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Avenue Q Critique

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Avenue Q is an American musical directed by Jason Moore based on the book written Jeff Whitty. Its music and lyrics were written Robert Lopez and Jeff Marx. The play won three Tony Awards in 2003, including the Best Musical and ranks 23rd on the list of longest running shows in Broadway history. I was fortunate enough to see the play on Dec 18th at New World Stages performing arts complex, located in New York City. Avenue Q mainly addresses the issues of men and women entering their adulthood. The characters in the play are searching for their purpose in life and themes such as racism, pornography and homosexuality are part of it. The dialogues used in the play are hilarious and the music is very catchy, but the most important aspect of the play is that most of the characters in the play are played by a puppet. The cast consists of three human characters …show more content…

The detail is terrific, with New York tenements’ arched doorways, brickwork, iron stairs and balconies. The cast is equally terrific, from the leads to the smaller roles but the standouts for me were Elizabeth Ann Berg who played the role of Kate Monster and Lucy and Ben Durocher who played the role of Princeton and Rod. The rest of the cast included Kerri Brackin (Mrs T., Bear & others; u/s Kate, Lucy), Grace Choi (Christmas Eve), Jason Jacoby (Nicky, Trekkie Monster, Bear & others), Nick Kohn (Brian), Danielle K. Thomas (Gary Coleman), Katie Boren (Ensemble; u/s Mrs. T, Bear; u/s Kate Monster, Lucy; u/s Christmas Eve), Imari Hardon (Swing), Michael Liscio, Jr. (Swing; u/s Princeton, Rod; u/s Brian; u/s Nicky, Trekkie, Bear; Assistant Stage Manager), and Jed Resnick (Ensemble; u/s Princeton, Rod; u/s Nicky, Trekkie, Bear; u/s Brian). The puppeteers who provide the voices and motion of the puppet characters are invisible to the other characters, but their facial expressions wonderfully accentuate the actions of their felt

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