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| - Mr. Clever - Princeton Little Miss Star - Kate Monster Ernie - Nicky Olie - Rod Dad - Brian Pappy - Gary Coleman Buford - Trekkie Monster Isabella - Lucy Sandy - Christmas Eve
- Avenue Q creates a humorous version of New York City in which puppets and humans coexist. The show uses irony and explicit language, as well as many contemporary cultural references, to comment on societal themes such as racism and homophobia. The show features music and lyrics by Robert Lopez and Jeff Marx, puppets by Rick Lyon, and a book by Jeff Whitty.
- Multiple-Tony Award-winning musical about a group of friends trying to live out their dreams, despite such mundane obstacles as trying to hold a job. The show is loosely based on and inspired by Sesame Street, though it handles adult themes such as sex, drinking and pornography. Much of the humor is crude and the language is quite foul, and there is one on-stage depiction of puppet sex, so despite appearing to be a children's show, it is very definitely for mature audiences. Now has a developing character sheet.
- Avenue Q is a street in the south Bronx. Habitated by muppets, perverts, and Lebanese falafel vendors, it is a dangerous place for anyone of Midwestern descent to go to. The human population of Avenue Q frequently mix with the puppets, leading to 42 charges of beastiality as of January. One of America's least safe neighbors beyond the state of New Jersey, its population is best broken into three distinct groups: Perverts, Lebanese people, and Muppets.
- The libretto, or book, for Avenue Q was written by Jeff Whitty, who won a Tony Award for Best Book for a Musical for his work on Avenue Q. All of the puppets in the musical were created by Rick Lyon. Some of the characters in the musical are based on popular Sesame Street characters such as Bert, Ernie, and Cookie Monster. There is a book about the show, Avenue Q: The Book.
- The lights dim and the two television screens flanking the stage illuminate with an animated cartoon of Mr. Sun heading home to Avenue Q, parodying the introduction to Sesame Street as the cast sings the opening theme ("The Avenue Q Theme"). Rod talks to wannabe-therapist Christmas Eve for advice about a "friend" he has who's gay and in the closet, when he's clearly talking about himself. Christmas Eve doesn't pick up on this and inadvertently insults Rod's "friend," thereby insulting Rod himself.
- Avenue Q is a Broadway musical that mixes the likes of puppeteering and acting together on stage. It bases itself on a street where puppets and humans alike live together. It included in its original cast several veteran Muppeteers, including John Tartaglia, Stephanie D'Abruzzo, Rick Lyon and Jennifer Barnhart. It is a post-modern and Generation X-themed takeoff on Sesame Street. __TOC__ The show won three Tony Awards in 2004 including the Tony Award for "Best Musical" and received a Grammy award nomination for Best Musical Show Album, and is currently the twenty-fifth longest running show on Broadway.
- The single greatest moment in the history of entertainment. It has nothing to do with Board 8 other than the fact that one of the songs from it, The Internet is for Porn, is a popular online fad, and that BlackMageJawa is obsessed with it. But it still deserves a mention. This is the peak of human endeavour. Nothing that has gone before, nothing that has yet to come, will ever compare with the brilliance of Avenue Q. I mean, how can you beat a show that has a song about racism, two cute bears that try to wreck people's lives, and hardcore Muppet sex? You can't.
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| - Mr. Clever - Princeton Little Miss Star - Kate Monster Ernie - Nicky Olie - Rod Dad - Brian Pappy - Gary Coleman Buford - Trekkie Monster Isabella - Lucy Sandy - Christmas Eve
- Avenue Q creates a humorous version of New York City in which puppets and humans coexist. The show uses irony and explicit language, as well as many contemporary cultural references, to comment on societal themes such as racism and homophobia. The show features music and lyrics by Robert Lopez and Jeff Marx, puppets by Rick Lyon, and a book by Jeff Whitty.
- Multiple-Tony Award-winning musical about a group of friends trying to live out their dreams, despite such mundane obstacles as trying to hold a job. The show is loosely based on and inspired by Sesame Street, though it handles adult themes such as sex, drinking and pornography. Much of the humor is crude and the language is quite foul, and there is one on-stage depiction of puppet sex, so despite appearing to be a children's show, it is very definitely for mature audiences. Now has a developing character sheet.
- Avenue Q is a street in the south Bronx. Habitated by muppets, perverts, and Lebanese falafel vendors, it is a dangerous place for anyone of Midwestern descent to go to. The human population of Avenue Q frequently mix with the puppets, leading to 42 charges of beastiality as of January. One of America's least safe neighbors beyond the state of New Jersey, its population is best broken into three distinct groups: Perverts, Lebanese people, and Muppets.
- Avenue Q is a Broadway musical that mixes the likes of puppeteering and acting together on stage. It bases itself on a street where puppets and humans alike live together. It included in its original cast several veteran Muppeteers, including John Tartaglia, Stephanie D'Abruzzo, Rick Lyon and Jennifer Barnhart. It is a post-modern and Generation X-themed takeoff on Sesame Street. __TOC__ The show won three Tony Awards in 2004 including the Tony Award for "Best Musical" and received a Grammy award nomination for Best Musical Show Album, and is currently the twenty-fifth longest running show on Broadway. Ed Christie, the manager at The Muppet Workshop in New York at the time reports: “After the workshop (pre-Broadway) performances of Avenue Q, the Henson company held a meeting with Jeff Marx and Bobby Lopez and Rick Lyon. The Henson reps tried to get a handle on the intentions of the show and tried to discourage the Avenue Q team from using their "Muppety" designs - so close to the copyrighted designs that they (Henson) had developed over the past 35 years (and Mr. Lyon was exposed to, as he was one of their puppeteers). The Avenue Q group refused to back down - claiming that they were protected under the parody laws (like Saturday Night Live is). Lopez, Marx and Lyon explained that the show would not be successful if the characters did not resemble the characters they were spoofing. Lawyers for Henson and Sesame Workshop were able to come to an agreement with the Avenue Q group. Rick Lyon built the characters as he wished and Avenue Q made it to Broadway.” The show opened on Broadway in New York City in Summer 2003. It closed on September 13, 2009 and moved to New World Stages six weeks later where it continues to run as a Off-Broadway production. In 2005, Avenue Q opened in a larger theater in Las Vegas, Nevada, although its run there has since ended. Another production began in London's West End in June 2006 (with Nigel Plaskitt as "puppet consultant", to teach the cast puppetry.) It closed on October 30 2010. A UK tour occurred in 2011. A Swedish adaptation of the show premiered February 16, 2007, on Maximteatern in Stockholm, as the first non-English version of the show. The show closed December 2007 and was replaced by a tour during the fall of 2008. The Finnish adaptation premiered February 23, 2007. The show has also been adapted in Israel, Italy, Brazil (2009), Mexico (2010), Philippines, Singapore, Spain (2010), Fredericia theater in Denmark (October 13 to November 13, 2011). A slightly less edgy version of the show premiered in 2008 in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Cheryl Blaylock, a native of Kalamazoo, taught the cast puppetry and was named "Artist-in-Residence." For regional and community theatre productions, individual productions will have the option for rental of puppets from MTI with the likeness of the original Rick Lyon puppets, or they may build and create their own. Another version of the show for schools, titled Avenue Q: School Edition features toned down sexual content and language, with songs such as "The Internet is for Porn" being replaced with "My Social Life is Online."
- The lights dim and the two television screens flanking the stage illuminate with an animated cartoon of Mr. Sun heading home to Avenue Q, parodying the introduction to Sesame Street as the cast sings the opening theme ("The Avenue Q Theme"). We first meet Princeton, a recent college graduate with a useless B.A. degree in English, who still remains optimistic that he will eventually "make a difference to the human race." ("What Do You Do with a BA in English?/It Sucks to Be Me") In the second part of the song, we are introduced to the rest of the cast: Kate Monster, a cute member of the "Monster race" who can't get a date; Nicky and Rod, two roommates who are fed up with each other; Christmas Eve, a Japanese immigrant who came to this country to get a job as a therapist but has no clients; her unemployed fiancé (Brian); and finally, Gary Coleman, from T.V.'s Diff'rent Strokes, who is now an apartment superintendent and sick of people coming up to him to say "What'chyou talkin' about Willis?" The uptight Rod tries to relax by reading his favorite book, Broadway Musicals of the 1940s when Nicky comes home and tries to engage Rod in conversation about a gay guy he met on the subway. Rod is strangely uncomfortable talking about homosexuality, but Nicky persists, and lets his roommate know that it would be perfectly fine with Nicky if Rod were gay, which Rod emphatically denies. ("If you were Gay") Princeton is struggling to find what to do with his life. The TV monitors explain to him that he needs to find a purpose because that is what everyone has. He finds a lucky penny and decides things are looking up in his search ("Purpose"). He is suddenly approached by the Bad Idea Bears, two very cute but very evil teddy bears who encourage him to spend his savings on a six-pack rather than put it in the bank. Kate gets called up by Mrs. Thistletwat, the kindergarten teacher, who says that she will not be around in the morning due to her having heart replacement surgery and that Kate (her assistant) may teach whatever subject she likes. Kate wants to teach something "relevant" and "modern", and decides upon the Internet. But Trekkie Monster, the porn-loving monster, soon destroys any sort of positive credibility for "this new technology." ("The Internet is for Porn") Rod talks to wannabe-therapist Christmas Eve for advice about a "friend" he has who's gay and in the closet, when he's clearly talking about himself. Christmas Eve doesn't pick up on this and inadvertently insults Rod's "friend," thereby insulting Rod himself. Kate has a feeling Princeton has a crush on her, and when he comes over to deliver a mix tape, she's sure of it. But then she starts reading the songs. Could the song list be a clue? Princeton uses her bathroom returns to read the second side of the tape which gives a much clearer signal. Princeton then asks Kate to go out with him to the Around the Clock Café that night. "He likes me!" Kate decides. ("Mix Tape") Everyone is ready for the show to begin at the Around the Clock Cafe. Brian gives the opening act, which could be deemed as revealing a little too much information. ("I'm Not Wearing Underwear Today") In the face of the audience's lacklustre response, Brian introduces the star of "Girls Gone Wild, parts 2, 5, and 7..." Lucy the Slut. Lucy takes the stage, singing "Special", and makes everyone feel a little better about themselves. (And she makes Trekkie feel quite a bit of himself.) After the set, Kate and Princeton are ready to go home after an enjoyable evening, but the Bad Idea Bears arrive to suggest that they should have some harmless Long Island Iced Teas (Absinthe Daiquiris in the London show) and play some drinking games. After the first round, Kate says it's her treat for the next round. While Kate is away retrieving the next set of drinks, Lucy latches onto Princeton, telling him when he's ready for a real woman, she'll be around. In their drunken state, Kate and Princeton are convinced by the Bad Idea Bears to go home and have sex. Gary Coleman (backed up by the Bad Idea Bears) is called by other tenants to tell Princeton and Kate to stop making love so loudly. Gary refuses. Brian and Christmas Eve are also getting some action on the side. And Trekkie Monster seems to be enjoying himself just fine. ("You Can Be as Loud as the Hell You Want (When You're Making Love)") An animated TV short illustrates the differing perspectives of a man and woman through a The Electric Company parody: a sillhoutted male head on the left states very clearly, "come" while the silhouetted female head on the right stubbornly insists, "mitment." They repeat this several times until the female takes over and says, "commitment." Rod cannot sleep, and Nicky snores loudly in the bed next to him. Before Rod can shake him to wake him up, Nicky begins to talk in his sleep... about Rod! Nicky is fantasizing about Rod, and Rod is jubilant because his dreams are finally coming true. Meanwhile, Kate and Princeton lie in bed and explain how happy they are with each other. Princeton gives Kate his lucky penny as a gift to let her know how much she means to him. Kate begins singing the same jubilant chorus as Rod, but sadly for Rod, his is only a dream, as he discovers when Nicky shakes him awake. ("Fantasies Come True") The next morning, Kate wakes to Mrs. Thistletwat's voice on the phone, yelling at her that she missed the morning classes she was supposed to teach. Kate, angered by all this, quits her job. Princeton calls her very brave and asks her to be his girlfriend and to accompany him to Brian and Christmas Eve's wedding. Everyone is present for Brian and Christmas Eve (who is apparently dressing for Christmas and Independence Day in addition to the wedding), including the rabbi Gary Coleman (he apparently does everything in Avenue Q). Everyone calls over Nicky, wondering if there's any truth to the rumour that Rod is gay. Nicky confirms that without a doubt, Rod is a closeted homosexual; Rod overhears him and is dumbstruck. "I am not...a closeted homo-whatever!" He in fact has a girlfriend no one has ever heard of or seen; he quickly creates a girlfriend named Alberta who lives in Vancouver. ("My Girlfriend Who Lives in Canada") The wedding ends with some awkwardness, especially when Rod throws Nicky out of their apartment. Princeton gets scared by the two TVs that animatedly transform the word "purpose" into "propose", and it doesn't help when Kate snatches the bride's bouquet from a girl. Scared of commitment, Princeton breaks up with Kate. A disappointed Kate ends the first act with a note of defiance. ("There's a Fine, Fine Line")
- The libretto, or book, for Avenue Q was written by Jeff Whitty, who won a Tony Award for Best Book for a Musical for his work on Avenue Q. All of the puppets in the musical were created by Rick Lyon. Some of the characters in the musical are based on popular Sesame Street characters such as Bert, Ernie, and Cookie Monster. There is a book about the show, Avenue Q: The Book.
- The single greatest moment in the history of entertainment. It has nothing to do with Board 8 other than the fact that one of the songs from it, The Internet is for Porn, is a popular online fad, and that BlackMageJawa is obsessed with it. But it still deserves a mention. This is the peak of human endeavour. Nothing that has gone before, nothing that has yet to come, will ever compare with the brilliance of Avenue Q. I mean, how can you beat a show that has a song about racism, two cute bears that try to wreck people's lives, and hardcore Muppet sex? You can't. Plus the girl who 'plays' Kate Monster and Lucy the Slut in the London version is fantastic. And hot.
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