Avenue Q

Synopsis

Avenue Q is not the most upmarket of New York streets, and is about as far away from Park Avenue as you can get, but it is home to some lively and off the wall characters performed by an unholy comedic alliance of humans and puppets! Princeton, a bright-eyed college graduate, has just moved to this neighbourhood as he desperately tries to follow his dreams and discover his ever-elusive purpose in life. A tiny bank balance, the distraction of a busty blonde and a variety of weird and wonderful friends and neighbours lead Princeton on a hilarious story of self-discovery. Life may suck on Avenue Q but being jobless, homeless, politically incorrect, having sex (whether hetero, homo or porno... and that s just the puppets) are just some of the topics featured in the terrific songs of this show.

Our Review:

12 June 2012

Initially, this appears to be classic boy meets girl, etc, etc and a tribute to Sesame Street and The Muppets, the girl being Kate Monster but soon gets into its stride/strut – though maybe ‘Avenue X’ would mark the spot, when Princeton moves in, with no money or job but a head full of dreams, and a house full of friends.

The set is a curiously ramshackle building where rooms double as mini stages, just as windows become screens. And the songs are excellent, the singers incredible, as is the cast, while the choreography is simply (or rather, complicatedly) brilliant: man and muppet, as it were, move as one. Or two in some cases –literally sex on legs as Katharine Moraz is Lucy the Slut plus plucky heroine Kat while tortured Rod (he and Brian Edward Judge may have you speculating about Bert and Ernie) and would be hero Princeton (Sam Lupton).

Daniella Gibb is uptight Mrs T and one of wonderfully evil Teddies, Chris Thatcher b...

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