Alessandrini were awarded Tony Honors for Excellence in Theatre. It has been nominated five times for the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Revue, winning three times (2001, 2005 and 2008). It also won Drama Desk Special Awards in 1985 and 2009. Forbidden Broadway Goes to Rehab ended its run Off-Broadway on March 1, 2009. In 2009 a book of "Best of" lyrics and the show's history was published under the title Forbidden Broadway: Behind The Mylar Curtain. The show, in its various editions through 2009, received over 9,000 performances and been seen in more than 200 U.S. cities as well as in London, Tokyo, Singapore and Adelaide, Australia, where it played for the only time with an orchestra at the 2002 Adelaide Cabaret Festival. A 2009 review of the London production, in Britain's The Independent, commented: "Actors have always poked fun at the foibles of commercial theatre. ... Usually, though, they keep their parodies to themselves. It takes a touch of genius to turn them into something saleable, but writer Gerald Alessandrini has that Midas touch." The original artwork advertising the show was designed by caricaturist Ken Fallin, who suggested the actors find the name "Nina" written on their bodies as an homage to Al Hirschfeld, who was known for working his daughter's name into his drawings. A 2012/13 version of the show, Forbidden Broadway: Alive and Kicking!, played in New York and was revived in 2014. Another Off-Broadway version, Forbidden Broadway Comes Out Swinging, played in 2014 at the Davenport Theatre. A London edition in 2014 began at the Menier Chocolate Factory and transferred to the Vaudeville Theatre, starring Christina Bianco, Anna-Jane Casey, Damian Humbley and Ben Lewis, with Phillip George directing. In 2019, Forbidden Broadway Salutes Carol Channing played a celebration show for the late Carol Channing in New York. A brand new Off-Broadway edition, Forbidden Broadway: The Next Generation, is currently playing in New York City at the York Theatre. Forbidden Broadway: The Next Generation began previews on September 18, 2019 and opened on October 16, 2019 at New York's The Triad Theatre. The show was conceived, created and written by Alessandrini and was directed by Alessandrini. Forbidden Broadway: The Next Generation closed at The Triad on December 1, 2019. The show did a special limited engagement at the Kravis Center in West Palm Beach, FL from December 27–31, 2019. On January 15, 2020, Forbidden Broadway: The