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After the American Musical Theater of San Jose declared bankruptcy in early December, there remained some hope that Avenue Q would still make it’s Northern California Bay Area debut in San Jose. But this week’s news declared that the touring production of the musical has been scuttled for the Bay Area.
If you don’t know much about Avenue Q, you should know it’s a Tony award winning musical based on Sesame Street-like puppet characters interacting with human characters, for an adult audience. The musical covers adult topics like racism, pornography and homosexuality, so it’s really not a kid friendly show. The cast features one Asian character named “Christmas Eve” who is a Japanese immigrant trying to find work in Koreatown, but speaks no Korean. She’s engaged to the character Brian, an out-of-work Jewish comedian. Christmas Eve was played by Ann Harada, using a heavy Japanese accent in the original production.
The musical also features songs like “Everyone’s a Little Bit Racist“, and uses not only the character of Christmas Eve to discuss racism, but uses racism against Monsters (e.g. Cookie Monster, parodied in Avenue Q by the character Trekkie Monster) as well.
It’s a major disappointment the Bay Area won’t be graced with this production. Those of us looking forward to the musical will have to wait a little longer or travel to Sacramento, the nearest venue that will have the touring production.
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aw, that's too bad. avenue q is a pretty good show.
aw, that's too bad. avenue q is a pretty good show.
What a huge bummer that the Bay Area won't be able to see this hilarious and very ADULT show that was especially written for anyone who remembers Sesame Street in their (not their children's) lifetime!
I was lucky enough to be in a project with composer/lyricist Jeff Marx at the Academy of New Musical Theatre in North Hollywood and then see the show in LA in his and his family's presence -- the guy is a kick and as down-to-earth as they come for being half of a pair of comedic/musical geniuses. The other half of that pair is Bobby Lopez who is half-Filipino -- to get to know these two and their amazing Broadway little-engine-that-could success on Broadway, check out the 2007 film "ShowBusiness: The Road to Broadway." Avenue Q even had a successful run in 2008 in the Philippines -- which shows you adults are really big kids all over the world!
My recommendation -- get the CD or download it from iTunes and have yourself a fab night laughing with the show audially, then RUSH out and get those tickets to the Sacramento show and enjoy it even more the second time when you add the visuals and especially the full frontal puppet nudity... ;) GO! DON'T MISS IT!
What a huge bummer that the Bay Area won't be able to see this hilarious and very ADULT show that was especially written for anyone who remembers Sesame Street in their (not their children's) lifetime!
I was lucky enough to be in a project with composer/lyricist Jeff Marx at the Academy of New Musical Theatre in North Hollywood and then see the show in LA in his and his family's presence -- the guy is a kick and as down-to-earth as they come for being half of a pair of comedic/musical geniuses. The other half of that pair is Bobby Lopez who is half-Filipino -- to get to know these two and their amazing Broadway little-engine-that-could success on Broadway, check out the 2007 film "ShowBusiness: The Road to Broadway." Avenue Q even had a successful run in 2008 in the Philippines -- which shows you adults are really big kids all over the world!
My recommendation -- get the CD or download it from iTunes and have yourself a fab night laughing with the show audially, then RUSH out and get those tickets to the Sacramento show and enjoy it even more the second time when you add the visuals and especially the full frontal puppet nudity... ;) GO! DON'T MISS IT!
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