Gerard Alessandrini News

The Broadway Beauty Pageant is TONIGHT, Monday, March 21st, 2011 at 8:00 PM, benefiting The Ali Forney Center, NYC's primary housing resource for homeless LGBT youth.

Le Petit Theatre brings the long-running Tony Award-winning revue FORBIDDEN BROADWAY to the Main Stage November 5-19. This hilarious and ever-evolving show, tailored for New Orleans audiences, features parodies of hits and hitmakers old and new that will strike the funny bone of even those with only the most glancing knowledge of the Great White Way. And for even the most hardened aficionado, it's fall-down funny. Cast members Leslie Castay, Dianna Duffy, Vatican Lokey and Cliff Thompson - accompanied by one-man-piano-orchestra Jesse Reeks - sing and dance their way through rapid-fire costume changes and madcap impressions in a loving satire of Broadway's biggest songwriters and stars.

Amas Musical Theatre (Donna Trinkoff/Producing Artistic Director) is launching a new program series called "The Amas Musical Theatre Song Salon", with inaugural guest Gerard Alessandrini, Tony Award-winning creator of Forbidden Broadway.

Amas Musical Theatre (Donna Trinkoff/Producing Artistic Director) announced the cast accompanying Forbidden Broadway's Gerard Alessandrini in the launch of the 'The Amas Musical Theatre Song Salon'. They include several Broadway and Forbidden Broadway veterans including: Cristina Bianco (2009 Drama Desk Nominee for Best Supporting Actress in a Musical-Forbidden Broadway: Goes to Rehab), Donna English (Lend Me A Tenor, Forbidden Broadway SVU: Special Victims Unit), Gina Kreiezmar (several Forbidden Broadways), and Kevin B. McGlynn (National tours of Kiss Me Kate and All Shook Up and several Forbidden Broadways).

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 2010 - THE AMERICAN SONG SALON with Special Guest GERARD ALESSANDRINI creator of FORBIDDEN BROADWAY

Le Petit Theatre brings the long-running Tony Award-winning revue FORBIDDEN BROADWAY to the Main Stage November 5-19. This hilarious and ever-evolving show, tailored for New Orleans audiences, features parodies of hits and hitmakers old and new that will strike the funny bone of even those with only the most glancing knowledge of the Great White Way. And for even the most hardened aficionado, it's fall-down funny. Cast members Leslie Castay, Dianna Duffy, Vatican Lokey and Cliff Thompson - accompanied by one-man-piano-orchestra Jesse Reeks - sing and dance their way through rapid-fire costume changes and madcap impressions in a loving satire of Broadway's biggest songwriters and stars.

Amas Musical Theatre (Donna Trinkoff/Producing Artistic Director) is launching a new program series called "The Amas Musical Theatre Song Salon", with inaugural guest Gerard Alessandrini, Tony Award-winning creator of Forbidden Broadway.

THE AMERICAN SONG SALON with Special Guest GERARD ALESSANDRINI creator of FORBIDDEN BROADWAY

Amas Musical Theatre (Donna Trinkoff/Producing Artistic Director) will present free staged readings of "Nellie Beezer's Melting Pot Follies of 1922", a new musical written by Phillip George (co-creator of SHOUT! The Mod Musical and long-time co-director of Forbidden Broadway) and Kathy Griffith, with additional material by Gerard Alessandrini (Forbidden Broadway) and David Caldwell.

Amas Musical Theatre will present free staged readings of NELLIE BEEZER'S MELTING POT FOLLIES OF 1922, a new musical written by Phillip George and Kathy Griffith, with additional material by Gerard Alessandrini and David Caldwell. The readings, also directed by Phillip George, will take place on Monday, October 11th at 6:00pm, and Tuesday, October 12th at 3:00pm and 7:00pm, at Ripley-Grier Studios, 520 Eighth Avenue (10th Floor).

Amas Musical Theatre (Donna Trinkoff/Producing Artistic Director) will present free staged readings of "Nellie Beezer's Melting Pot Follies of 1922", a new musical written by Phillip George (co-creator of SHOUT! The Mod Musical and long-time co-director of Forbidden Broadway) and Kathy Griffith, with additional material by Gerard Alessandrini (Forbidden Broadway) and David Caldwell.

The Fourth Annual Fire Island Pines Literary and Theater Weekend Presented by Ben Hodges The 28th Anniversary Celebration of Forbidden Broadway

The Fourth Annual Fire Island Pines Literary and Theater Weekend Presented by Ben Hodges The 28th Anniversary Celebration of Forbidden Broadway

Amas Musical Theatre will present free staged readings of NELLIE BEEZER'S MELTING POT FOLLIES OF 1922, a new musical written by Phillip George and Kathy Griffith, with additional material by Gerard Alessandrini and David Caldwell. The readings, also directed by Phillip George, will take place on Monday, October 11th at 6:00pm, and Tuesday, October 12th at 3:00pm and 7:00pm, at Ripley-Grier Studios, 520 Eighth Avenue (10th Floor).

Amas Musical Theatre (Donna Trinkoff/Producing Artistic Director) will present free staged readings of "Nellie Beezer's Melting Pot Follies of 1922", a new musical written by Phillip George (co-creator of SHOUT! The Mod Musical and long-time co-director of Forbidden Broadway) and Kathy Griffith, with additional material by Gerard Alessandrini (Forbidden Broadway) and David Caldwell.

Uptown Players continues its 2010 season with the regional premiere of the hysterical musical parody, Forbidden Broadway's Greatest Hits, at the historic Kalita Humphreys Theater, former home of the Dallas Theater Center.

Uptown Players continues its 2010 season with the regional premiere of the hysterical musical parody, Forbidden Broadway's Greatest Hits, at the historic Kalita Humphreys Theater, former home of the Dallas Theater Center.

Uptown Players continues its 2010 season with the regional premiere of the hysterical musical parody, Forbidden Broadway's Greatest Hits, at the historic Kalita Humphreys Theater, former home of the Dallas Theater Center.

3A Productions has announced a one-week run for All That Might Happen by John Philip and directed by Michael Portantiere. Originally scheduled through Saturday, March 6, the limited engagement will now play through Saturday, March 13 at Manhattan Theatre Source (177 MacDougal St.).

Brandon Ruckdashel has joined the cast of 3A Productions' All That Might Happen by John Philip and directed by Michael Portantiere, February 19 through March 6, 2010 at Manhattan Theatre Source (177 MacDougal St.).