Avenue Q: See It When Comes to Orlando if You Get a Chance!
Posted: Mon Jun 02, 2008 1:37 pm
Just got back from seeing Avenue Q in Chicago (we got the tickets before I knew it was coming to Orlando, but I was due for a visit to my former hometown anyway). It is totally, utterly freakin' hilarious. Picture a raunchy, explicit version of Sesame Street and you have the concept (examples of the songs include Everyone's a Little Bit Racist, If You Were Gay, You Can Be As Loud as the Hell You Want When You're Making Love, and The Internet is for Porn...I think that makes in kinda self explanatory).
Still, there were actually people who brought their kids despite all the big warning signs (I sure hope they took 'em out before the puppet sex), and I knew the people behind us were gonna be real winners when they discussed how it they figured it would be just like "Rent," and then the husband said that when he spents over $100 for a meal he should be able to wear flip flops and boxer shorts without being kicked out (God only knows what left field that came out of).
Sure enough, we had to spend the whole intermission listening to him lambast his wife for bringing him because he couldn't understand a word because the puppets were talking like...gasp...puppets! And they said dirty things! (Not sure how he knew, since he couldn't understand them). And the dancing was terrible! (There is no dancing in Avenue Q). And he was really pissed that the people behind him were laughing and enjoying it ("They're acting like they like it and I'm sick of listening to people who sound like they enjoy this crap"). And on and on and on....
Finally he went to the bathroom, leaving poor wifey. and Mr. Syndrome and I spent the time raving about how godly the show is and how it deserved to beat the pants off Wicked for the Tony and how only a tasteless moron wouldn't get it and how has such stunning originality, not like all the copycats to the Abba show, like Jersey Boys etc. (Whiney Boy had been saying how Jersey Boys was the only show he could stand). I didn't look back, but I'll bet she was beet red. We had been doing the same thing while he was there, but he was so stinkin' loud that I doubt he caught a word.
We may try to see it again in Orlando if we can get decent tickets. I hope it's the same cast because they were awesome, especially the chick who plays Gary Coleman (yes, THAT Gary Coleman...in the play, he's come so far down in life that he's now a NY building super). But do not...I repeat do not...see this show if you're easily offended.
Still, there were actually people who brought their kids despite all the big warning signs (I sure hope they took 'em out before the puppet sex), and I knew the people behind us were gonna be real winners when they discussed how it they figured it would be just like "Rent," and then the husband said that when he spents over $100 for a meal he should be able to wear flip flops and boxer shorts without being kicked out (God only knows what left field that came out of).
Sure enough, we had to spend the whole intermission listening to him lambast his wife for bringing him because he couldn't understand a word because the puppets were talking like...gasp...puppets! And they said dirty things! (Not sure how he knew, since he couldn't understand them). And the dancing was terrible! (There is no dancing in Avenue Q). And he was really pissed that the people behind him were laughing and enjoying it ("They're acting like they like it and I'm sick of listening to people who sound like they enjoy this crap"). And on and on and on....
Finally he went to the bathroom, leaving poor wifey. and Mr. Syndrome and I spent the time raving about how godly the show is and how it deserved to beat the pants off Wicked for the Tony and how only a tasteless moron wouldn't get it and how has such stunning originality, not like all the copycats to the Abba show, like Jersey Boys etc. (Whiney Boy had been saying how Jersey Boys was the only show he could stand). I didn't look back, but I'll bet she was beet red. We had been doing the same thing while he was there, but he was so stinkin' loud that I doubt he caught a word.
We may try to see it again in Orlando if we can get decent tickets. I hope it's the same cast because they were awesome, especially the chick who plays Gary Coleman (yes, THAT Gary Coleman...in the play, he's come so far down in life that he's now a NY building super). But do not...I repeat do not...see this show if you're easily offended.