FORBIDDEN BROADWAY: ALIVE AND KICKING Ends Off-Broadway Run Today

Gerard Alessandrini's Forbidden Broadway: Alive and Kicking! ends its run today, April 28, at the 47th Street Theatre (304 West 47th Street). The smash musical, which received unanimous raves from critics and audiences alike, broke all box-office records at the 47th Street Theatre and won spots on the Top Ten Lists of Time Magazine and the Associated Press, begins its hiatus in order to make room for The Puerto Rican Traveling Theatre's own season, as required by the show's lease agreement with the theatre.

In a statement, Mr. Alessandrini said, "We knew from the start that the theatre could only be ours until the end of April. Although we hate to leave town when we're a hit, I actually think this is a perfect time for us to wind up 'Alive and Kicking', which has been a thrilling return to New York for us, to take a brief break; and to begin plans to return with another edition to be announced."

This edition stars Lindsay Nicole Chambers, Natalie Charlé Ellis, Scott Richard Foster, Marcus Stevens and David Caldwell on piano. DRG Record's cast recording, Forbidden Broadway: Alive and Kicking! The UN-Original Cast Album, is available in stores, on iTunes and Amazon.com.

Recent backstage visitors have included Carol Burnett, Stephen Sondheim, Mike Nichols, Lesley Stahl, Diane Sawyer, and Michael Kors.

Forbidden Broadway; ALIVE AND KICKING, features Gerard Alessandrini's parodies Broadway's biggest shows and brightest stars, including Cinderella, Annie, Newsies, Once, Book of Mormon, Spiderman, Evita, Porgy and Bess, Anything Goes, Follies, as well of send-ups of Catherine Zeta-Jones, Matthew Broderick, Anne Hathaway, Hugh Jackman and Russell Crowe in the film version of LES MISERABLES, Patti LuPone, Mandy Patinkin, Al Pacino and Phillip Seymour Hoffman, among others.

Pictured: Marcus Stevens (left) and Scott Richard Foster (right). Photo Credit: Carol Rosegg.