Dates confirmed for Avenue Q

"Na" "anonymous person's opinion" You don't state your name either. Isn't that the pot calling the kettle black? "I thoroughly don't care what some anonymous person's opinion is of whether or not a show will flop." Really? You seem to have spent quite a bit of time arguing about something you don't care about. "you're assuming that the only target audience that will be going to see this show is MT people: what about those interested in puppetry?" Once an audience goes to a musical, whether it involves puppetry or not, it because a musical theatre audience. Professional musicals involving puppetry - Virgins, Little Shop Of Horrors, Spamalot etc... have a decidedly patchy commercial record in these parts. If there's such big, puppetry audience around, why do shows of this sort regularly fail??? "Henson's Puppet Up sold out when it came" This comment shows your self acknowledged - I'm not a producer (of large shows anyway) and am not going to comment on the issue of profitability given that I don't know enough about it ignorance of the producing world. Puppet Up had government money - from more than one country - it was not a purely commercial (private money) production. Plus, it had the backing for the Hensons. Q, in Australia, is being staged by commercial producers who describe themselves as small - their pockets aren't nearly as deep as those of the Hensons. Plus - As any industry insider will tell you, quite a number of the Puppet Up houses at the Princess were papered - free tickets. Think of it this way - If the show was selling out, genuinely selling out in Melbourne, and was such a commercial money spinner, why didn't interstate dates follow? DFT is, I understand, a term, incorporating the "f" word, to dismiss the views of someone else. If that's the level this discussion has reached, no point in my calmly, and in a non abusive manner, debating my point of view. The true test will come next year. Let's hope Q is a success. However, I suspect I'll be coming back to this board, and posting a link to an online story about Q folding early.