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Sell a Door
Theatre Company and Richard Darbourne Ltd present
Avenue
Q
Newcastle
Tyne Theatre & Opera House
Friday
16th - Saturday 17th April 2016
A
smash hit on Broadway and in the West End, award-winning comedy musical Avenue
Q will bringing a host of fuzzy friends to Newcastle, playing at Tyne Theatre
& Opera House from Friday 16th to Saturday 17th April 2016.
Featuring
the naughtiest puppets in town, brought hilariously to life by an ensemble cast
of 11 performers, Avenue Q is a Tony Award-winning musical about growing up,
dreaming big, and finding your purpose in life.
Meet
Princeton, a bright-eyed graduate
who comes to New York City with big dreams and a tiny
bank account. Soon discovering that the only neighborhood in his price range is
Avenue Q, he finds himself moving in with some truly quirky characters. There’s
Brian the out-of-work comedian and his therapist fiancée Christmas Eve; Nicky
the good-hearted slacker and his closet gay Republican roommate Rod, an
Internet ‘sexpert’ called Trekkie Monster and a very cute kindergarten teacher
named Kate Monster. And would you believe the building’s superintendent is Gary
Coleman?!
Featuring
hysterically funny songs including The Internet is
for
Porn and Everyone’s A Little Bit Racist, Avenue Q is a hilarious musical with a
warm (and very fuzzy) heart.
“You’d be a muppet to miss it” EDINBURGH EVENING NEWS
Avenue
Q first opened Off-Broadway at the Vineyard Theatre in 2003, before
transferring to Broadway later that year where it won three Tony Awards for
Best Musical, Best Score and Best Book. In 2006 it transferred to the West End produced by Cameron
Mackintosh, where it ran for five years before touring the UK. It has appeared in more
than ten countries all over Avenue Q is co-created by Tony, Grammy and Emmy
Award-winner Robert Lopez, who also co-created the smash-hit Broadway and West End musical The Book of
Mormon. With his wife Kristen Anderson-Lopez, Robert also co-wrote the songs
for Disney’s recent animated feature Frozen, with his work also seen on
television in Scrubs, The Simpsons and Southpark.
Avenue
Q is produced by Sell a Door Theatre Company, who first presented this new production
in a 6 month tour in 2014. Formed in 2007, Sell a Door creates touring
productions aimed at engaging young adults in live theatre. Recent productions
include a forthcoming UK Tour of The History Boys, Seussical in the West End and the debut UK tour of Spring Awakening.
Their co-producer is Richard Darbourne Ltd whose recent work includes Pride and
Prejudice on UK Tour and the 25th Anniversary tour of Return to the Forbidden
Planet.
Avenue
Q has a book by Jeff Whitty and music and lyrics by Robert Lopez and Jeff Marx.
It is directed and choreographed by Cressida Carré, with set design by Richard
Evans, lighting design by Charlie Morgan Jones and sound design by Chris Bogg
and DBS Solutions.
Orchestrations
and arrangements are by Stephen Oremus. It is produced by Sell a Door Theatre
Co and Richard Darbourne Ltd. Puppets are designed by Paul Jomain for Q Puppets
(www.Qpuppets.co.uk).
Website:
www.AvenueQUK.com
Tickets: £32.50 premium &
£28.50 Stalls, Grand & Limited View.
(plus booking fees when booking online and over the phone)
The
Tyne Theatre & Opera House Box Office is open 10am-3:30pm Monday to Friday and
event days
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