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SAMUELI THEATER October 1 – 4, 2015

Thursday – Saturday at 7:30 p.m.Sunday at 6:30 p.m.

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About the Artists

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GINA KREIEZMAR (Performer) Gina has been a part of the FB phenomenon since 1992, performing Forbidden Broadway and Forbidden Hollywood in Manhattan, throughout the 50 states, Singapore, Japan, South Africa and parts of South America! She has also had the honor performing several versions of FB with orchestras and symphonies can be heard in the DGR cast recording of Forbidden Broadway goes to Rehab. Other credits include Evita (Eva Perón), club dates at New York’s famed Rainbow Room in Rockefeller Center, and numerous commercials and voiceovers. A Florida native, she graduated from the University of Miami School of Music and The Burt Reynolds Institute for Theater Training in Jupiter Florida, where she worked with and was directed by such notables as Charles Nelson Reilly, Carol Burnett, Liza Minnelli and Burt Reynolds. Her longest production is her marriage to her husband, Bob Goodman, and their most treasured collaboration Max Tyler. Thank You Forbidden Broadway for all the laughs and memories!

KEVIN B. McGLYNN (Performer) a native of Medford MA and a graduate of The Boston Conservatory, has performed Forbidden Broadway both nationally and internationally. He has just finished filming the upcoming mystery Annabelle Hooper and the Ghosts of Nantucket starring Bailee Madison and he is about to star as Louis B Mayer in the first ever production of Chasing Rainbows chronicling the early years of Judy Garland’s life slated for an upcoming Broadway run. He was recently named Best Actor by Broadway World for his portrayal of Javert in Les Misérables at The Ocean State Theatre as well as winning The Outstanding Performer Award for his performance in Flambe Dreams at The New York Musical Theatre Festival. Kevin has criss-crossed these United States on the first nation-al tours of Kiss Me Kate, All Shook Up and Forbidden Broadway. Regional credits include Scrooge in A Christmas Carol, Nathan Detroit in Guys and Dolls and Lumiere in Beauty and the Beast. Many thanks to family and friends for their CONSTANT love and support, espe-cially my Dad and My Guardian Angel Mom.

TRISHA RAPIER (Performer) Broadway: Sister Act (Mary Martin of Tours, u/s and performed for Victoria Clark and Carolee Carmello as Mother Superior), The Boy From Oz starring Hugh Jackman (Liza Minnelli u/s and performed). Off-Broadway: Sessions (Mary), Her Song at Birdland, Shout! The Mod Musical, Nerds:// A Musical Software Satire (Myrtle), NEWSical the Musical (Trisha), Golf: The Musical (Trisha), Pirates of Penzance (Mabel), Forbidden Broadway (Julie Andrews, Barbra Streisand, etc.). Tours: The Who’s Tommy (Mrs. Walker u/s and performed), Forbidden Hollywood (Marlene Dietrich, Nicole Kidman, etc.). Regional: And the World Goes ‘Round (Woman 1), Play It By Heart (Jeannine Jasper), Date of a Lifetime (Katie Clemmons), Next to Normal (Diana), Xanadu (Melpomene), Closer Than Ever (Woman 1), Crazy For You (Irene Roth), My Ohio (Bonnie Bell), Caroline, or Change (Rose Stopnick), The Full Monty (Vicki Nichols) Evita (Eva), Cabaret (Sally Bowles) Miss Saigon (Ellen), Little Shop of Horrors (Audrey), Guys and Dolls (Adelaide), Agnes of God (Agnes). Opera: The Magic Flute (Pamina), The Combat of Tancredi and Clorinda (Clorinda). Television: Delocated on Adult Swim. Numerous con-certs and workshops including most recent: Treasure Island, a new musical, Finding Nemo,

The Musical, for Disney Theatricals and Enter Laughing at the York Theater. Awards: Carol Burnett Award, Spotlight Award of the Los Angeles Music Center. Bachelor of Music degree from the University of California at Los Angeles. www.TrishaRapier.com

MARCUS STEVENS (Performer) is thrilled to be returning to Forbidden Broadway after performing in the original cast of Forbidden Broadway: Alive and Kicking! at the 47th Street Theatre Off-Broadway. A graduate of Point Park University, Marcus has had the opportu-nity to work at many great theatres including The Walnut Street Theatre, The Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera, The Pittsburgh Public Theater, Sacramento Music Circus and The Kennedy Center. Favorite roles include Motel in Fiddler on the Roof, Sparky in Forever Plaid, Jamie in The Last Five Years, and the title role in Floyd Collins. In addition to acting, Marcus is a Richard Rodgers Award-winning lyricist/librettist whose musicals have been pro-duced in Pittsburgh, California, Philadelphia, Canada, and New York. Marcus has also start-ed his own acting coaching company, SACAP, dedicated to helping young actors find and develop audition material. For more informa-tion, see www.marcus-stevens.com. Much love to Mom, Dad, Rachel and Julia!

CATHERINE STORNETTA (Musical Director) has been a musical director for Forbidden Broadway, Forbidden Hollywood, and Forbidden Christmas for many years and has performed all over the country, all around the world, and on cruise ships cir-cumnavigating the globe. She has orchestrated both Forbidden Broadway and Forbidden Christmas and as a result has conducted the Detroit, Hartford, Winnipeg, North Carolina, Rochester, Syracuse, and Adelaide (Australia) symphonies. She was the musical director for the three-year run of Menopause, The Musical in Boston. She composed the score for the Cable ACE-award winning documentary Christa McAuliffe, Teacher in Space, produced for the Arts and Entertainment Network “Biography” series, and she has arranged and written music for several shows: Intriguing People (for People magazine), 12 Angry Reindeer, and All-of-a-Kind Family, as well as shows with the Unione Parke Singers, Reindeer Games and Seasons. She is currently a resident musical director at The Lyric Stage in Boston where she has been the musical director for Animal Crackers, Ain’t Misbehavin’, Avenue Q (IRNE & Elliot Norton awards), 33 Variations, and One Man, Two Guvnors, City of Angels, and My Fair Lady. In her salad days, she was a student of Darius Milhaud and Claude Frank, and occasionally, a piano soloist with the Boston Pops. She is, as always, thrilled to be back in California, land of her ancestors.

CATHERINE BLOCH (Stage Manager) is delighted to be working with Forbidden Broadway again. She also tours with the very funny Forbidden Hollywood. She spent this summer at the Sundance Institute Theatre Lab and two summers with the O’Neill Playwrights Conference

GERARD ALESSANDRINI (Creator, Writer & Director) is best known for writing and directing all the editions of Forbidden Broadway and Forbidden Hollywood in New York, Los Angeles, London and around the world. He was also a member of the original cast of Forbidden Broadway. Gerard is from Needham, Massachusetts and the Boston area, where he graduated from the Boston Conservatory of Music. In 1982, he created Forbidden Broadway, which has spawned 15

editions, 8 cast albums and a 25-year-and-counting run in New York. Television credits include writing comedy specials for Bob Hope and Angela Lansbury on NBC, Carol Burnett on CBS and Masterpiece Tonight, a satirical revue saluting Masterpiece Theatre on PBS. He can be heard on four of the eight FB cast albums and on the soundtracks of Disney’s Aladdin and Pocahontas. Directing credits include many corporate industrials and regional musicals, including a production of Maury Yeston’s musical In the Beginning. Gerard also co-directed a revival of Irving Berlin’s last musical Mr. President, which he updated & “politically corrected.” Gerard is the recipient of an Obie Award, an Outer Critics Circle Award, two Lucille Lortel Awards, a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Drama League and three Drama Desk Awards for Best Lyrics for Forbidden Broadway. Most recently, Gerard received a 2006 Tony Honor for Excellence in the Theatre.

PHILLIP GEORGE (Director). As director Off-Broadway: Shout!, Forbidden Broadway: SVU, Forbidden Hollywood, Whoop-Dee-Doo (Drama Desk Award, Best Musical Revue), Forbidden Broadway Twentieth Anniversary Edition, Forbidden Broadway Cleans Up Its Act, Forbidden Broadway Strikes Back, Forbidden Broadway 2001: A Spoof Odyssey (Drama Desk Award, Best Musical Revue), The Remarkable Ruth Fields (1993 Bistro Award, Best Musical Best Director), When Pigs Fly (as Assoc. Director to Mark Waldrop), Blackout (Amas), Bring Me a Dwarf (Wing & Drop Co.), Miss Pretty Hard (Dance Theater Workshop with Katherine Griffith), Forbidden Broadway 1988–93. London: Kean (nomi-nated for Evening Standard Award, Best New Musical); Forbidden Broadway (The Albery, West End); Shout!; Frankly, Scarlet (co-author with Peter Morris); Listen to the Wind; Much Revue About Nothing; Forbidden Broadway; The Famous Five; The Arcadians; Escape from Pterodactyl Island (1999 Michael Steward Award). Regionally: Forum (5th Ave Theatre, Seattle), Best Little Whorehouse, Footloose, Return to the Forbidden Planet, Annie Get Your Gun, The Secret Garden (Paper Mill). Currently Artistic Director: Wing & Drop Co. Club Acts: Ruben Flores, Randall Frizado, Chris DiCristo.

ALVIN COLT’s (Costume Design) costumes have been represented in 88 Broadway shows which include the original productions of On the Town and Guys and Dolls, plus Li’l Abner, Fanny, Destry Rides Again, Sugar, Pipe Dream, Wildcat, Lorelei, Greenwillow and numer-ous others. A Tony® Award winner, he has also been nominated four times for both the Tony Award and television’s Emmy® Award, having designed costumes for over 90 pro-grams on all major networks. Mr. Colt is the recipient of TDF’s Irene Sharaff’s Award in costume design, and received a Drama Desk nomination for Forbidden Broadway. He was inducted into the Theatre Hall of Fame in 2001. Recently, The Museum of the City of New York celebrated Mr. Colt’s work with “Costumes and Characters: The Designs of Alvin Colt.”

JOHN FREEDSON (Producer) has been asso-ciated with Forbidden Broadway for most of its 30-year history and has produced the spe-cial Tony-awarded New York company since 1994. John is also producer of the current national tour of the Off-Broadway hit I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change. With his partner Harriet Yellin, he produced Forbidden Broadway at London’s Menier Chocolate Factory and subsequent West End produc-tion, in LA, San Diego, Detroit, Denver and on tour, as well as Forbidden Hollywood in LA, Japan and Off-Broadway. He has directed both shows to acclaim around the world, win-ning Jefferson Award for Best Direction for the Chicago production of FH. Mr. Freedson co-produced 10 Forbidden Broadway CDs for DRG records and, long-ago, appeared in the Off-Broadway and Boston productions. As a composer/lyricist, he wrote three hit children’s musicals: A Swan is Born, Aesop’s Follies and Country Mouse/City Mouse, which toured with the New England Theatre Guild. His voice can be heard on numerous radio and television spots and jingles, two Forbidden Broadway CDs and Disney’s Aladdin. Originally from Reading PA, Mr. Freedson attended the Boston Conservatory and is a graduate of Brandeis University.

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HARRIET YELLIN (Producer) has been involved with Forbidden Broadway since 1984, when she produced and managed Forbidden Broadway in Boston, which ran for over six years, as well as the Los Angeles, San Diego, Washington, D.C., Detroit, and Denver pro-ductions of the show. With John Freedson, she is co-producer of the current run of Forbidden Broadway in New York, as well as previous New York editions since 1995. She was also co-producer of Forbidden Hollywood in Los Angeles, Chicago, Japan and New York. She was co-producer and General Manager of Forever Plaid’s four-year run in Boston, and spent over 15 years with Blue Man Group, first as General Manager of Blue Man’s smash engagement in Boston, later as CFO of what grew to become an international organiza-tion with 7 shows and over 700 employees during her tenure. In another long-ago life, she was a high-powered political consultant; she has worked for numerous senatorial and gubernatorial candidates and was National Media Director for the Dukakis and Tsongas Presidential campaigns.

FORBIDDEN BROADWAY AND FORBIDDEN HOLLYWOODForbidden Broadway was first seen at Palsson’s Supper Club on New York’s Upper West Side in January, 1982. What began as a simple cabaret act to give creator/lyricist Gerard Alessandrini a showcase for his talents and the opportunity to “find an agent” became New York’s longest running musical comedy revue. Hailed by critics and audiences alike, Forbidden Broadway won Drama Desk, Obie and Outer Critics Circle awards and captured the heart of the theatre industry itself. Many of its legendary “victims,” including Mary Martin, Ethel Merman, Bernadette Peters, Tommy Tune, Angela Lansbury, Stephen Sondheim, Hal Prince, and Andrew Lloyd Webber, were among the celebrities who stopped by to applaud first-hand. Updated regularly for each new theatre season, Forbidden Broadway ran to packed houses at the 75-seat Palsson’s through August, 1987. In September, 1988, the show re-opened at the 125-seat Theatre East, where it ran an additional 5-1/2 years. The show also became known for talented but as yet unknown actors, many of whom

have gone on to stardom in various venues: Jason Alexander (Seinfeld’s George Costanza), Chloe Webb (Twins and the PBS series Tales of the City), Davis Gaines (Phantom), as well as Roxie Lucas (Damn Yankees), Gregg Edelman (City of Angels), Dee Hoty (Will Rogers Follies), Michael McGrath (Spamalot, The Martin Short Show), and Brad Oscar (The Producers). Forbidden Broadway’s success was repeated in Boston, where it enjoyed a 6-1/2-year stay at the 250-seat Terrace Room; Chicago and Boca Raton (over two years each), Toronto and Philadelphia (one year each), Kansas City (nine months and two return engage-ments), Denver (six months), San Diego (two engagements including Forbidden Christmas), a record-breaking run in 1994 at the Tiffany Theatre in Los Angeles, Sydney, Tokyo, and Singapore among many others. In 1999, after a sell-out engagement at London’s Jermyn Street Theatre, it transferred for the summer to the famed Albery Theatre in the West End. Forbidden Broadway’s return to the Tiffany Theatre in Los Angeles in the spring of 2000 garnered two more Ovation Awards. Mr. Alessandrini’s next spoof, Forbidden Hollywood, first appeared as a section of Forbidden Broadway in Boston in 1989. After several years of work on the project, the full length version previewed in San Diego, then opened in Los Angeles in March, 1995. The run at the Coronet Theatre delighted audi-ences for nearly a year and was nominated for seven Ovation Awards. Whoopi Goldberg, Carol Channing, and many other luminaries of the “industry” showed up to see themselves and their friends lovingly parodied. The show was subsequently produced in Chicago (which garnered three Jefferson Award nominations), Kansas City (a record-breaking run), and Toronto. It was updated for New York and ran off-Broadway in 1996, and has had numerous successful runs across America since that time. In the fall of 1996, the Forbidden crew, including John Freedson and Harriet Yellin (producers), Phill George (Associate Director), and of course, writer-director Gerard Alessandrini, turned their attention back to their first love: Broadway. A new edition of the show, Forbidden Broadway Strikes Back! returned to New York and its original home on West 72nd (now called the Triad and expand-ed to 135 seats), where it once again delighted

audiences with its fast-paced spoofs of current Broadway shows and stars. The return of FB was again greeted with raves from critics (The New York Times called it “triumphant”) and the show won the Drama Desk, Lucille Lortel, and Drama League Awards. Bob Hope, Bea Arthur, Stephen Sondheim, Angela Lansbury, Savion Glover, George C. Wolfe, Elaine Paige, Rosie O’Donnell, Dame Maggie Smith and the casts of Lion King, Aida, and Rent are among the recent attendees. The show moved to the Douglas Fairbanks Theatre on 42nd Street with a brand new edition, Forbidden Broadway 2001: A Spoof Odyssey, which won the 2001 Drama Desk Award for Best Revue. Forbidden Broadway’s 20th Anniversary Edition was fol-lowed by Forbidden Broadway: SVU, which won yet another Drama Desk Award for Best Musical Revue in 2005. In 2006, the show was recognized with a Tony Honors Award, for being an integral part of the theatre com-munity for over 25 years. Most recently, after a three-year hiatus, a new edition, Forbidden Broadway: Alive and Kicking opened in New York garnering rave reviews once again from almost every media outlet (this time, The New York Times called it “a godsend”). The 2014 London edition had a sell-out run at the Menier Chocolate Factory, followed by an extended move to London’s West End. As long as there’s a Broadway, Forbidden Broadway will be there, poking, prodding, teasing, pleas-ing, jeering and cheering, but always, with love.

The actors and stage managers employed in this production are members of Actors Equity Association, the union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States