Gerard Alessandrini's Forbidden Broadway marks its 25th Anniversary with a brand-new edition, Forbidden Broadway: Rude Awakening, featuring spoofs of the season including Spring Awakening, Curtains, A Chorus Line, Grease: You're The One That We Want, Legally Blonde, Frost/Nixon, Mary Poppins, and The Disney Musicals in addition to Company and Grey Garden, among others.

Forbidden Broadway has been an unstoppable force in New York theatre since 1982 when Gerard Alessandrini created the first parody that lampooned the Broadway shows and stars of the day. It has been a favorite among theatre lovers, as well as the Broadway stars themselves (Carol Channing, Kathleen Turner, Raul Esparza, Donna Murphy, Bernadette Peters, Tommy Tune, Stephen Sondheim, Patti Lupone, Cameron Mackintosh, and Hal Prince, to name a few) who often stop by to laugh at themselves alongside their public.