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"Forbidden Broadway" Returns To Boston To Honor Composer With A Parody Twist

The production, which ran for seven years at the Park Plaza in the '80s and '90s, returns for three shows at the Emerson Colonial Theater.

(CBS Boston)

February 4, 2025

BOSTON - "Forbidden Broadway" is back in Boston. The parody production, which ran for seven years at the Park Plaza in the '80s and '90s, is returning for a trio of shows at the Emerson Colonial Theater.

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The man behind the spoof is a Tony Award winner from Needham.

Gerard Alessandrini told us, as a teen, "I'd come in and see shows here, right here at the Colonial. Then write a parody about it for my friends, and I'd sing it, and if people had seen the show or knew the stars, they'd laugh."

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