Off Broadway Review: ‘Forbidden Broadway Comes Out Swinging!’

Anybody who got through this Broadway theater season alive deserves to see Forbidden Broadway Comes Out Swinging! — the latest edition of the irreverent satirical revue that has no scruples and knows no shame. Forget the Tony nominations. Gerard Alessandrini and his clever cohorts have come up with winners in their own special categories of Most Pretentious, Most Ridiculous, Most Expensive, Most Cynical, Most Derivative, and, in their inspired salute to the show they call “More Miserable,” (The World’s) Most Miserable Musical. Making a showy entrance in boxing gloves, the amazingly versatile cast of four, under the pitiless direction of Phillip George and Alessandrini, announce their intention of taking a roundhouse swing at all the big shows that opened this season, from Aladdin to Rocky, while saving a few punches for past favorites like Pippin and “The Book of Morons.”