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September 18, 2008
THEATER REVIEW | 'FORBIDDEN BROADWAY GOES TO REHAB'
Giving Their Regards by Skewering the Shows
By BEN BRANTLEY
Can this really be the end of “Forbidden Broadway”? It’s true that this venerable satiric revue was looking a bit peaked when I checked in on it a year ago, as if the exertions of searching for shows distinctive enough to caricature in a bland Broadway season had sapped it of its natural vim and vinegar.
But having announced that it would be officially ending its nearly 27-year reign of merry terror on Jan. 15, Gerard Alessandrini’s long-lived show appears to have been blessed with that burst of have-to-win energy that descends on weary racers as they near the finish line. Its latest incarnation, which opened Wednesday night at the 47th Street Theater, finds an old war horse of spoofery with muscles tautened, nostrils flaring and teeth polished and sharpened — the better to kick, snort at and bite the institution that has fed it for so many years.
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THEATER REVIEW | 'FORBIDDEN BROADWAY GOES TO REHAB'
Giving Their Regards by Skewering the Shows
By BEN BRANTLEY
Can this really be the end of “Forbidden Broadway”? It’s true that this venerable satiric revue was looking a bit peaked when I checked in on it a year ago, as if the exertions of searching for shows distinctive enough to caricature in a bland Broadway season had sapped it of its natural vim and vinegar.
But having announced that it would be officially ending its nearly 27-year reign of merry terror on Jan. 15, Gerard Alessandrini’s long-lived show appears to have been blessed with that burst of have-to-win energy that descends on weary racers as they near the finish line. Its latest incarnation, which opened Wednesday night at the 47th Street Theater, finds an old war horse of spoofery with muscles tautened, nostrils flaring and teeth polished and sharpened — the better to kick, snort at and bite the institution that has fed it for so many years.
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