Avenue Q
Avenue Q is a comedy musical with sesame street style puppets, currently playing at the Gielgud Theatre on Shaftesbury Avenue, London. Lasts approx 2hrs 15 mins (including a 15 min interval). Not suitable for children. Booking until at least January 2010.
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| Contents |
| Avenue Q Moves to a New Theatre |
| Avenue Q show stopper! |
| Noel Coward – Avenue Q |
Avenue Q Moves to a New Theatre
Avenue Q will reopen at the Gielgud Theatre on 1 June after a month-long break. The show has done surprisingly well recently, at least in part because of a realistic pricing policy.
I think it is great news that this favourite show will not be closing after all and so does Cameron Mackintosh:
“When I first saw Avenue Q over five years ago, I found it a very funny, fresh and clever look at the trials and tribulations of young people finding their way in life.So I was rather surprised when the show opened in 2006 that the British national critics mostly didn’t get it.
Three years later Q is going stronger than ever, so much so that ever since I announced its closure business has surged.
Cameron Mackintosh, producer of Avenue Q
The show will move into the Gielgud after Alan Bennett’s play Enjoy finishes its run on 16 May. Meanwhile at the Noel Coward Theatre, Avenue Q makes way for the highly anticipated stage version of the film Calendar Girls opening on April 4th.
Avenue Q show stopper!
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Now we all know Thursday night was Valentine’s but one bloke thought he’d make the ultimate romantic gesture. He persuaded the management to stop the hit musical Avenue Q in full swing just so that he could get up and ask his girlfriend to marry him!!! No pressure there then 
Can’t guarantee you’ll be proposed to if you go, though I bet there will be a few blokes in the audience holding their breath on the 29th – it being a Leap Year an’ all
Avenue Q continues to pack them in at the NOËL COWARD THEATRE (used to be the Albery Theatre). The show might have puppets but it sure ain’t Sesame Street. College graduate Princeton moves into this strange neighbourhood that might have a passing resemblance to the aforementioned kid’s show. He soon find out that life here is altogether darker and funnier too! Too little money and a wealth of weird and wonderful encounters show Princeton that there’s more to life than being ‘normal’. Lots of adult themes and humour and plenty of good songs make this a lively night out.
The show won a slew of TONYS in 2004 and is still going strong. Here’s a clip you might enjoy:
