that life isn't as easy as we've been led to believe". They stated that the character illustrates "one of the most important themes in Avenue Q. Marx and Lopez said that they originally intended to offer the Gary Coleman role to Coleman himself, and he expressed interest in accepting it, but did not show up for a meeting scheduled to discuss it. Coleman is portrayed (by a woman in most productions) as an adult, who happens to be the building superintendent in the run-down Avenue Q neighborhood due to his dire financial situation. One character is a fictionalized version of the real-life celebrity Gary Coleman, the juvenile actor who played Arnold Jackson in the 1980s American sitcom Diff'rent Strokes and later famously sued his parents and business advisers for stealing his earnings. The story does not explain why seven of the human characters are portrayed by puppets while the other three human characters are played by humans. The show addresses adult themes, such as racism, pornography, coming out, and schadenfreude. However, the characters use a considerable amount of profanity, and puppet nudity and sex are portrayed. The storyline presupposes the existence of "monsters" and talking animals, and human actors sing, dance and interact with puppets, both human and non-human, as if they were sentient beings, in a light-hearted, quasi-fantasy environment. Much of the show's ironic humor emerges from its contrasts with Sesame Street, including the differences between innocent childhood experiences and complex adulthood. (The production officially disclaims any connection with either Sesame Workshop or The Jim Henson Company.) Īll of the characters (puppet and human) are young adults who face real-world problems with uncertain solutions, as opposed to the simplistic problems and invariably happy resolutions encountered by characters on children's television programming. Three of the puppet characters are direct recognizable parodies of Sesame Street puppets: Roommates Rod and Nicky are a riff on Bert and Ernie, while Trekkie Monster bears the distinctive voice and disposition of Cookie Monster, though not his obsession with baked goods.
Marx interned at the program early in his career, and all four of the original cast's principal puppeteers – John Tartaglia, Stephanie D'Abruzzo, Jennifer Barnhart and Rick Lyon – were Sesame Street performers (D'Abruzzo returned to Sesame Street after leaving Avenue Q ). The show draws inspiration from and imitates the format of children's educational television show Sesame Street.
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Conversely, the so-called "live-hands" puppets (see Puppets) require two puppeteers – again, in full view of the audience. One puppeteer sometimes voices two or more puppets simultaneously. The same puppet may be operated by different puppeteers in different scenes, and the actor voicing the puppet may not be the one animating it. To assist with the illusion, the puppeteers wear plain gray clothing in contrast to the human characters' colorful costumes. The puppet and human characters ignore the puppeteers, creating the illusion that the puppets are alive. The puppets are animated and voiced by puppeteers who are on stage, unconcealed. The puppet characters, Princeton, Kate, Nicky, and others, are played by the unconcealed puppeteers as the costumed human actors interact with the puppets.Īvenue Q 's cast consists of three human characters and eleven puppet characters who interact with them, Sesame Street–style. The principal cast includes four puppeteers and three human actors. A school-friendly script has been produced. Major productions have been staged in Las Vegas and the West End, and the musical has been staged and toured in several countries around the world. It then transferred to the off-Broadway New World Stages, where it played until 2019. In July of that same year the show moved to the John Golden Theatre on Broadway, where it ran until 2009, playing for over 2,500 performances. The musical premiered Off-Broadway in 2003 at the Vineyard Theatre, co-produced by the Vineyard Theatre and The New Group. It has been praised for its approach to themes of racism, homosexuality and internet pornography. The show's format is a parody of PBS's Sesame Street, but its content involves adult-oriented themes. It won Best Musical, Book, and Score at the 2004 Tony Awards.
Avenue Q is a musical comedy featuring puppets and human actors with music and lyrics by Robert Lopez and Jeff Marx and book by Jeff Whitty.
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