It took two years from the show's inception to obtain the rights for the numbers on the original 1984 album; the omissions and substitutions were eventually recorded for the subsequent albums, by which time the original songwriters had warmed to the whole scandalous notion. (I sing and play on this one).

Volume Two features the welcome addition of Toni DiBuono to the Forbidden Broadway company; she won the Drama Desk Award for her performance, in her New York debut, and her tracks here are worth the price of admission alone.  This album contains my "Chita/Rita" arrangement, and the infamous "Les Miz" epic parody.

Carol Channing, a huge fan of the show, makes a guest appearance on this volume, which also happily preserves the original Merman/Martin routine I had helped devise back in 1981, with the incomparable Nora Mae Lyng, whose Merman caricature helped catapult the show to fame to begin with.

Forbidden Broadway Strikes Back is Volume Four in the unstoppable series.  I was long gone by then, so I can't vouch for it, but the celebrated Christine Pedi had joined the company by then, so I'll bet it's pretty good.

Volume Five (Forbidden Broadway Cleans Up Its Act) catches up with the new generation of Broadway shows, including The Lion King, Ragtime, and Titanic, and includes the lyrics printed out for you sing-a-long buffs.

I don't know what they're calling Volume Six, but this is a loosely titled "Twentieth Anniversary" compilation, containing hits from the other albums, and some previously unreleased parodies.  We definitely should have charged more for that first recording session.

Volume Seven:  Forbidden Broadway 2001, "A Spoof Odyssey."

The 1995 Los Angeles cast of the Forbidden Broadway spin-off, Forbidden Hollywood. (A separate New York company included Toni DiBuono, Michael McGrath, Christine Pedi, Lance Roberts, and Fred Barton).

For the economy-minded Forbidden fan, a boxed set of the first four volumes in one package.