According to Avenue Q, it no longer sucks to be you
Warning – this show is not for children – Avenue Q returns to OZ next year, so expect to see puppets having sex, singing about being ‘a little bit racist’ and gleefully owning their predilections for porn.
Packed with mischief, bad behaviour, political incorrectness and songs you probably shouldn’t sing at work, the Tony Award winning musical Avenue Q is returning to Australia from May 2027.
Created by Jeff Marx and Robert Lopez, co-creator of The Book of Mormon and Disney’s Frozen, Avenue Q is an irresistibly charming and furry tale of the loveable characters on a downtown New York street trying to make sense of life’s burning issues.
Fresh out of college with a useless degree, big dreams and absolutely no idea what he’s doing, Princeton moves to New York City and winds up on Avenue Q. There he meets a neighbourhood of puppet misfits trying to figure out the same things the rest of us are: how to find a job, fall in love, pay the bills, survive adulthood and maybe stop looking at porn for five minutes.
Spoiler: they’re not particularly good at any of it.
Featuring hysterically funny songs including The Internet is for Porn and Everyone’s A Little Bit Racist, Avenue Q is a hilarious musical with a warm (and very fuzzy) heart. Think the fuzzy puppet nostalgia of your childhood, except everyone grew up, moved into a questionable share house and discovered sex, unemployment, racism, relationships, rent and the internet.
Twenty years after Avenue Q’s cute subversive qualities first enthralled audiences, the fuzzy-felt Sesame Street hopefuls in Lopez and Marx’s award-winning musical is no longer shocking but remains very amusing as these creatures (plus a few humans) fall in love, have existential crises and create merry havoc.
The all-new Australian production of Avenue Q will be directed by Luke Joslin, who is returning to the block in a sort of landlord capacity as director, after playing Trekkie Monster in the original Australian production.
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Hilarious, cheeky and uproariously entertaining, with a cast of 11 hugely talented performers and puppets, Avenue Q is the musical like no other and, above all, is very, very funny.
Avenue Q plays the Lyric Theatre, QPAC, Brisbane, May 26 to June 6; HOTA, Gold Coast, July 8-17; and Her Majesty’s Theatre, Adelaide, July 21-25.
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