But this production, instead of spoofing Broadway, lampooned popular films such as Forrest Gump, Sense and Sensibility, Pulp Fiction, Casablanca, The Wizard of Oz and Disney's Aladdin, and songs featured in them, although most of the score consists of songs from musicals used to comment on the films.
It also spoofs movie stars like Tom Hanks, Keanu Reeves, Barbra Streisand, Ann-Margret and Whoopi Goldberg.
A New York Times reviewer wrote that although the production had funny moments, "the tone that defines the show is a glib disaffection for Hollywood", lamenting that the show missed the opportunity to use more songs from films, and concluding: "It's fine if Mr. Alessandrini wants to see Hollywood as the enemy, but you have to know your enemy to take good aim at it.
The album was released by Varèse Sarabande Records, recorded live in Hollywood, and features the original cast members, many of whom also have appeared in Forbidden Broadway.
[citation needed] Note: (*) indicates that this person performed in earlier Forbidden Broadway shows The numbers on the album are listed below, noting the songs they spoof, and the original composers/lyricists.