It was hysterically funny and very good. He plays everyone from Liza Minelli to Sammy Davis Junior to Ella Fitzgerald in some of the funniest stuff I've ever seen anywhere. While he does his costume and make-up changes, a large screen video with him as various other characters is playing and is just as funny. His PeeWeeMerman, Ethel Merman from the neck up, Pee Wee Herman from the neck down had me on the floor.

Each edition of the Forbidden Broadway is enjoyable. However, you've got to be theater savvy to fully appreciate the show.

I feel that Forbidden Broadway is only funny when you understand what is happening on Broadway. If you are not Broadway savvy, I would skip it.

Thanks for all the good info - I'm thinking we probably would do better to see something else - don't think we've seen enough Broadway to appreciate it!

We took our daughter and her ex-college roommate from North Carolina (both are age 25) this past summer and we all got a tremendous kick out of it. I'd hardly call these hip-hop gals Broadway saavy, but they "got" just about everything. We're not talking about far-inside jokes, here. The spoofiness is clever and classy then suddenly pops you with a side-splitter. The four actors (two women, two men) along with a very talented accompianist are truly wonderful. I still feel pleased thinking about how both these young women carefully stashed their playbills in their handbags as souvenirs.