FORBIDDEN BROADWAY to Return with New Victims and Laughs at Pepperdine

Forbidden Broadway returns to the stage with new victims and new laughs at Pepperdine University's Smothers Theatre in Malibu on Sunday, October 23, 2016 at 7 p.m.

Tickets, priced starting at $22 for the public and $10 for full-time Pepperdine students, are available now by calling (310) 506-4522 or online at arts.pepperdine.edu. More information about Forbidden Broadway available at www.forbiddenbroadway.com.

The Drama Desk and Obie Award-winning, fall-down funny musical roast of Broadway hits in 90 minutes is back, featuring outrageous costumes, dead-on impressions, and hilarious rewrites of the songs from Pippin, Kinky Boots, LES MISERABLES, Matilda, Wicked, The Book of Mormon, and more.

A hit with audiences and critics alike, Forbidden Broadway has people of all ages rolling in the aisles. The New York Times raved, "Forbidden Broadway is absolutely hilarious!" LA Weekly proclaimed, "Outrageous hilarity! The cast is brilliant!"

Forbidden Broadway was first seen at Palsson's Supper Club on New York's Upper West Side in 1982. An unemployed actor, Gerard Alessandrini, wanted a showcase for his talents. He decided to assemble some of the musical parodies of Broadway shows he had written since childhood into a nightclub act. Critics and audiences were wowed, and it has since become New York's longest-running musical comedy revue.

The show has won Tony, Drama Desk, Obie, Outer Critics Circle, a Lucille Lortel, and Drama League Award awards. Most of its victims (stars and casts alike) make a point of stopping by to see what Alessandrini has done to them.

Updated regularly, Forbidden Broadway has had several editions, countless revisions, three New York City performance spaces, several national and international tours, and thousands of special performances.

The show has also become known for talented but as-yet-unknown actors, many of whom have gone on to stardom on Broadway, on television, and in the movies.

As long as Broadway and Hollywood exist, there will be a Forbidden-poking, prodding, teasing, pleasing, jeering, and cheering, but always with love.

This performance is sponsored by the Office of Andrew K. Benton, President of Pepperdine University.

The Lisa Smith Wengler Center for the Arts at Pepperdine University provides high-quality activities for over 50,000 people from 808 zip codes annually through performances, rehearsals, museum exhibitions, and master classes. Located on Pepperdine's breathtaking Malibu campus overlooking the Pacific, the center serves as a hub for the arts, uniquely linking professional guest artists with Pepperdine students as well as patrons from surrounding Southern California communities. Facilities include the 450-seat Smothers Theatre, the 118-seat Raitt Recital Hall, the "black box" Helen E. Lindhurst Theatre, and the Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art.

IF YOU GO:

Forbidden Broadway

WHEN: Sunday, October 23, 2016 at 7 p.m.

WHERE: Smothers Theatre, Pepperdine University, 24255 Pacific Coast Highway, Malibu, CA

TICKETS: (310) 506-4522 or arts.pepperdine.edu

PRICES: $22-$45; $10 for Pepperdine students

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