Avenue Q Essay

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Avenue Q
In the musical production Avenue Q, the lights, music, and characters pulled the story together so it was believable and it sucked the audience into their world. The plot of the story was about a guy who just graduated from college with English major, and is trying to find his place in life. He doesn’t have a job or any money so he finds himself only able to afford an apartment on the street Avenue Q. While he is there the audience meets his neighbors, a comic who doesn’t have job, a psychologist, a monster, and a teacher’s aide who is a monster. The audience gets to know all the puppets really fast and they get right into the action not leaving anymore in the audience bored.
The cast does a wonderful job interacting with each other and making the relationships seem real. The use of puppets were amazing, it was as if the puppets were really alive acting on their own. There was a puppet that required two puppet masters and it was amazing to see how the two cast members worked together and make the puppet come alive. Also there were actors who played more than one character and the transition from one character to another was really cool to see how they would change their voice to one puppet to another. The producer’s use of music, lighting and TV screens helped the audience get drawn deeper into the plays world. They also used this amazing set where different characters would peek through a window or come out through a door, making it seem like there was actually an apartment building there. The set also folded out to create other backgrounds, like the inside of a restaurant, when Princeton took out his date Katie for dinner and met a girl from girls gone wild, Lucy the slut. They have a couple drinks Princeton and Katie and get it on back at his place. She has to teach the next day for her teacher because she went into surgery but forgets and leaves the students alone. Later on the teacher calls her with an unhappy phone call. The producer and cast were very creative in being able to utilize all of the space on the stage. It was amazing how the use of puppets along side with actors helped deepen the plotline. It wasn’t even like there were puppets, because the puppet masters made them come too life and sometimes you would even forget they were being controlled by puppet master. The play showed a lot of humor and I didn’t expect it to be like that at all. It was funny to all people that were watching the play, and it was even shocking to me a little on stuff they talked about in the play. In one part on the play the puppets were singing a song about the internet and another puppet would shout out for porn, like I didn’t expect the play to have that kind of humor at all. This play was for an audience a little older I believe because of the songs they play and some actions that had taken play but it was a good laugh for those who did see it. By the end of the first act by