Hello people of the internet!
Avenue Q was every thing I hoped for. Well presented, staged, acted and puppetted ( I think that'a a verb). The choreography was beautifully cheesy and the vocals were strong.
There were a few instances that took away from the overall production, each actor had multiple parts and occasionally both puppets had to interact , then the puppeteer was required to voice two puppets fighting and in my opinion it took your attention away from the story and made you focus on the actor behind the characters.
Was it "real"? Was it "authentic"? Not at all, you had felt puppets as both people and monsters engaging in a story together. There is not a moment that you feel like this actually happened. However, you still related to the themes of love and lose presented.
As puppets they could get away with saying things that were not necessarily accepted for humans to say. Like everyone's a little bit racist. This show was designed to push barriers with comedy that can only be accomplished when non humans were stating things. It allows us to think that maybe some of this is us without directly calling people out.
Thanks for reading, more updates coming soon,
Elyse
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