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Forbidden Broadway (Theatre)
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Forbidden Broadway is a parody revue show written and directed by Gerard Alessandrini that originally ran off-Broadway from 1982 to 2009. The early incarnations of the show spoofed musicals from the Golden Age and iconic performers like Ethel Merman and Carol Channing, but the format was quickly adapted to pastiche works in the current Broadway season. As the revue gained reputation, it became a point of honor in the theatre community to have one's work parodied by Forbidden Broadway; as New York Times chief theatre critic Ben Brantley wrote in his review of the 2000 edition: "such a detailed evisceration happens to be the highest compliment you can give a musical star. It means that there is something there to parody."Forbidden Broadway is typically performed by a cast of two men and two women with piano accompaniment. The show went on hiatus in 2009, but returned to turning out new editions off-Broadway in the summer of 2012. It's also toured the U.S., has yielded two spinoffs, and even made a few trips overseas (some of which with a full symphony orchestra). A spinoff of sorts entitled Spamilton, a parody of Hamilton, opened in 2016. note Please be warned that if you look up "Spamilton" on YouTube, the first results will be videos from the highly-popular fan channel Spamilton, which has a similar mission statement of lovingly parodying Hamilton (in the case of the YouTube channel, it's via a pair of young Canadian women pantomiming to Hamilton songs while wearing giant cardboard cutouts of Lin Manuel Miranda's face), but it and the revue show are otherwise unrelated. Scroll down the results if you wish to find the revue songs. Also — DO NOT confuse with Scamilton, the name given to a Texan church's poorly-written version of the show in 2022. | |
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TheDeterminator | |
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Reading Ahead in the Script | |
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Reading Ahead in the Script: The characters of the RENT parody read ahead in the script for La Bohème to see what they should do next. It isn't that much help, since "This Ain't Bohème." | |
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Mythology Gag | |
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Mythology Gag: Former Forbidden Broadway cast member Tom Plotkin gets specifically mentioned by name in their parody of Footloose. | |
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Small Name, Big Ego | |
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Small Name, Big Ego: From "The Book of Morons": | |
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Straw Critic | |
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Straw Critic: Ben Brantley from the New York Times destroys the car in Ragtime with what he calls "a little review from the boys down at the office." | |
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Former Child Star | |
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Former Child Star: | |
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Actor Allusion | |
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Actor Allusion: invoked Many, especially musical references to the careers of pop singers appearing in musicals. For example: In "I Ham What I Ham", George Hearn fastens a bracelet around his arm and shouts, "At last, my arm is complete again!" (Hearn replaced Len Cariou in the title role in the original production of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street.) When Blood Brothers's Broadway run featured David Cassidy and Petula Clark in leading roles, their 1960s hits "I Think I Love You" and "Downtown" became "I Think I'm Acting" and "Downshow." The parody of the 1996 Broadway revival of The King and I had Donna Murphy playing Anna as her previous character of Fosca from Passion (which closed too quickly to parody on its own). Similarly, in that very same parody, an allusion is made to Lou Diamond Phillips playing the King of Siam in that production. Phillips had previously been known for playing Richie Valens in the movie La Bamba, so a bit of that song is played in the middle of "Shall We Dance" (parodied here as "Shall We Boink?"). The parody of the 2012 Broadway revival of Evita had Ricky Martin singing (what else?) "Livin' Evita Loca". | |
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Trouser Space | |
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Trouser Space: In the Spring Awakening parody, Melchior unzips his fly and pulls out a microphone. | |
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Massive Multiplayer Ensemble Number | |
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Massive Multiplayer Ensemble Number: "One Day More" from Les Misérables is the definitive straight example of the trope. Forbidden Broadway takes it on with just four actors in "Ten Years More" to hilarious results. | |
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We Didn't Start the Billy Joel Parodies | |
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We Didn't Start the Billy Joel Parodies: Shockingly averted. The Movin' Out spoof used "My Life" instead. | |
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Limey Goes to Hollywood | |
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Limey Goes to Hollywood: invoked Discussed in the Judi Dench number, "Why Can't Americans Do Theater Like The Brits?" | |
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Incredibly Long Note | |
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Incredibly Long Note: In their take on "Wheels of a Dream" from Ragtime: | |
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We Used to Be Friends | |
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We Used to Be Friends: Wicked co-stars Kristin Chenoweth and Idina Menzel are not only both "Popular" but bestest friends until Idina wins the Tony Award for Best Actress, after which Idina decides she's gonna try defying Chenoweth. | |
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Strange-Syntax Speaker | |
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Strange-Syntax Speaker: Mag in "How Are Things in Irish Drama?" (Finian's Rainbow's "How Are Things in Glocca Morra?"), the parody of Martin McDonagh's The Beauty Queen of Leenan: | |
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Sincerest Form of Flattery | |
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Sincerest Form of Flattery: The real Carol Channing appears on Volume 3 to get a little advice on her Carol Channing impersonation. | |
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IntercontinuityCrossover | |
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Intercontinuity Crossover: Sometimes they make a bit of sense, like Grand Hotel and The Sound of Music both getting crossed with Cabaret since all three are set in 1930s Germany/Austria, or Matilda and Billy Elliot's child actors lamenting that they're "Exploited Children". Sometimes they just pair up things that were running in the same Broadway season, like Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and Doubt. | |
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Surprise Incest | |
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Surprise Incest: Subverted in the parody of Spring Awakening: | |
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City Shout Outs | |
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City Shout Outs: In "Ambition" (a spoof of "Tradition"), there's a line that on the cast album goes, "But here in our little village of Manhattan, there are over 50,000 actors, all trying their best not to end up in Baltimore." When on tour, "Baltimore" usually gets changed to the town they are performing in. "Look Around (The Schuyler Puppets)" had the cast sing about "all the new shows happening in New York, we said New York..." then they look at how "yucky" the shows are and go "New Yuck!" (Chris Anthony Giles makes a "finger to mouth to cause vomiting motion" in some of the clips of this song being performed.) | |
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That's All, Folks! | |
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That's All, Folks!: Every version of the show ends with one of these, some longer than others. | |
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Fake Crossover | |
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Fake Crossover: Forbidden Broadway: Special Victims Unit opens with versions of Jerry Orbach and B.D. Wong on the case, as both were Broadway and Law & Order stars. | |
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Jukebox Musical | |
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It holds jukebox musicals in universal contempt: | |
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Parody Names | |
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Parody Names: Frequently applied to show titles ("Grand Hotel? Grand Hotel? No, this is the Grim Hotel"), but very rarely applied to characters ("Rafreaky" being one exception), and never to actors. | |
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The Triple | |
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The Triple: From Forbidden Broadway Goes to Rehab: | |
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"I Am" Song | |
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"I Am" Song: Daveed Diggs in Spamilton gets one where he's "Daveed Diggs — The Fresh Prince of Big Hair," which mashes up the theme to The Fresh Prince of Bel Air with "Guns and Ships" from Hamilton, Daveed's big song as Lafayette in Act One. | |
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The Alcoholic | |
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The Alcoholic: "I Wonder What the King is Drinking Tonight" mocked Richard Burton's drinking problems at the time of his return to the role of King Arthur in the 1980 revival of Camelot. | |
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"I Want" Song | |
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"I Want" Song: "Ambition" takes "Tradition" and turns it into an anthem for the struggling actor. "The Film When It Happens" takes "The Room Where It Happens" and turns it to a Questionable Casting worst-case scenario of actors being cast for the movie version of Hamilton. Leslie Odom, Jr. desperately wants to reprise his Tony-award winning role as Aaron Burr, but laments he's "not gonna be" in the Film when it happens. It was jibed that casting would include Johnny Depp as Hamilton, Shia Le Boeuf as Jefferson, hinted Russell Crowe would be cast as Burr instead. | |
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Royalties Heir | |
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Royalties Heir: From Rude Awakening's goof on the short-lived Jukebox Musical Lennon: | |
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Medium Awareness | |
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Medium Awareness | |
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Truck Driver's Gear Change | |
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Truck Driver's Gear Change: Inverted in "I Couldn't Hit The Note" (pastiche of "I Could Have Danced All Night"). Spoofing how Julie Andrews couldn't hit high notes anymore, the song keeps modulating down. This became Harsher in Hindsight when Forbidden Broadway continued to perform the number after Andrews lost most of her range in a botched throat surgery. | |
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Follow the Bouncing Ball | |
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Follow the Bouncing Ball: The sing-along of "Into the Words" has Stephen Sondheim telling the audience to "follow the bouncing razor." | |
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Have I Mentioned I Am Heterosexual Today? | |
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Have I Mentioned I Am Heterosexual Today?: In "The Boy Who's Odd", they imagine Hugh Jackman saying this (almost verbatim) when invited to host the Tony Awards. | |
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Rule of Three | |
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Rule of Three: Spamilton had Lin-Manuel being accosted for Hamilton tickets by three "Beggar Women", but the tickets and the Beggar Women aren't who they claim to be: The first is Bernadette Peters, who'd gotten tickets to "Tuck Neverlasting." The second got tickets to School of Rock and it's Liza Minelli, who goes into her own song, "Down With Rap." The last one got "Two-fers" for "Shuffle Along," which she complains "That show closed after Audra (McDonald) left!" Lin-Manuel recognizes HER as "You're Audra McDonald! The HAS-Been! You haven't won a Tony in months!" | |
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Best Known for the Fanservice | |
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Best Known for the Fanservice: Invoked in "Let Me Enter Naked," where Daniel Radcliffe explains that girls flock to Equus because "Harry Potter naked makes this ol' creaky play sublime." | |
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Misery Poker | |
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Misery Poker: The parody of "It Sucks To Be Me" from Avenue Q has as its contestants Brooke Shields (subbing for Donna Murphy in a Wonderful Town revival), Tom Hewitt (starring in Dracula: The Musical), Stephen Schwartz (always snubbed for the Tony for Best Original Score) and a Japanese Tourist (who sees all the sucky shows New York City has to offer). | |
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Take That! | |
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"Look Around (The Schuyler Puppets)" gets the cast singing about "how yucky shows all are mashing up right now," with three fictional mash ups: "An American Psycho in Paris (a Take That! on the closed American Psycho musical)," "The Lion King and I", and "Avenue Crucible (Avenue Q and The Crucible)" | |
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Everybody Has Lots of Sex | |
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Everybody Has Lots of Sex: The parody of Aspects of Love, "I Sleep With Everyone." | |
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Indecipherable Lyrics | |
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Indecipherable Lyrics: The parody of the 1987 revival of Anything Goes has lyrics to the tune of the show's title song becoming increasingly garbled due to the mushy diction of Patti LuPone. | |
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Better than a Bare Bulb | |
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Better than a Bare Bulb: As always, but in particular the act of hanging a lampshade on the lampshading in "The Song That Goes Like This" from Spamalot, owing to the tendency of post-millenial musical comedies to poke fun at musical conventions and styles — generally, "real" musicals didn't do that when this revue launched. | |
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Troperiffic | |
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Troperiffic | |
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Musical Pastiche | |
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Musical Pastiche | |
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Cover Version | |
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Cover Version: Barbra Streisand and Mandy Patinkin's covers of showtunes are the subject of several parodies. | |
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Every Episode Ending | |
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Every Episode Ending: Almost every installment of Forbidden Broadway ends with a finale explaining how much the writers and cast love Broadway, and how theatre is a fabulous invalid that will, and does, rise from the ashes like a phoenix. And more often than not, their parting words before the final bows are: | |
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Dramatic Unmask | |
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Dramatic Unmask: Andrew Lloyd Webber, the "Phantom of the Musical," is revealed to be Mickey Mouse when Sarah Brightman rips off his mask. For this, he has her Killed to Uphold the Masquerade by crushing her under the Falling Chandelier of Doom. | |
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Race Lift | |
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Race Lift: Equity president Colleen Dewhurst, who protested the casting of Jonathan Pryce in Miss Saigon (and, unfortunately for the parody, died not that many months later), was played by African-American actress Mary Denise Bentley. | |
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Painted-On Pants | |
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Painted-On Pants: The RENT parody includes a song called "Ouch, They're Tight!" | |
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Spin-Off | |
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Spinoff: Forbidden Hollywood in The '90s and Forbidden Vegas at the Turn of the Millennium. In 2016, 'Spamilton: An American Parody. The Lastof Theseis Not Like The Others: Spamilton is mostly based off of Hamilton instead of just a song or two (as Gerard Allesandrini said, "This is not 'Forbidden Broadway with Hamilton in it, this is Hamilton with Forbidden Broadway in it!" It also has a story in it where it gives a fictional account of how Lin-Manuel Miranda revitalized Broadway with Hamilton. | |
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Adolf Hitlarious | |
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As with the Adolf Hitlarious bit in Comes Out Swinging, the earlier edition Rude Awakening compares the increasing corporate sponsorship of Broadway with Nazification. | |
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Intercourse with You | |
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Intercourse with You: "Shall We Boink?", with Donna Murphy and Lou Diamond Phillips trying to make The King and I Hotter and Sexier. | |
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Camp | |
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Camp: "You Can't Stop the Camp" mocks Hairspray, Xanadu, and similar shows. | |
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Height Angst | |
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Height Angst: Elaine Paige as Norma Desmond (in Forbidden Broadway Strikes Back): | |
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Bad "Bad Acting" | |
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Bad "Bad Acting": David Mamet tries to teach Madonna how to act in Speed-the-Plow, and doesn't make much headway: "I strain in vain to train Madonna's brain." | |
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Brainless Beauty | |
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Brainless Beauty: John Davidson, as mocked for his State Fair performance in "Oh, What A Beautiful Moron." | |
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Rage Against the Author | |
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Rage Against the Author: "Forbidden Assassins" has John Hinkley and Squeaky Fromme aiming their guns at Stephen Sondheim for writing music and lyrics too difficult for them to perform. | |
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Charlie and the Chocolate Parody | |
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Charlie and the Chocolate Parody: The 2014 London edition spoofs the 2013 stage musical adaptation of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory — which incorporates the most famous song from the 1971 film version, "Pure Imagination", into an otherwise new song score — with "No Imagination". Gags include West End musical stalwart Elaine Paige turning up as an Oompa-Loompa (see Height Angst below for more on her), a malfunctioning Great Glass Elevator, and an unflattering comparison with Matilda (another Roald Dahl adaptation). Later productions of Spamilton replace "An American Psycho in Paris" bit in "Look Around (The Schuyler Puppets)" with "Dolly and the Chocolate Factory," which reuses "No Imagination". | |
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The Abridged Series | |
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The Abridged Series: Predating even The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged). | |
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