Sad to say, Forbidden Broadway Goes to Rehab should more accurately be titled Fordbidden Broadway Goes Away, as writer-creator Gerard Alessandrini has decided to retract his claws and put this 27-year-old series of spoofs on possibly permanent hiatus on January 15. Luckily, there are many good reasons to visit the 47th Street Theatre other than to pay one's last respects, even if Alessandrini isn't going out with his best-ever outing.

In many ways, Rehab is one of Forbidden Broadway's more gentle editions, although the knives have been duly sharpened for a few shows, especially the entire Disney canon. While Young Frankenstein, In The Heights, and oddly enough, August: Osage County (for whi[...]