AVENUE Q

ABOUT AVENUE Q AVENUE Q caused a sensation at the 2004 Tony Awards by beating blockbuster Wicked to win the three most coveted awards – Best Musical, Best Book and Best Score. The production is still playing on Broadway to packed houses six years later as well as enjoying continued success on London’s West End where it has been playing for the past three years. THERE is much to love about Avenue Q. The characters are fantastic, the puppets they control are smart-mouthed but charming, the pace is cracking, the lyrics funny and the air is thick with undiluted fun. Avenue Q is like an amalgamation of Sesame Street and South Park that is set in a grimy part of New York. While it is famous for being naughty, it is also delightfully sweet. The music and lyrics by Robert Lopez and Jeff Marx are witty and wonderful, with stand-out songs including ‘Everyone's A Little Bit Racist’, the wistful ‘I Wish I Could Go Back To College’, the spectacular ‘The More You Love Someone’ and the self-pitying’ It Sucks To Be Me’. Life may suck on AVENUE Q but being jobless, homeless & politically incorrect, are just some of the topics featured in the terrific songs of this show. For those weaned on Sesame Street, the AVENUE Q puppets may look familiar, but this send up of political correctness isn’t for the kiddies. The show features some of the Gold Coasts most talented and popular performers- Emma June Curik, Stewart Reeve, Grant Ebeling, Steffi Kriz, Anna Sofraniou, Ashley Tardy, Robert Pigdon to name but a few. Avenue Q is a deliciously entertaining and a naughty night out at the theatre that is absolutely worth the effort.