Side A
Artist	Song
orig. cast recording	Forbidden Broadway
"	Tomorrow
"	Triplets
"	Bankable Stars/I'm Entertainment
"	Merman & Martin Sequence
"	Fugue for Scalpers
"	Into the Words
"	Mandy: Somewhat Overindulgent
"	Chita-Rita
"	Elaine Stritch: Ladies Who Screech
"	Trouble in New York City
"	Julie Andrews: I Couldn't Hit The Note
"	Back to Barbra
"	What Happened to Heart?
"	Elaine Stritch: Zip
"	Bernadette & Mandy in So Miscast
"	Disney on Broadway: Be Depressed
Side B
Artist	Song	Buy
orig. cast recording	Stop Cats!: Meow I Hope I Get It
"	Chicago: Glossy Fosse
"	Lion King Segment: The Circle of Mice/Can You Feel the Pain Tonight?
"	Ann Miller: I'm Still Weird
"	Super-Frantic-Hyper-Active-Self-Indulgent Mandy
"	Liza: Cabaret Sequence
"	The Sound of Music in Cabaret
"	Judi Dench: Why Can't Americans?
"	Kiss Me Kate: Would-Be Stars/I Hate Ben
"	Saturday Night Fiasco
"	Ethel & Elton: Old Fashioned Show Tune
"	Being Lupone
"	Sondheim's Blues
"	Angela Lansbury: I Don't Want to Go
"	Ambition

Comment:

Here's one that may prove bewildering to practically every single person at AOTM. "Forbidden Broadway" is an off-Broadway revue that's run for 20 years, mocking the shows, trends and personalities of Broadway with ruthlessly brilliant comic lyrics set to great show tunes and sung by fiendish vocal impersonators. To fully appreciate this, you need a deep knowledge of the Broadway songbook of the last 50 years and an easy familiarity with the contemporary theatre scene. Mandy Patinkin's over-the-top rendition of "Over the Rainbow" is mocked as "Somewhat Overindulgent," with a devastating, spot-on vocal parody. Elaine Stritch's showstopper from "Company," "The Ladies Who Lunch," becomes a paean to vocally pushy stars in "The Ladies Who Screech." Stephen Sondheim's "The God-Why-Don't-You-Love-Me Blues" (a/k/a Buddy's Blues) from "Follies" sends up the composer's current trouble getting a show on the boards as "The Everybody-Loves-Me-But-Nobody-Will-Produce-Me Blues." Okay, this is extremely specialized stuff and I wondered if there's a point to posting it. Well, this mixes the best of the eight cast recordings, made for some of my theatre queen friends (I use that term gender- and orientation-neutrally). Simply, this tape is a scream. It reminds me of the Tom Lehrer and Allan Sherman records I grew up on. Deathless melodies, incisive lyrics, brilliant performances...what more do you need?

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