| NEW OFF-BROADWAY REVIEW: "FORBIDDEN BROADWAY: MERRILY WE STOLE A SONG" | |
| Posted by: T.B._Admin. 07:33 am EDT 09/20/24 | |
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| Marc Miller takes a look at Forbidden Broadway: Merrily We Stole a Song at Theater 555: So let me take you back to the original Forbidden Broadway. It's 1982 and we're at Palsson's, an inelegant upstairs boîte on West 72nd Street (it's still there, as the Triad). The stage is a postage stamp. Fred Barton is pounding, wonderfully, at the piano. Production values are minimal. I don't remember if there are mics, but if there are, they're superfluous; Nora Mae Lyng doesn't need a mic to convince you she's Ethel Merman. We've had intimate revues before, of course, but there's never been anything quite like what Gerard Alessandrini is serving up: an intimate revue that uses tunes we know to merrily mock past and present Broadway, expertly satirize stars' performance quirks, make us feel conspiratorially in the know, and challenge us not to laugh out loud, lest we lose the next line. |
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