Avenue Q
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Avenue Q is a musical comedy featuring puppets and human actors with music and lyrics by Robert Lopez and Jeff Marx and a book by Jeff Whitty. It won Best Musical, Book, and Score at the 2004 Tony Awards.
- Opened
- 2003
- Performances
- 2,534
- Type
- Musical
- Era
- Modern
Won the Tony Award for Best Musical, 2004.
Productions4 on Broadway
| 2003 | John Golden Theatre Original. July 31, 2003 · Jason Moore | 2,534 performances · 3 Tony wins |
| 2006 | Noël Coward Theatre Original. | |
| 2007 | Transfer Theatre unknown. | |
| 2009 | Gielgud Theatre Original. |
Every Broadway staging held in broadway-data, sourced to IBDB. West End runs are not yet held.
Recordings 7 albums held
Licensing 1 entry
| US | Music Theatre International Avenue Q matched on title alone: a lead, not a confirmed licensor |
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41 passages naming Avenue Q, found by keyword across 178 books. It's where this show turns up in the literature, not curated trivia about it.
Avenue Q repeated its previous success on Broadway and even managed to win the Tony Award for Best Musical. book:broadway-musicals-show-by-show-seventh-edition-stanley-green-cary-ginell#p316
We’ve got The Producers, Hairspray, and Avenue Q bringing lighthearted laughter back to the Great White Way. book:broadway-musicals-the-101-greatest-shows-of-all-time-bloom-ken-1949-vlastnik-fra#p99
Avenue Q is one of the megahit shows that opened after Enchanted Evenings and may reach the Top Broadway 10 by the time it eventually closes its curtains. book:enchanted-evenings-the-broadway-musical-from-show-boat-block-geoffrey-oxford-uni#p23
Broadway songs that directly address racism include “You’ve Got to Be Carefully Taught” from South Pacific and “Everyone’s a Little Bit Racist” from Avenue Q (2003). book:historical-dictionary-of-the-broadway-musical-volume-22-william-a-everett-paul-r#p321
Seventy-six years after its opening, it housed another puppet production, the award-winning Avenue Q. book:the-golden-age-of-american-musical-theatre-1943-1965-naden-corinne-j-rowman-litt#p204
Off-Broadway Top Fundraiser: Avenue Q ($22,326) book:theatre-world-2009-2010-season-v-66-willis#p122
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