Avenue Q – Location, Tickets, Reviews
Avenue Q was the queen of all dark horses when it snatched the “Best Musical,” “Best Book,” and “Best Original Score” Tony Awards from Wicked, the front runner that year (2004). Avenue Q, a sassy, low-budget, profane musical comedy with puppets and live actors, is best described as a real-world, grown-up version of Sesame Street.
In the show, Princeton, a recent college graduate, struggles to navigate the “real world” from his rented apartment on the desolate Avenue Q. With his new friends from the neighborhood — including a sex-crazed monster and a band of merry bears: the “bad-idea” bears — Princeton sings about racism, porn, closeted homosexuality, and the uselessness of a B.A. in English.
Avenue Q recently celebrated its 10 year anniversary on the stage.
TICKETS
$75.50-$150 (click here for tickets)
DATES
Open run
LOCATION
New World Stages
430 West 50th Street
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RUNNING TIME
2 hours 15 minutes, 1 intermission
REVIEWS
New York Times
Pulling heartstrings, racy puppets return (2009)
Time Out
Avenue Q remains a sly and winning piece of metamusical tomfoolery (2012)
Theatermania
The Tony Award winning musical remains as delightful as ever in its new Off-Broadway home (2009)
Variety
Of all the post-2000 age of irony, this cheeky satire…has arguably remained the freshest and funniest (2009)
CAST & CREW
(partial list)
Music and Lyrics by Jeff Marx and Robert Lopez
Book by Jeff Whitty