After working yesterday I met up with beermat and company to go see AvenueQ. This is an odd show, a musical, but about people like me. Well, more about what would happen if the Muppets grew up and had to find a job in the real world but its written to feel like its about people like me.
The cast is made of around six or seven people, and there are more puppets, allowing an interesting divorcing of characters from people, though the voices stay consistently with one of the players even when the puppet is being controlled by another.
The show follows the story of a recent English graduate in his first days of ‘real life’, renting an apartment on Avenue Q, one of the cheapest bits of town, and his integration into life there. Theres a little use of animations (on TV screens around the theatre) alongside the real life action happening on the stage, theres still a long way to go before such media is integrated into the writing of shows, right now it seems like a bit of an afterthought, not necessary for the show.
All in all a worthwhile show, some catchy music and well acted.