Avenue Q
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Opened Oct 21, 2009
Open Run
Opened Oct 21, 2009
Open Run
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Running Time:
2hr. 15min.
(includes 1 intermission)
2hr. 15min.
(includes 1 intermission)
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WHAT IS IT ABOUT?
Avenue Q is the story of Princeton, a bright-eyed college grad who comes to New York City with big dreams and a tiny bank account. He soon discovers that the only neighborhood in his price range is Avenue Q; still, the neighbors seem nice. There's Brian the out-of-work comedian and his therapist fianceé Christmas Eve; Nicky the good-hearted slacker and his roommate Rod -- a Republican investment banker who seems to have some sort of secret; an Internet addict called Trekkie Monster; and a very cute kindergarten teaching assistant named Kate. And would you believe the building's superintendent is Gary Coleman?!? (Yes, that Gary Coleman.) Together, Princeton and his newfound friends struggle to find jobs, dates, and their ever-elusive purpose in life.
WHAT ARE CRITICS SAYING?
What are other members saying?
RE:Avenue Q off-B'way
Good news: ?You Can Be as Loud as the Hell You Want When You?re Makin? Love? in a 499-seat theater as you can in one with 804. The Avenue Q puppets have moved from Broadway to an off-Broadway theater five blocks away, and that passionate permission is but one of the valuable life lessons taught with great good humor and disarming frankness in the 2003 Tony-winning musical. Inspired by Sesame Street, these Gen Y puppet people have grown-up relationships, problems?and vocabularies. They grapple with issues that are as relevant today as they were long before puppets roamed the land: financial difficulties, racism, sexual identity and the daunting quest for life?s purpose.
Roommates Rod and Nicky and gravel-voiced Trekkie Monster might be virtual clones of Bert, Ernie and Cookie, but their songs ?If You Were Gay? and ?The Internet Is For Porn? are hardly child?s play. Neither are ?It Sucks To Be Me? and ?Everyone?s a Little Bit Racist.?
The fizzy melodies and clever lyrics are enough to recommend Avenue Q, and it doesn?t hurt that the original six-piece orchestra is still intact. But it?s the puppeteer-puppet interplay that makes the show extra special. These puppeteers act right along with the characters. Holding their life-size legless charges in plain sight, the human manipulators are extensions of their puppets, and vice versa. When Anika Larsen, for example, flounces seductively right alongside the wanton Lucy T. Slut, it?s a tossup who?s sexier.
Avenue Q is pure entertainment start to finish. If you haven?t seen Avenue Q, what are you waiting for? If you have and thought you?d like to see it again, what are you waiting for? The smaller venue hasn?t diminished the show?s charm one iota. It?s every bit as good on West 50th Street as it was on West 45th. Maybe better.
Reviewed by pdorian
on Tuesday, Nov 3rd, 2009
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The Tony Award-winning musical Avenue Q remains as sharp and funny at its new Off-Broadway home at New World Stages as it did in its previous incarnations at the Vineyard Theatre and Broadway's Golden Theatre. Indeed, the show's clever score (by Jeff Marx and Robert Lopez) and book (by Jeff Whitty) -- about a motley group of New York residents facing life's challenges together -- continue to delight, and director Jason Moore's production still sparkles.
Much of the credit for the current production's success is due to the performances of Seth Rettberg, who has assumed the roles of neighborhood newbie Princeton and closeted Republican banker Rod, and Anika Larsen, who is playing sweet kinder[...]