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Forbidden Broadway Plans Miami Run During Off-Broadway Hiatus

NEWS March 17, 2008 | 2:24PM

Forbidden Broadway: Rude Awakening is headed to Miami during its annual spring hiatus from off-Broadway's 47th Street Theatre. The show will begin its break on March 24 and resume performances in New York on June 28.

Under the terms of its rental agreement, Forbidden Broadway must vacate the 47th Street Theatre each spring to allow the Puerto Rican Traveling ...

Forbidden Broadway: Rude Awakening - 25th Anniversary Cast Recording

FEATURES January 23, 2008 | 3:05PM

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Forbidden Broadway: Rude Awakening, the CD of the off-Broadway show's 25th-anniversary edition, is, I regret to say, a losing proposition—like, I am even sorrier to say, the show itself. Even, if possible, much more losing yet.

But let me begin with the good news, scant as it now is. For 25 years ...

Jared Bradshaw

FRESH FACE August 9, 2007 | 9:56AM

Age: 28

Currently: Channeling David Hyde Pierce, Jonathan Groff, John Travolta and more in the long-running satirical revue Forbidden Broadway: The Roast of Utopia.

Hometown: McDonough, Georgia, "30 minutes south of Atlanta."

Thriller! Like many a musical performer, Bradshaw got his start in church, singing behind his Baptist minister dad. "I learned to read music from the four parts in ...

Revised Edition of Forbidden Broadway Spoofs New Musicals

NEWS July 30, 2007 | 3:51PM

A new edition of Gerard Alessandrini's Forbidden Broadway will begin previews on August 31 and open on September 23 at the 47th Street Theatre. Dubbed Forbidden Broadway: Rude Awakening, the show will feature spoofs of current offerings including Spring Awakening, Curtains, A Chorus Line, Grease: You're The One That We Want, Legally Blonde, Frost/Nixon, Mary Poppins and ... Read More...

Forbidden Broadway: SVU to Take a 10-Week Break from Off-B'way

NEWS January 17, 2006 | 4:56PM

Forbidden Broadway: Special Victims Unit will be taking a 10-week break from its run at the 47th Street Theatre this spring, sitting down in San Diego at the Theatre in Old Town during that period. The hiatus is required under the show's lease agreement with the 47th Street Theatre--each year the theater's resident company, The Puerto Rican Traveling ... Read More...

Forbidden Broadway to Begin Perfs at 47th Street Theatre on 6/24

NEWS June 1, 2005 | 4:57PM

Forbidden Broadway: Special Victims Unit, which ended its run at the Douglas Fairbanks Theatre on May 22, will start performances at its new home four days later than previously announced. The show will now get underway at the 47th Street Theatre on June 24.

Forbidden Broadway: SVU opened at the Fairbanks on December 16, 2004. It pokes fun at Broadway ...

Forbidden Broadway to Live on at 47th Street Theatre

NEWS April 11, 2005 | 5:58PM

Even though its current home, the Douglas Fairbanks Theatre, is being torn down, Forbidden Broadway will live on. The long-running musical will play its last performance at the Fairbanks on May 29 and its first show at its new home, the 47th Street Theatre, on June 20.

The Douglas Fairbanks Theatre is the production's fourth New York home--it previously ...