‘Avenue Q’ puppets finally hit Chicago Posted on May 16th
The puppets are finally coming! The puppets are finally coming!
The stiff-jawed, R-rated denizens of “Avenue Q” sure took their sweet time getting to Chicago. London and Las Vegas both seduced Kate, Princeton and their human handlers away from us for far too long. It’s lucky we Midwesterners are the forgiving types.
But after almost five years, the tour of the hit, Tony-winning 2003 Broadway pop musical by Robert Lopez and Jeff Marx is finally landing in Chicago. At last, we’ll get to hear such prescient ditties as “The Internet Is for Porn” and the straight-to-the-point “It Sucks To Be Me.” Finally, fans of “Sesame Street” can indulge an adult taste for irony and sexuality and yet still spend some quality time with a character whose face is bright orange.
Welcome to “Avenue Q,” a fictional, outer-borough New York neighborhood of the terminally washed-up, where losers, loners, over-schooled college grads and has-been celebrities all come together. Hey, at least it’s diverse. Here, puppets and humans get on surprisingly well.
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