Forbidden Broadway, Vol. 8 - Special Victims Unit
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Edition: Music CDCD Release Date: 2005-04-26
Music Label: Drg
Soundtracks:
- The Crime Scene (Tomorrow/On Broadway) * Ron, Megan & Jennifer
- Forbidden Broadway: Special Victims Unit * Ron, Megan, Jason & Jennifer
- Bombay Wet Dreams (Lullaby of Broadway/Hooray For Hollywood) * Ron, Megan, Jason & Jennifer
- You Gotta Get A Puppet (You Gotta Get A Gimmick) * Ron, Jennifer & Jason
- It Sucks To Be Us (It Sucks to Be Me) * Ron, Megan, Jason & Jennifer
- Thoroughly Perky Millie (Thoroughly Modern Millie) * Megan with Ron & Jason
- Movin' Out (My Life) * Ron
- 'night Mother (That's Amore/Ma, He's Making Eyes at Me) * Christine & Jennifer
- Welcome To The Tony's (Welcome To The Sixties) * Ron, Megan, Jason & Jennifer
- The Boy Who's Odd (I Go To Rio/Everything Old Is New Again) * Jason, Christine & Jennifer
- I Love Patti (I Love Paris) * Megan with Ron, Jason & Jennifer
- Das Mel Brooks Song (Haben Sie Gehort Das Deytsche Band?) * Ron
- Wickeder (Popular/Defying Gravity) * Jennifer & Megan with Ron & Jason
- No Leading Lady Tonight (Luck Be A Lady Tonight) * Ron & Jennifer
- Forbidden Assassin (I Am Not Worthy Of Your Love) * Ron & Jennifer
- Julie Andrews hosts PBS - The American Musical : The Next Hundred Years (Do-Re-Mi/Fun, Fun, Fun) * Jennifer with Ron & Jason
- I Am My Own Cast (Willkommen) * Jason
- Mamma Mi-diocre (Mamma Mia/Dancing Queen) * Megan & Jennifer
- Fiddler With No Jew (Tradition/Matchmaker/Sabbath Prayer) * Megan, Jennifer & Christine
- Harvey Fierstein as Tevye (If I Were A Rich Man) * Ron, Megan, Jason, Jennifer & Christine
- Bernadette Peters in Gypsy (Rose's Turn) * Jennifer
- Ethel Merman & Friends (There's No Business Like Show Business) * Megan with Ron, Jason & Jennifer
- Encore: "La Cage Aw ful" (La Cage Aux Folles/The Best Of Times) * Ron, Megan, Jason & Jennifer
Free Music Notes for Forbidden Broadway, Vol. 8 - Special Victims Unit
Free Music Review: ONLY for Long-Time Broadway Dorks
Hit: 3 Stars
The songs are hit-and-miss, and I sincerely suggest getting the cd from the library or buying specific songs that pertain to shows you like and know well. The jokes are all very...obvious, I guess would be the word. It's funny, but if I hadn't listened to twenty Stephen Sondheim musicals beforehand, I would've found "Forbidden Assassins" extremely boring. Most people should like the Mel Brooks parody "Das Mel Brooks Song" and a few others, but it's really a "what's your taste" thing.
It's sort of like how the horror movie "Scream" was a smart parody of the slasher flicks, and then movies like "Scary Movie" started parodying "Scream"--when parodies start being parodied...you wonder if they've run out of ideas...
I do have to admit though, that at the beginning of "Julie Andrews hosts PBS..." where the acterss states that "there's nothing like a PBS special to announce the death of an art form", I couldn't help but laugh and think, "that, and a show like Forbidden Broadway."
Forbidden Broadway, Vol. 8 - Special Victims Unit Poster
The eighth volume of Forbidden Broadway, Special Victims Unit, riffs off of the recently passed Jerry Orbach's dual career as Broadway leading man and television detective, as the long-running spoof show sets itself to "investigating homicides of a theatrical nature." Fans of the series know that means ruthless skewering of everything connected to the Great White Way through skillful mimicry and hilarious words set to familiar tunes. The victims include shows such as Bombay Dreams, Avenue Q, and Thoroughly Modern Millie ("the worst Best Musical ever!"); personalities such as Brooke Shields, Stephen Schwartz, the two stars of Wicked, and Harvey Fierstein; and trends such as pop-music-based shows, stars who miss performances, and revivals. One particularly amusing trick is turning Assassins' lyrical tribute to Jodie Foster and Charles Manson into a theater geek's tribute to Stephen Sondheim, "Unworthy of Your Words" ("I am unworthy of your words / I cannot sing your minor thirds..."). Broadway has been supplying creator-writer Gerard Allessandrini's franchise with fresh material for over 20 years, and it remains vicious and funny. --David HoriuchiBroadway & Vocalists Music CDs
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