Forbidden Broadway: Behind the Mylar Curtain (43 page)

Susanne Blakeslee, Herndon Lackey, Mary Denise
Bentley, and Jeff Lyons have a go at Miss-cast Saigon.

Clockise from top left: The tenthanniversary cast: Alix Korey, Patrick
Quinn, Leah Hocking, and Michael
McGrath; Christine Pedi, Brad Oscar,
Susanne Blakeslee, and Craig Wells:
Forbidden Broadway '93; Phillip George,
co-director of Forbidden Broadway.

Gerard with the cast of Forbidden Broadway 1991: Herndon Lackey (as "Swill
Rogers"), Susanne Blakeslee (in "The Secret Deodorant Garden"), Jeff Lyons (again
forced to play Lea Salonga), and Mary Denise Bentley (in Once on This Island).

Forbidden Broadway around the world.

Forbidden Broadway in Boston, Japan, and L.A.

Clockwise from top left: Chloe and Nora dress Bill in the busboys' area
at Palsson's; Dee Hoty modeling her Evita costume; Rachel lames, our
stage manager's daughter, learned to sing "I Sleep with Everyone" for
her second-grade class; and Dorothy Kiara, relegated to "Forbidden
Fantine" after having starred on Broadway in Nine.

Clockwise from top left: Gerard, dressed and hyped to play Kurt in "The Sound of Music Part II"; Danny Gurwin and Felicia
Finley, so crammed backstage at Forbidden Broadway 2001 that they are forced to have sex in their Aida costumes; Andrea
McArdle, the original Annie, gets into character backstage to play Forbidden Annie at a benefit; Phill George as King Arthur
prepares to sing "I Wonder What the King is Drinking Tonight?"; Nora and Gerard backstage.

Donna English (as Beauty) and Bryan Batt (as the Beast)
display Disney's new design for the Tony Award.

Donna English, as Glenn Close in Sunset Boulevard, gets a
"Master Class" in singing from Patti LuPone in the person
of Christine Pedi.

Gerard surrounded by his Cats/Chorus Line cast. Clockwise from top left: Bryan Batt,
Christine Pedi, David Hibbard, and Donna English.