Forbidden Broadway, Vol. 8 - Special Victims Unit
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Free Music Notes for Forbidden Broadway, Vol. 8 - Special Victims Unit
Free Music Review: Good to have Forbidden Broadway back!
Hit: 5 Stars
This CD features the current [and a few years ago] Broadway season and has shows like: Wicked, Avenue Q and Assasains. It's a great collectors item for the die-hard fans and a nice CD for the regular fans. Very very funny. I also reccomend Forbidden Broadway cleans up it's act and forbidden broadway volume 1 and 2. [Maybe it'd be best to buy the box set]. But still, this CD only goes to show FB hasn't lost it's charm and is still going on to be the longest running show off-Broadway! Buy this!Free Music Review: Forbidden Broadway 8: Special Victims Unit
Hit: 5 Stars
Very funny spoofs on Broadway tunes and shows - some classic, some new. These guys know Broadway, and they know where - and how - to poke fun at it.
Free Music Review: Always Hilarious!!
Hit: 5 Stars
Once again Gerard Allesandrini and company have hit the comic nail on the head. A riot. The Bernadette Peters parody is worth the price alone!!Free Music Review: Lyrics Are Still Missing
Hit: 4 Stars
My immediate complaint seems to be a continuous one from previous albums. Some lyrics are just too wordy to decipher without a lyric booklet. As others have said, this CD does recycle some of Gerard's better jokes and gags. However, considering it's done somewhat tastefully, and the show has been running for 20+ years, I'll cut him some slack. All impersonations tend to drift in and out a little, and while it's true that Liza, Merman, Julie Andrews, and others have had better imitations in the past, those of Idina Menzel, Kristin Chenoweth, Hugh Jackman, and Marissa Jaret Winokur are fairly good. Bernadette Peter's and Judy Garland's, however, actually reach the point of excellent. Listening to a 1:14 length parody of "The Producers" with a 7 minute parody of "Fiddler on the Roof" makes one wish that Gerard had more consistent segment lengths. By reducing the random songs from this album, such as the "Night Mother" and "Forbidden Assassins" spoofs, more space could've been made for hit shows, like "Avenue Q", "Thoroughly Modern Millie", "Hairspray", and "The Producers", to be more than touched upon. It seems like a waste to have such great shows receive partially negligable parodies. Hopefully, they can be reused in expanded versions on a future CD. But, until then, though this album may lack the charm and witty humor of earlier editions, this CD is not nearly as atrocious as others are claiming. It's just a bit "recycled, recycled, recycled...and everything old is still old again."Free Music Review: Much good, wish there was more
Hit: 4 Stars
As noted below, there is much to laud in this CD; the performers in the parody on "Wicked" are as good as the originals (and I prefer the parody more!), and the "Assassins" parody is sublime (as is the original). I would buy the CD for these alone, as well as the take-off on the Tony Awards show. And many other nice parodies and spoofs. But I just wish there had been more here that was new (some melodies from earlier versions are recycled), and that there were longer parodies on the shows (like the "Wicked" parody, or earlier "Les Miserables" parodies). While I enjoy the Liza/Ethel Merman/Patti Lupone parodies, we've heard the like of them before. 25 more minutes of fresh, new material would have brought the star-level up.
But, of course, for "Forbidden Broadway" fans, this is a must.