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Forbidden Broadway Opens at York

Tony Award winning parodist Gerard Alessandrini is back with a hilarious all new Forbidden Brodway: The Next Generation!

January 20, 2020: Forbidden Broadway: The Next Generation opened at the York Theatre last night. Yes, Gerard Alessandrini’s Forbidden Broadway is back, after a 5- year absence, with a new and timely spoof of the theater, which this time arounds includes some current movies as well. The new edition, featuring a stellar cast with Fred Barton on the piano and choreography by Gerry McIntrye, is just as funny as ever. The outstanding performers are Immanuel Houston, Aline Mayagoitia, Chris Collins-Pisano, Jenny Lee Stern, and Joshua Turchin.

Tony Award winning parodist Gerard Alessandrini is back with a hilarious all new Forbidden Brodway: The Next Generation!

January 20, 2020: Forbidden Broadway: The Next Generation opened at the York Theatre last night. Yes, Gerard Alessandrini’s Forbidden Broadway is back, after a 5- year absence, with a new and timely spoof of the theater, which this time arounds includes some current movies as well. The new edition, featuring a stellar cast with Fred Barton on the piano and choreography by Gerry McIntrye, is just as funny as ever. The outstanding performers are Immanuel Houston, Aline Mayagoitia, Chris Collins-Pisano, Jenny Lee Stern, and Joshua Turchin.

Joshua Turchin, Immanuel Houston, *Jenny Lee Stern*, *Fred Barton*, Aline Mayagoitia, Chris Collins-Pisano

Alessandrini and company take comic and musical aim at Hadestown, Moulin Rouge, Tootsie, Beetlejuice, the very dark Oklahoma, The Ferryman, the Yiddish Fiddler on the Roof, The Cher Show, Dear Evan Hansen, What the Constitution Means to Me, and the new generation of Broadway stars including Ben Platt, Santino Fontana, Billy Porter, Alex Brightman and exciting returns by Bette Midler, Andre de Shields, Bernadette Peters, Karen Olivo, and Lin-Manuel Miranda.

Due to popular demand Forbidden Broadway: The Next Generation has been extended at the York Theatre through February 16^th.

FORBIDDEN BROADWAY: THE NEXT GENERATION
FOR TICKETS: In Person @ The York Theatre Company at Saint Peter’s Church at Citicorp.
619 Lexington Avenue, entrance on East 54^th Street, just east of Lexington Avenue, Lower Level 2.
By Phone 212 935-5820 or online www.yorktheatre.org
Running Time 80 Minutes – No Intermission
Click Here To Read Review by Patrick Christiano

Photography of Opening Night and After Party by Barry Gordin

Immanuel Houston, Creator/Director/Conceiver Gerard Alessandrini, Joshua Turchin, Producer John Freedson, Jenny Lee Stern, Choreographer Gerry McIntrye, Aline Mayagoitia, Fred Barton, Chris Collins-Pisano, York Producing Artistic Director James Morgan, York Executive Director Evans Haile

**Charles Wright, Penelope Stern- Kushnier, Ed Karam**

**Elisa Loti Stein, Riki Kane Larimer, Margery Gray, Sheldon Harnick**

**Evan Haile, Margery Gray, Sheldon Harnick, Richard Maltby.Jr.,** **Mimi Turque, Lynn Ahrens**

**Immanuel Houston, Joshua Turchin, Fred Barton, Chris Collins-Pisano**

**John Freedson, GerryMcIntyre, Gerard Alessandrini, Joan Ross Sorkin, Evans Haile, Fred Barton, James Morgan**

**Fred Barton, John Freedson, Gerard Alesandrini**

**Penelope Stern- Kushnier**, **Jenny Lee Stern**

**Sara Johnson Kaplan, Neal Rubenstein**

**Jenny Lee Stern**, **Aline Mayagoiti**a

**William Selby, Gerard Alesandrini, Karen Murphy, John Freedson**

**Gerard Alesandrini**, **Jamie deRoy, John Freedson**

**Penelope Stern- Kushnier**, **Jenny Lee Stern , Patrick Christiano**

**Chris Collins-Pisano, James Morgan, Immanuel Houston**

**Gerard Alesandrini**, **Carol Ostrow, John Freedson**

**Chris Collins-Pisano, Immanuel Houston**

**Joan Ryan,** **Jamie deRoy, Richard Maltby Jr.,** **Sandy McFarland**

Opening Night @ Townhouse of New York, Photography Barry Gordin