The run closed September 13, 2009
- Opened
- July 31, 2003
- Closed
- September 13, 2009
- Performances
- 2,534
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- John Golden Theatre
Of the 395 productions we hold that opened in the 2000s and record a performance count, this is the 6th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Other stagings of Avenue Q 1 more that season
| 2007 | Transfer Transfer |
Who was in it38 named
Jodi Eichelberger
Peter Linz
Carey Anderson
David Benoit
Steven Booth
Leo Daignault
Barrett Foa
Evan Harrington
Heather Hawkins
Sala Iwamatsu
Nicholas Kohn
Robert Mcclure
Carla Renata
Christy Carlson Romano
Jonathan Root
Ann Sanders
Kelli Sawyer
Benjamin Schrader
Rashidra Scott
Howie Michael Smith
Danielle K Thomas
Haneefah Wood
16 of these 38 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 22 are set from the identifier in the cast list, which is a slug of the name — so hyphens and full stops are lost and a few come out wrong. We hold nothing else about them. Nobody here is matched to a character: the cast list records who was in the company and not what they played.
Characters7 roles recorded
John Tartaglia Princeton/Rod
Stephanie D'Abruzzo Kate Monster/ Lucy the Slut
Rick Lyon Nicky/Trekkie Monster/Bear
Natalie Venetia Belcon Gary Coleman
Ann Harada Christmas Eve
Jordan Gelber Brian
Jennifer Barnhart Mrs. T/Bear
Only 512 of 13,459 productions carry role names, and these came out of a wiki table — the names arrived with the table's own cell markup on them and have been stripped back. They are not linked to person records because the identifiers in that table do not resolve to ours.
Creative team
- Director
- Jason Moore
- Choreographer
- Ken Roberson
- Producer
- Kevin McCollum, Robyn Goodman, Jeffrey Seller, Vineyard Theatre (Artistic
A producer is one string on this record, however many people or companies it names. Directors and choreographers are held both as text and as identifiers; where an identifier exists the name links to a page.
Tony Awards 3 from 6 nominations
| Best Musical | Won |
Around this production
The creators pitched it as "Sesame Street with adult themes." Sesame Workshop was not amused but didn\'t sue, reportedly because the parody was too obvious to confuse.
Maggie Lakis, Cullen Titmas, Nicky, Rod, and Seth Rettberg in Avenue Q. Opened at New World Stages October 21, 2009 Theatre World 2009 2010 Season V 66 Willis, p. 126
- Avenue Q repeated its previous success on Broadway and even managed to win the Tony Award for Best Musical. Broadway Musicals Show By Show Seventh Edition Stanley Green Cary Ginell, p. 316
- We’ve got The Producers, Hairspray, and Avenue Q bringing lighthearted laughter back to the Great White Way. Broadway Musicals the 101 Greatest Shows of All Time Bloom Ken 1949 Vlastnik Fra, p. 99
- 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. Enchanted Evenings the Broadway Musical From Show Boat Block Geoffrey Oxford Uni, p. 23
- 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). Historical Dictionary of the Broadway Musical Volume 22 William A Everett Paul R, p. 321
- Seventy-six years after its opening, it housed another puppet production, the award-winning Avenue Q. The Golden Age of American Musical Theatre 1943 1965 Naden Corinne J Rowman Litt, p. 204
Passages naming this production, found by keyword across 178 books. Where it turns up in the literature, not curated notes about it.
What this page does not know
- No photograph of this staging. 48 of 13,459 productions hold one.
- No recording is held for Avenue Q at all.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.