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'Rude Awakening' for Broadway

Few, if any, theater reviews survive for posterity. And few, if any, musical revues survive in their entirety. But "Forbidden Broadway," the long-running Off-Broadway spoof of Broadway musicals, is likely to live on years from now as an unflinching social history of Broadway via Gerard Alessandrini's lyrics and parody concepts.

"Rude Awakening," the revue's newest edition, takes shots at...

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