Avenue Q
Avenue Q
★★★★☆ Outrageous
Avenue Q, the Sesame Street parody for adults, filled with X-rated musical numbers, enjoys a skilful production from Sound Events Scotland at St Stephen’s Theatre, with a talented cast and some fun comedy moments.
Avenue Q
★★★★☆ Organised chaos
If you are not familiar with Avenue Q, being staged by Edinburgh Little Theatre at Hill Street – a Q virgin – be prepared to be surprised and very amused by Muppet-like hand puppets swearing, acting inappropriately and addressing adult issues head on.
Avenue Q
★★★★☆ City slickest:
What if Sesame Street got real? If the lessons it taught weren’t aimed at kids, but young adults? What if decidedly Muppety creatures…. swore? Avenue Q at the King’s Theatre has the answers.
Avenue Q
★★★★☆ Acerbic:
Packed with proper grownup moments and thoroughly entertaining with it, the Sell A Door production of Avenue Q steams back into the King’s with its cynicism buttons set to stun.
Avenue Q
✭✭✭✭✩ Shooting for the stars
Remember when you were young and they said you were special? That you could do anything you wanted if you just believed? Well, they lied.
Avenue Q
★★★★★ Streets ahead
An adults-only take on Sesame Street, Avenue Q teaches us a thing or two about life while being one of the wittiest, most tuneful shows in Broadway history.
Review – Avenue Q
* * * * Edinburgh Playhouse Tue 7 – Sat 11 Feb 2012 Rude, crude and breaking all sorts of politically correct taboos, Avenue Q stomps out into the vast Playhouse space as it it had been born to play there. It is hilarious stuff which easily justifies its gimmick – that only three of […]
