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San Ramon Performing Arts brings New York's longest-running musical comedy revue, "Forbidden Broadway," to the Dougherty Valley Performing Arts Center on Saturday. "Forbidden Broadway," which the "Today" show called "Broadway's Saturday Night Live," is a comic history of the Great White Way -- a wide avenue in New York City -- poking fun and revisiting everything from this year's Tony Award winners to grand old chestnuts.

"Forbidden Broadway" began in a supper club in New York City in January of 1982 by an out-of-work actor, Gerard Alessandrini. Enlisting some of his actor friends, they created a hip show that became a must-see by the very performers being roasted. The show still runs ...

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