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GERARD ALESSANDRINI (1953 - ) |
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Nationality: USA Email: n/a Website: n/a |
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Gerard Alessandrini is best known for writing and directing all the editions of Forbidden Broadway and Forbidden Hollywood, in New York, Los Angeles, London and around the world. Gerard was also a member of the original cast of Forbidden Broadway. Gerard is from Needham, Massachusetts and the Boston area, where he graduated from the Boston Conservatory of Music. In 1982, he created and wrote Forbidden Broadway, which has spawned 15 editions, eight cast albums and a 24-year-and-counting run in New York. Television credits include writing comedy specials for Bob Hope and Angela Lansbury on NBC, Carol Burnett on CBS and "Masterpiece Tonight" on PBS, a satirical revue saluting Masterpiece Theater. As a performer, he can be heard on four of the eight Forbidden Broadway cast albums and on the soundtracks of Disney's animated classics Aladdin and Pocahontas. Directing credits include many industrials for Canada Dry and Mobil, etc. In 1998 he directed a production of Maury Yeston's musical In the Beginning. In the summer of 2001 he co-directed a revival of Irving Berlin's last musical Mr. President, which Gerard also updated and "politically corrected." Gerard is the recipient of an Obie Award, an Outer Critics Circle Award, two Lucille Lortel Awards, a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Drama League, and three Drama Desk Awards for Best Lyrics for Forbidden Broadway. Most recently, Forbidden Broadway received additional Drama Desk Awards for Best Musical Revue for Forbidden Broadway 2001 and Special Victims Unit.
Plays by Gerard Alessandrini
Forbidden Broadway | ||
| 1st Produced: | Palsson's Supper Club on New York's Upper West Side | Jan 1982 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #398 | |||
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Genre: | Revue Show | |||||
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Synopsis: | 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. Forbidden Broadway has won Drama Desk, Obie and Outer Critics Circle. Most of its victims (stars and casts) make a point of stopping by to see what Gerard Alessandrini has done to them. | |||||
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Forbidden Broadway Dances with the Stars! | ||
| 1st Produced: | 47th Street Theatre, NY | 2008 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #85824 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | 85 min Musical | |||||
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Notes: | created and written by Gerard Alessandrini | |||||
Synopsis: | Gerard Alessandrini presents the 25th anniversary edition of Forbidden Broadway. According to the show's press release, this new production "will feature spoofs of the season including Spring Awakening, Curtains, A Chorus Line, Grease: You're the One That We Want, Legally Blonde, Frost/Nixon, Mary Poppins, and the Disney Musicals in addition to Company and Grey Gardens, among others." | |||||
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Forbidden Broadway Goes to Rehab | ||
| 1st Produced: | 47th Street Theatre, NY | 2008 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #89060 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | Musical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
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Synopsis: | Gerard Alessandrini presents the 25th anniversary edition of Forbidden Broadway. According to the show's press release, this new production "will feature spoofs of the season including Spring Awakening, Curtains, A Chorus Line, Grease: You're the One That We Want, Legally Blonde, Frost/Nixon, Mary Poppins, and the Disney Musicals in addition to Company and Grey Gardens, among others." | |||||
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Forbidden Broadway: Special Victims Unit | ||
| 1st Produced: | 47th Street Theatre, NY | 2006 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #61878 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | 105 min Musical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
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Notes: | created and written by Gerard Alessandrini | |||||
Synopsis: | Forbidden Broadway is one of New York theatre's mainstays; it's been running on and off for more than 20 years now, providing a constant and usually very reliable barometer of the state of Broadway theatre in general and musicals in particular. It's a revue of parody songs and scenes that satirize Broadway fare past and present. | |||||
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Forbidden Broadway: The Roast of Utopia | ||
| 1st Produced: | 47th Street Theatre, NY | 2007 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #68582 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | Musical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
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Notes: | created and written by Gerard Alessandrini | |||||
Synopsis: | This is a new edition of the long-running musical revue, which parodies current and past Broadway musicals. Expect satirical treatments of Mary Poppins, Avenue Q, Spring Awakening, Legally Blonde, Jersey Boys, Grey Gardens, and more. | |||||
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