AVENUE Q

By Paul Dellit
Brisbane, get ready for one of the hottest theatre tickets for 2010. Last year I flew to Sydney for the opening night of the sensational new Broadway musical AVENUE Q, and I promise that if you like musicals you’ll love it! If you love comedy – you’ll laugh your head off!
Avenue Q caused a sensation at the 2004 Tony Awards by beating blockbuster Wicked to win the three most coveted awards – BEST MUSICAL, BEST BOOK and BEST SCORE.
Six years later, the production is still playing to packed houses on Broadway and now Brisbane, it’s your turn to see what all the fuzz is about when Avenue Q comes to QPAC later this month.
Directed by Jonathan Biggins, and featuring a stellar cast, Avenue Q finishes its Australian tour in Brisbane after sell-out seasons around the country.
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.
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. For those weaned on Sesame Street, the Avenue Q puppets may look familiar, but with musical numbers like “Everyone’s A Little Bit Racist” and “If You Were Gay,” this send-up of political correctness definitely isn’t for the kiddies.

AVENUE Q, 20 February – 21 March, Playhouse, QPAC.
Tickets: $34.90 – 64.90.
Bookings: QTIX 136 246 or www.qpac.com.au
CHECK OUT: www.avenueqthemusical.com.au