Now playing in New York & Chicago! 'Forbidden Broadway' mastermind Gerard Alessandrini trains his sights on Lin-Manuel Miranda's 'Hamilton' with 'Spamilton', a hilarious musical mash-up. "Why I had to write SPAMILTON" –Gerard Alessandrini
Like most of the country, I became obsessed with Hamilton and the revolutionary score by Lin-Manuel Miranda. After satirizing musicals for 30 years, I couldn’t
help but feel obligated to take a few jabs at the biggest hit musical that has opened in New York in my lifetime. At first, I started to write just a parody or two for fun, and then I suddenly found myself re-writing most of Hamilton while adding bits and pieces of other classic and contemporary musicals. What came out is a wild mash-up of the “fabulous invalid” called Broadway and the hip-hop hype of Hamilton. The show is fabulous, the hype is unprecedented. Hamilton spam is everywhere. But this show is not only a send-up of Hamilton. It is interspersed with outrageous references to Gypsy, Chicago, The King And I, Assassins, Camelot and Sweeney Todd. Not only is Lin-Manuel Miranda and the stars of the original cast of Hamilton comically eviscerated, but they are joined by caricatures of living Broadway legends the likes of: Patti LuPone, Audra McDonald, Stephen Sondheim, Stephen Schwartz, Barbra Streisand, Bernadette Peters and many more beloved icons."
