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D.C.'s Impish Forbidden Broadway
Section: THE ARTS / THEATER
Author: Jeff Church
Publication: The world & I online
Issue Date: 1/1/1986
Size: 815 Words, 4,724 Characters

AS Washington theatergoers enter the well-mannered Marquee Lounge at the Omni Shoreham Hotel to see five players do a club-act indictment of hit musicals called Forbidden Broadway, they are expected to partake in a rather lush evening, sitting in pretty chairs, and also to submit to drink minimums. This atmosphere might be fine for a high brow collection of Noel Coward songs, but it seems ironically inappropriate to house a funny, spiteful little musical with an underlying theme concerning the dismay of off-broadway actors with the kind of thing that sells on Broadway. Now maybe the...

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...BROADWAY, conceived by Gerard Allesandrini plays in Washington, D.C.'s Shoreham Hotel in the Marquee Lounge into January, Tues. through Sunday; tickets--phone (202) 745-0030. Additional companies now playing at Boston's park Plaza Hotel and the Hotel Continental in Chicago. Opens this spring in London and several other cities. (Updated New York production at Palsson's 158 West 72nd Street.)



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The World & I Online is a comprehensive academic resource that encompasses a broad range of articles by scholars and experts in the areas of Global Studies, Liberal Arts, Fine & Applied Arts, General Science, and Spanish. Originally published monthly in print as The World & I, our site includes the complete contents since 1986 and continues to publish a new issue online each month.
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