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Reviews of Forbidden Broadway

Where can you find Bea Arthur and Elaine Stritch dueting? Stephen Sondheim conducting a sing-along? Mel Brooks starring in The Producers? Only in Forbidden Broadway, the irreverent, ever-morphing parody now turning 20.

Gerard Alessandrini The New York Times

Forbidden Broadway is better value than anything on Broadway. I once compared it to the Chrysler Building, but that doesn't quite do it. Let's just say it's even funnier than The Producers, and marginally less literate than Shakespeare.

Melisssa Rose Bernardo Entertainment Weekly

WHEN "Forbidden Broadway," the revue that extols and lambastes the Fabulous Invalid called Broadway, approached its 20th anniversary this year, I thought, "How wonderful." Not entirely because, as the show's writer and co-director, I had a job in theater that had entered its third decade, but because I also thought: "Oh, good! I can do a retrospective and I won't have to write anything new. I'll pick a few favorites from my catalog of 450 parodies and then go off to Hawaii and listen to the new CD of `Subways Are for Sleeping.

Patricia O'Haire Daily News