title: Forbidden Broadway Goes to Rehab
text: # Forbidden Broadway Goes to Rehab
  
  Forbidden Broadway Goes to Rehab is the 2008 incarnation of Gerard Alessandrini's long-running hit Off-Broadway musical revue Forbidden Broadway, which parodies notable current Broadway and Off-Broadway musicals. It was initially announced that this would be the final version of the show, until the franchise was revived with Forbidden Broadway: Alive & Kicking! in 2012 and Forbidden Broadway Comes Out Swinging! in 2014.
  
  ## Production
  
  Forbidden Broadway Goes to Rehab opened on September 17, 2008 at New York's 47th Street Theatre and closed on March 1, 2009. The show was conceived, created and written by Alessandrini and was co-directed by Alessandrini and Phillip George.
  
  The plays and musicals parodied in Forbidden Broadway Goes to Rehab include August: Osage County, Equus, Spring Awakening, In the Heights, A Tale of Two Cities, South Pacific, Mary Poppins, Gypsy, Sunday In The Park With George, Young Frankenstein, and Xanadu. The personalities portrayed include Bernadette Peters, Patti LuPone, Liza Minnelli and Kristin Chenoweth.
  
  ## Opening cast
  
  * Christina Bianco
  * Jared Bradshaw
  * Gina Kreiezmar
  * Michael West
  * David Caldwell, music director and piano
  
  ## Replacements and understudies
  
  * James Donegan replaced Jared Bradshaw
  * Kristen Mengelkoch, female understudy
  * William Selby, male understudy/dance captain
  
  ## Original cast album
  
  The tracks featured on the cast recording
  
  * Forbidden Broadway Goes to Rehab
  * All That Chat
  * In the Heights Segment
  * Tale of Two Cities Segment
  * South Pacific Segment
  * Mary Poppins: 2nd Season
  * August: Osage County
  * Daniel Radcliffe in Equus
  * Patti Lupone [sic] In Gypsy
  * Young Frankenstein
  * Xanadude
  * Kristen [sic] Chenoweth: Glitter and Be Glib
  * Sondheim: Putting Up Revivals
  * Stephen Sondheim Finale
  * My Musical Comedy Smile
  * The Pajama Game
  * See Me on a Monday
  * (Dying Is Easy) Comedy Is Hard
  