Tonight I went to see the award-winning "Avenue Q" at the Noel Coward Theatre, Leceister Square.
I really wanted to see this show ever since last May, when Erik and I did a recce mission to Tunbridge Wells to scope out a suitable venue for the school Music camp. On the way down to Tunbridge Wells, Erik had his Mac in the car, and he was telling me about this new show coming to the West End soon from Broadway, Avenue Q. He played me the soundtrack and I have to say, I found the music to be very catchy and thought the concept of the show sounded pretty good. But when it finally arrived in London, the ticket prices were quite high (hey, I only go to the West End if I can get half price tickets or special deals), so I just never got around to it.
Anyway, the other day, after my recent 'theatrefest', I checked out lastminute.com (soooo my favourite website, seriously) and found 2 for 1 tickets to the Friday matinee (which was at 5.30). My housemate, Nic, really wanted to go, so we booked the tickets. Unfortunately Nic has been laid up for the past 2 days with suspected food poisoning, and couldn't go, so Michelle from school came to see it.
Funny? You bet it was! Seriously laugh out loud stuff, on a par with Boeing Boeing last week. Think Sesame Street meets Benny Hill. The basic premise of the show is that a fresh-faced college graduate moves to Avenue Q and meets some wierd and wonderful characters in his quest to find his 'purpose'. Some of the songs include "The internet is for porn", "Everyone's a little bit rascist", "What do you do with a B.A. in English".
At first its kind of wierd to watch, because the main characters are puppets but their puppeteers appear with them on stage, providing the voices and acting too, so that you can see their faces - they're really talented too, especially the guy playing Princeton and Rod (they all play 2 characters), and the girl playing Kate Monster and Lucy the Slut (very versatile singer) - and you're torn with wanting to watch the puppets or the actors, but by the second half you tend to block out the actors and watch the puppets mostly. Or maybe what I have to do is go see it again...
I found some clips on youtube about it (from the Royal Variety performance, so the Queen and the Royal family were there), so have a little look below:
I really wanted to see this show ever since last May, when Erik and I did a recce mission to Tunbridge Wells to scope out a suitable venue for the school Music camp. On the way down to Tunbridge Wells, Erik had his Mac in the car, and he was telling me about this new show coming to the West End soon from Broadway, Avenue Q. He played me the soundtrack and I have to say, I found the music to be very catchy and thought the concept of the show sounded pretty good. But when it finally arrived in London, the ticket prices were quite high (hey, I only go to the West End if I can get half price tickets or special deals), so I just never got around to it.
Anyway, the other day, after my recent 'theatrefest', I checked out lastminute.com (soooo my favourite website, seriously) and found 2 for 1 tickets to the Friday matinee (which was at 5.30). My housemate, Nic, really wanted to go, so we booked the tickets. Unfortunately Nic has been laid up for the past 2 days with suspected food poisoning, and couldn't go, so Michelle from school came to see it.
Funny? You bet it was! Seriously laugh out loud stuff, on a par with Boeing Boeing last week. Think Sesame Street meets Benny Hill. The basic premise of the show is that a fresh-faced college graduate moves to Avenue Q and meets some wierd and wonderful characters in his quest to find his 'purpose'. Some of the songs include "The internet is for porn", "Everyone's a little bit rascist", "What do you do with a B.A. in English".
At first its kind of wierd to watch, because the main characters are puppets but their puppeteers appear with them on stage, providing the voices and acting too, so that you can see their faces - they're really talented too, especially the guy playing Princeton and Rod (they all play 2 characters), and the girl playing Kate Monster and Lucy the Slut (very versatile singer) - and you're torn with wanting to watch the puppets or the actors, but by the second half you tend to block out the actors and watch the puppets mostly. Or maybe what I have to do is go see it again...
I found some clips on youtube about it (from the Royal Variety performance, so the Queen and the Royal family were there), so have a little look below:
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