Show Business: Scream Girls and Gypsies

Forbidden Broadway fills the house by poking fun at the hits

If Jennifer Holliday has left the New York cast of Dreamgirls, then who is that large woman belting out one of her songs at Palsson's Supper Club on West 72nd Street? But wait a minute. The tune is the same, but the lyrics are just a little off.

And I am tellin' you I'm not

singing

Anybody can sing and chant

I much rather scream and rant

Yes I'm a scream girl . . .

Compared to my raspy trills

Louis Armstrong is Bev'ly Sills.

If the...

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