Spreckels Theatre (San Diego, CA)
Winner of the 2004 Tony Award for Best Musical and still one of the biggest hits on Broadway, Avenue Q is a hilarious look at life and love in New York City, featuring a fantastic cast of people and puppets. Full of heart, humor and hummable tunes, this "hip new feel-good musical" (Time magazine) follows Princeton, a bright-eyed college grad, and his newfound friends in their pursuit of happiness on a street called Avenue Q.
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The last date listed for Avenue Q, The Musical was Sunday August 5, 2007 / 2:00pm.
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The theatre was way too hot and this might have caused some people not to come back after intermission (there was a marked decrease in attendees) but the quality of the show was amazing and my guest and I had a wonderful time...I would recommend the show to all but be sure to wear some sandals and shorts...!!!
Thumbs up! We absolutely loved this show - the dialogue was very clever and the music was catchy! The sound system could have been better, however.
thanks! Y & G
We laughed so hard we were in tears! This is a great show, the perfect blend of comedy and warmheartedness. The songs are about all those funny little things you think in your head but no one ever says (like, "It sucks to be Me"). You will not be disappointed!
Regarding the venue, our seats were in right mezz row H, and view was great. Seats are quite cramped, but it wouldn't keep me from seeing the show. Definitely wear lightweight clothing.... I wore a strappy summer dress and was fine. I would have been hot in long sleeves!
A relic of the great era of downtown theater-palaces, this pretty space has been a venue for everything from sugary musicals to rock and rap. Opened in 1912, the 1,466-seat theater was converted for film use in 1922 and back to live shows in the 1970s, thereby escaping the urban "renewal'' that leveled so many smaller movie houses.
With its marble box office and statuary, it's worth getting to
Website: http://theoldglobe.org/productions/AvenueQ449.html
Avenue Q tells the hilarious story of Princeton, a bright-eyed college grad who comes to New York City with big dreams and a tiny bank account. He soon discovers that the only neighborhood in his price range is Avenue Q; still, the neighbors seem nice. There's Brian the out-of-work comedian and his therapist fianceé Christmas Eve; Nicky, the good-hearted slacker, and his roommate Rod--a Republican investment banker who seems to have some sort of secret; an Internet addict called Trekkie Monster; and a very cute kindergarten teaching assistant named Kate. Together, Princeton and his newfound friends struggle to find jobs, dates, and their ever-elusive purpose in life.
The Globe is proud to present the West Coast premiere of the show.
Avenue Q opened off-Broadway at the Vineyard Theatre in March 2003, where it garnered rave reviews, and was extended four times. In addition to the Tony Award for Best Musical, the show won Tonys for its creators Robert Lopez and Jeff Marx for Best Score, as well as Jeff Whitty for Best Book of a Musical. It also won the 2003 Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding New Musical, as well as a nomination for the 2003 Outer Critics Circle Outstanding Off-Broadway Musical award.
Robert Lopez and Jeff Marx (Music and Lyrics, Original Concept) began writing Avenue Q in the BMI Workshop in 1999, and three years later it was produced off-Broadway, with a subsequent move to Broadway, winning three Tony Awards. They are currently writing the screenplay and songs for a new movie-musical for Universal Pictures, as well as writing a new Broadway musical with Matt Stone and Trey Parker, the creators of "South Park." Their other works include a new Muppet Movie called "Kermit, Prince of Denmark" (which received the coveted Ed Kleban Award) and Ferdinand the Bull, a children's musical for Theatreworks/USA.
Jeff Whitty (Book) won the 2004 Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical for Avenue Q. His plays include The Further Adventures of Hedda Gabler, The Hiding Place, The Plank Project, Balls, and Suicide Weather. Companies presenting his work include South Coast Repertory, the Atlantic Theater Company, the Vineyard Theatre, and New York Stage and Film/Vassar. Screenplays include "Zora," a feature for Warner Brothers, and an untitled musical project for Paramount with music by Andre 3000 of Outkast. As an actor, he's worked off-Broadway, regionally and in film and television.
Jason Moore (Director) directed the original Broadway production of Avenue Q, for which he was nominated for a Tony Award. His off-Broadway credits include Avenue Q and The Crumple Zone. He served as Associate Director for Les Miserables (Broadway and National Tour) and Ragtime (Vancouver). As a writer, his works include The Floatplane Notebooks, as well as episodes of "Dawson’s Creek," "Everwood" and "One Tree Hill." His upcoming projects include a live-action movie musical of Disney’s "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" for ABC-TV and Shrek: The Musical on Broadway in 2007.
For mature audiences; contains strong language and full puppet nudity.
Avenue Q has not been authorized or approved by The Jim Henson Company or Sesame Street Workshop, which have no responsibility for its content.
The Tony Award-winning Old Globe is one of the country's leading professional regional theaters and has stood as San Diego's flagship arts institution for 74 years. Under the direction of Executive Producer Louis G. Spisto, The Old Globe produces a year-round season of 15 productions of classic, contemporary and new works on its three Balboa Park stages: the 580-seat Old Globe Theatre, the 227-seat Arena Stage at the San Diego Museum of Art's James S. Copley Auditorium (an interim second stage during construction of the new 250-seat Sheryl and Harvey White Theatre) and the 612-seat outdoor Lowell Davies Festival Theatre, home of its internationally renowned Shakespeare Festival. More than 250,000 people attend Globe productions annually and participate in the theater's education programs and outreach services. Numerous Broadway-bound premieres and revivals, such as The Full Monty, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, A Catered Affair, and the annual holiday musical, Dr. Seuss' How The Grinch Stole Christmas!, have been developed at The Old Globe and have gone on to enjoy highly successful runs in New York and at regional theaters across the country.