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Avenue Q

Opening Date: Oct 21, 2009
Closing Date: May 26, 2019
Running Time: 02:15
Avenue Q

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Playing @
New World Stages
340 West 50th Street, New York City, NY 10019
Winner of the 2004 TONY® “TRIPLE CROWN” for BEST MUSICAL, BEST SCORE and BEST BOOK - part flesh, part felt and packed with heart

The story of Princeton, a bright-eyed college grad who comes to New York City with big dreams and a tiny bank account. He soon discovers that the only neighborhood in his price range is Avenue Q; still, the neighbors seem nice. There's Brian the out-of-work comedian and his therapist fianceé Christmas Eve; Nicky the good-hearted slacker and his roommate Rod -- a Republican investment banker who seems to have some sort of secret; an Internet addict called Trekkie Monster; and a very cute kindergarten teaching assistant named Kate.

Together, Princeton and his newfound friends struggle to find jobs, dates, and their ever-elusive purpose in life.
Off BroadwayPlay - ComedyMusicalPerformance Art
Show Notes: 1 Intermission
Age Guidance: 16
Audience Advisory: Mature language/themes Avenue Q does employ puppets, however it is not suitable for young children. Strobe lights are used in this show

Performance Schedule

MONDAY, WEDNESDAY thru SATURDAY @  8 PM
SUNDAY @  7:30 PM
SATURDAY @  2:30 PM
SUNDAY @  3 PM


Music
  • Robert Lopez and Jeff Marx

Lyrics
  • Robert Lopez and Jeff Marx

Book
  • Jeff Whitty

Director
  • Jason Moore

Choreographer
  • Ken Roberson

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Reviews

  • Watching [the cast] bring new shadings to the art of blurring the boundaries between cloth and flesh is a pleasure, as their characters wrestle with issues of sex, love, commitment and time passing. Though I don’t belong to the same generation as these frustrated figures, I felt a reassuring sense of homecoming when I once again saw Anna Louizos’s cartoon urban streetscape. Part of that is a critic’s gratitude for a proven show with an original sensibility in a theater season short on musical imagination. But pretty much anyone who remembers arriving in New York, fresh from school, without a trust fund or a sugar daddy (or momma), will find grounds for identifying with those rudderless figures onstage. The show’s concluding number, “Only for Now,” hymns the curse and comfort of the idea that nothing is forever. In the original lyrics, the litany of things that are promised to be only temporary, in addition to “your hair” and sex, included George W. Bush. That has been altered to Fox News. In the meantime I am perfectly happy that the “for now” of “Avenue Q” remains indefinite.

    ---The New York Times
  • Six years after the show's opening, the hilarious book by Jeff Whitty and equally funny songs by Robert Lopez and Jeff Marx have retained their snap. The concept of puppets (operated by actors in full view of the audience) having romantic problems and bills to pay just like people not made of felt still raises guffaws. Though it's moved five blocks to a smaller stage, "Avenue Q" is still one of the hippest theatrical destinations in New York.

    ---Backstage
  • Watching [the cast] bring new shadings to the art of blurring the boundaries between cloth and flesh is a pleasure, as their characters wrestle with issues of sex, love, commitment and time passing. Though I don’t belong to the same generation as these frustrated figures, I felt a reassuring sense of homecoming when I once again saw Anna Louizos’s cartoon urban streetscape. Part of that is a critic’s gratitude for a proven show with an original sensibility in a theater season short on musical imagination. But pretty much anyone who remembers arriving in New York, fresh from school, without a trust fund or a sugar daddy (or momma), will find grounds for identifying with those rudderless figures onstage. The show’s concluding number, “Only for Now,” hymns the curse and comfort of the idea that nothing is forever. In the original lyrics, the litany of things that are promised to be only temporary, in addition to “your hair” and sex, included George W. Bush. That has been altered to Fox News. In the meantime I am perfectly happy that the “for now” of “Avenue Q” remains indefinite.

    ---The New York Times
  • Six years after the show's opening, the hilarious book by Jeff Whitty and equally funny songs by Robert Lopez and Jeff Marx have retained their snap. The concept of puppets (operated by actors in full view of the audience) having romantic problems and bills to pay just like people not made of felt still raises guffaws. Though it's moved five blocks to a smaller stage, "Avenue Q" is still one of the hippest theatrical destinations in New York.

    ---Backstage

Accessibility

  • Box Office

    Street to Lobby (Box Office): no steps, ground floor. Box Office windows are wheelchair accessible.
  • Restroom

    All restrooms are wheelchair accessible via the elevator. Restrooms are on the Orchestra and Mezzanine levels.
  • Elevator/Escalator

    There is an elevator and an escalator providing access from the Box Office lobby to the orchestra and mezzanine levels of the theatre.
  • Entrance

    There are no steps to the box office.
  • Visual Assistance

    Available upon request
  • Water Fountain

    Water fountains are next to the Orchestra restrooms on the 50th Street side.
  • Assisted Listening System

    Infrared assisted listening devices and neck induction loop systems (requires t-coil) are available to borrow at the Shubert Audience Services kiosk
  • Wheelchair Info

    Wheelchair seating is available
  • Passenger Loading Zone

    Front of Entrance

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