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Article: `Forbidden Broadway' punctures pretense.(VARIETY)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
- Article date:
- June 4, 1999
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1/3 It's one thing to satirize Broadway shows and performers as "Forbidden Broadway" has done so successfully - and so wickedly - over the past 17 years.
It's quite another when the person you're poking fun at is sitting in the theater. John Freedson, a former actor who has produced and directed editions of "Forbidden Broadway" both in New York and on the road - including the performance of "The Best of Forbidden Broadway" that will be given in Minneapolis Sunday while the Tony Awards are being broadcast live on TV - recalls the time in Los Angeles when Glenn Close watched a spoof of herself playing the aging silent screen actress Norma Desmond in the ...
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