PhotosPHOTO EXCLUSIVE: "Carrie! Liza! Kelli! Cyndi!" A Two-Show Day With Forbidden Broadway Comes Out Swinging! Star Carter CalvertThe latest edition of Gerard Alessandrini’s Forbidden Broadway plays the Davenport Theatre. Cast member and hardworking mom Carter Calvert, who plays characters ranging from Liza to Carrie Underwood, shares a recent day spoofing the Great White Way.
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June 26, 2014
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PHOTO EXCLUSIVE: A Two-Show Day With Forbidden Broadway Comes Out Swinging! Star Carter Calvert
PHOTO EXCLUSIVE: A Two-Show Day With Forbidden Broadway Comes Out Swinging! Star Carter Calvert
The latest edition of Gerard Alessandrini’s Forbidden Broadway plays the Davenport Theatre. Cast member and hardworking mom Carter Calvert, who plays characters ranging from Liza to Carrie Underwood, shares a recent day spoofing the Great White Way.
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9:37am My furry alarm clock, Miles.
Carter Calvert
9:50am My loves!
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9:51am My sweet daughter, Ella. She knows not to wake Mommy before 9:30am on a 2-show day. #bestgirlever
Carter Calvert
10:02am Where's Miles?
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10:02am Ready for my walk!
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10:05am GORGEOUS day!
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10:06am SALVATION!!!!!
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10:31am Martha Stewart (If Martha Stewart made muffins out of a box).
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10:33am Sous chef
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10:55am My reason
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11:08am Take that, Betty Crocker!!!!
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11:13am A DIVA's work is never done!!
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11:22am Brunch outside with my favorite dining companion!
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11:31am ALREADY!!!!!! I'm running late!!!!!
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11:32 am GOTTA STEAM!!!
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12:26pm Showered, steamed and on the 4 train!!!
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1:04pm Walking from Grand Central to the Davenport! Gets the blood pumping!!!
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1:34pm Looks like the beautiful Samantha Owen is on for Mia today. We are gonna laugh a lot!!!
Carter Calvert
1:43pm Making the MAGIC happen!
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1:43pm Sometimes seeing the "magic" happen is confusing. And upsetting.
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1:44pm Nothing shocks our musical director, David Caldwell!
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2:04pm Me with my boys!!!
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2:05pm It's SHOWTIME!
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2:21pm Marcus Stevens as Jason Robert Brown KILLIN' it!!
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2:31pm "Not really" Carole King...
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2:37pm Make way for Disney cheer, Say Hey Aladdin's here!!!!
Carter Calvert
2:37pm The Rocky Sketch or A Night at the Improv!! This always makes me laugh out loud!!!!
2:38pm Serial killer's dressing table or female performer's in Forbidden Broadway?
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2:40pm Samantha let's it BLOW!
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2:41pm The "view" from my office
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2:52pm Fantine-ish.
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3:03pm Intermission
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3:17pm Carrie Underwood
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3:31pm Michelle Williams wished she looked THIS good!!!
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3:43pm Scott Richard Foster getting in touch with his feminine side
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5:24pm Finishing up lunch at Carmine's with our good friends the Eckmans. Everything was fine until someone decides to order the Titanic! The handsome fellow wearing the orange cap is my hubby, Roger Cohen.
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6:47pm I dropped my husband off at Grand Central and now I need to walk off the Titanic. Is it ok to call out FULL?!
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7:46pm So much for the privacy curtain.
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8:21pm Bridges may be closed but Kelli O'Hara shows up 8x a week at the Davenport!
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8:21pm Samantha is getting pumped up for the Jukebox Medley!!
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8:21pm Steven Pasquale, come in come in! Take off your shirt!
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8:22pm The 5th cast member makes an early appearance.
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8:37pm Our fabulous dresser Geena makes EVERYTHING better!!!
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8:42pm Scott and I amusing ourselves backstage
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8:49 Thank the Lord for the Les Miz medley
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9:11pm TRIPLE threat!!!!!
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9:11pm Big red beard!
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9:24pm This is how dumb we actors are!
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9:33pm "Liza" with Geena!!! She is truly terrific.
Carter Calvert
9:43pm Cyndi Lauper with Hedwig. He sure looks angry!
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10:08pm Walking to the train station. NYC you are magical!!
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11:28pm Finding out my car had been broken into.
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#buzzkill
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11:33pm But hugs from a Beagle makes everything better.
Following a 10-month hiatus, Forbidden Broadway resumed performances Feb. 22. The new edition began previews March 17 prior to an official opening May 4. It will conclude its run July 20.
Forbidden Broadway is currently playing a limited run at London's Menier Chocolate Factory through Aug. 20. The show will also play a limited engagement at Feinstein’s in San Francisco July 10-27.
The latest incarnation of the long-running Broadway spoof features Carter Calvert, Scott Richard Foster, Mia Gentile and Marcus Stevens with David Caldwell on piano. (Jeanne Montano will take over for Calvert at a date soon to be announced.)
Forbidden Broadway is created and written by Alessandrini and directed by Phillip George and Alessandrini with musical direction by David Caldwell, set by Megan K. Halpern, lighting by Mark T. Simpson, costumes by Dustin Cross and Philip Heckman, sound by Matt Kraus and wigs by Bobbie Cliffton Zlotnick.
The show is produced by John Freedson, Harriet Yellin and Paul Bartz, in association with Paul G. Rice, Carol Ostrow, Paxton Quigley and Robert Driemeyer, Jamie DeRoy, Lawrence Poster and Tweiss Productions.
Show times are Mondays and Tuesdays at 7 PM, Fridays and Saturdays at 8 PM, Sundays at 7 PM with matinees Wednesdays and Saturdays at 2 PM and Sundays at 3 PM.
Tickets can be purchased by calling Telecharge at (212) 239-6200 or by visiting telecharge.com. Davenport Theatre is located at 354 W. 45th Street, between 8th and 9th Avenues.
