I know there was thread about this already - but it just turned into a Corine bashing, haha. I'm curious though if anyone has seen the show lately? It officially opens next week, and I'm wondering how it's changed since I went during the first week of previews.... There was a lot of older stuff still in it when I went - Gotta Get A Puppet, Jersey Boys, Wicked, Annie - and no sign of Sister Act, Follies, Megan Hilty, etc that are illustrated in the cartoons on the poster. Has any of that been added yet? Do they still do the Tracie Bennett number?? that was a favorite of mine - she was dead on!!
I went two weeks ago and thought it was great! I posted the set list on the other thread, but I'll post it here again. I wonder how the show has changed since then.
FORBIDDEN BROADWAY set list 8/15/12 8 p.m. ACT 1 1. FOLLIES: “Bootleg Baby” 2. Forbidden Broadway song 3. EVITA: “In Evita Loca”; “Hello, Buenos Broadway” 4. NICE WORK IF YOU CAN GET IT: “Nice Song If I Can Sing It”; “S’Wonder Bread” 5. ANNIE (with the cigarette): “Tomorrow” 6. ONCE (a.k.a. ONCE IS ENOUGH): “Leave”; “Falling Slowly/Frere Jacques” 7. MARY POPPINS: Parody of “Supercalifragilitsticexpialidocious”; “Feed the ’Burbs” 8. FOLLIES: “In Stephen’s Ears” 9. PETER AND THE STARCATCHER: “Christian Borle Song” 10. SPIDER-MAN “Sue Me Sue Me” 11. GHOST 12. ANYTHING GOES: “Everything Blows” 13. CATHERINE ZETA-JONES cabaret act: “Send In the Hounds” 14. NEWSIES: “Seize the Stage”
ACT 2 15. LION KING 16. JERSEY BOYS: “Scary”; “Walk Like a Man, Sing Like a Girl”; “Big Shows Sell Out” 17. WICKED: “Defying Sanity” 18. PHANTOM OF THE OPERA: “The Mucus of the Night” 19. SMASH: “Let Me Be Subpar” 20. END OF THE RAINBOW: “I Wish You Hadn’t Done It”; “Flush, Flush, Flush Goes the Toilet” 21. BOOK OF MORMON: “Hello (Ding Dong)”; “I Believe” 22. PORGY AND BESS: “I Got Plenty of Gershwin”; “O Lord She’s on Her Way to Vacationland” 23. Forbidden Broadway song
@macnyc I saw the show yesterday and they made some more changes. Different opening number (it's now BRIGADOON themed), ANNIE number was different (it was called GRANNY), there was no Peter and the Starcatcher number, instead an INTO THE WOODS number. Also they added a ROCK OF AGES number in Act 1. SPIDER-MAN was in the second act instead. There was a hilarious Patti Lupone/Mandy Patinkin added in Act 2, instead of PHANTOM. PORGY AND BESS was moved to earlier in the second act, and the last sketch was THE BOOK OF MORMON. Completely different finale with a "Jesus Christ Superstar" cameo, and then the four cast members sing "I Believe."
I saw a preview earlier in August, and these new numbers were hilarious and the show has greatly improved since i first saw it!
Amazing how many changes there have been to the show in just two weeks. They're all working hard. I would like to see it again, maybe via the 20at20 promotion.
Huge changes! I saw it last night and it was fabulous. But, I think the order above was different, and there was no Into the Woods, Peter and the Starcatcher, or Phantom. Once was hilarious, but I was absolutely crying at the Evita part (when she did the whisper-soprano). Also, that guy's Mandy Patinkin was unbelievable. Sounds just like him.
The Into the Woods number was in when I saw it about three weeks ago. It started with Sondheim singing about the "Agony" of putting up Into the Woods in Central Park, and he was later joined by Donna Murphy and Amy Adams in their respective costumes. I don't remember too many specifics, but I remember a bit involving Amy Adams being endearingly clueless about what she was getting herself into.
"The Spectacle has, indeed, an emotional attraction of its own, but, of all the parts, it is the least artistic, and connected least with the art of poetry. For the power of Tragedy, we may be sure, is felt even apart from representation and actors. Besides, the production of spectacular effects depends more on the art of the stage machinist than on that of the poet."
--Aristotle
When I saw it, there were not numbers that referenced IN THE WOODS, FOLLIES, GHOST, or PHANTOM OF THE OPERA.
We did see an updated version of "You've Gotta Get a Puppet" with a WAR HORSE reference in the place of the LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS reference. We had a shortened version of "Wickeder."
I loved the performance I saw, and I'm glad I got the opportunity to enjoy FORBIDDEN BROADWAY live, which is something I had wanted to do for quite some time. I wish I could have seen it after the official opening date as well, but alas living in Houston, TX makes it hard.
this just announced it'll extend through April 28, 2013. Congrats to the cast & crew. just wondering as I didn't see any listed on their website, but considering they do 8 shows a week, do they have understudies??
A Chorus Line played its final Broadway performance on August 17, 2008. The tour played its final performance on August 21, 2011. A new non-equity tour started in October 2012 played its final performance on March 23, 2013.
In Stephen's Ears was still in the show about a month ago.
I may try to take notes when I see it again this Thursday
Agony started as a duet between Sondheim and Hal Prince about the agony of reviving their work, but it changed into the more recent version where Donna Murphy and Amy Adams joined him.
It stayed in until Sondheim was in the audience. They were discussing removing it since ITW had closed and once they saw Sondheim laughing heartily at the number they felt it there was no better time to remove it.
Anyone who is a fan of Seth Rudetsky can see the cast being interviewed at his Broadway Chatterbox. They do a couple medleys of songs from the show during the hour interview Robb's Youtube Page
FORBIDDEN BROADWAY set list 10/25/12 8 p.m. ACT 1 1. Brigadoon 2. Forbidden Broadway song 3. EVITA: “In Evita Loca”; “Hello, Buenos Broadway” 4. NICE WORK IF YOU CAN GET IT: “Nice Song If I Can Sing It”; “S’Wonder Bread” 5. ANNIE (with the cigarette): “Tomorrow” 6. ONCE (a.k.a. ONCE IS ENOUGH): “Leave”; “Falling Slowly/Frere Jacques” 7. MARY POPPINS: Parody of “Supercalifragilitsticexpialidocious”; “Feed the ’Burbs” 8. FOLLIES: “In Stephen’s Ears” 9. MARY POPPINS: Feed the Burbs 10. FOLLIES: "In Stephen's Ears" 11. ROCK OF AGES: "We Built This City on NASCAR Shows" 12. ANYTHING GOES: “Everything Blows” 13. CATHERINE ZETA-JONES cabaret act: “Send In the Hounds” 14. GHOST 15. NEWSIES: “Seize the Stage”
ACT 2 16. LION KING: "Circle of Mice" 17. SPIDER-MAN "Sue Me" 18. JERSEY BOYS: “Scary”; “Walk Like a Man, Sing Like a Girl”; “Big Shows Sell Out” 19. PORGY and BESS "Opera Time and the Singin' Ain't Easy"; Diane Paulus; "I Got Plenty of Gershwin" 20. SMASH: “Let Me Be Subpar” 21. MANDY AND PATTI 22. WICKED: “Defying Sanity” 23. END OF THE RAINBOW: “I Wish You Hadn’t Done It”; “Flush, Flush, Flush Goes the Toilet” 24. BOOK OF MORMON: “Hello (Ding Dong)”; “I Believe” 25. Forbidden Broadway song
I think the impressions of Bernadette Peters and Harvey Fierstein have been better on previous recordings. And "Buenos Broadway" is really mean spirited, but other than that the recording is very enjoyable.
There should totally be a newsie named Little Dick.
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Posted: 8/28/12 at 03:36pm