Forbidden Broadway Goes to Rehab is the 2008 incarnation of Gerard Alessandrini's long-running hit Off-Broadway musical revue Forbidden Broadway, which parodies notable current Broadway and Off-Broadway musicals.
It was initially announced that this would be the final version of the show, until the franchise was revived with Forbidden Broadway: Alive & Kicking!
Forbidden Broadway Goes to Rehab opened on September 17, 2008 at New York's 47th Street Theatre [1] and closed on March 1, 2009.
The plays and musicals parodied in Forbidden Broadway Goes to Rehab include August: Osage County, Equus, Spring Awakening, In the Heights, A Tale of Two Cities, South Pacific, Mary Poppins, Gypsy, Sunday In The Park With George, Young Frankenstein, and Xanadu.
The personalities portrayed include Bernadette Peters, Patti LuPone, Liza Minnelli and Kristin Chenoweth.