WHAT’S THE FUZZ ALL ABOUT
AVENUE Q UK 2019 TOUR CAST ANNOUNCED
Guess Q’s back! The naughtiest puppets in town will be coming to a venue near you as comedy musical Avenue Q returns next year to tour the UK with all of your favourite fuzzy friends, opening at Portsmouth Kings Theatre 25 January 2019.
Following five years in the West End, sell-out runs worldwide and smash hit tours in 2014, 2015 and 2016 (packed with mischief, bad behaviour and political incorrectness!) Tony Award-winning Musical, created by Jeff Marx and Robert Lopez ,Co-creator of Book of Mormon and writer of the songs for Disney’s Frozen, is an irresistibly charming tale of the loveable characters on a downtown New York street trying to make sense of life’s burning issues.
Cast announced today includes Megan Armstrong, Jasmine Beel, Ellis Dackombe, Chloe Gentles, Nicholas Mclean, Robbie Noonan, Saori Oda, Cecily Redman, Lawrence Smith, Oliver Stanley and Tom Steedon
Meet Princeton, a bright-eyed graduate who comes to New York City with big dreams and a tiny bank account. 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, Lucy the Sl*t (the name says it all!) and a very cute kindergarten teacher named Kate Monster. 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.
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 where it ran for five years before touring the UK. It has appeared in more than ten countries all over the world.
Avenue Q is produced by Selladoor Worldwide (producers of Footloose, Little Shop of Horrors, Flashdance – The Musical and Fame – The Musical), Showtime Theatre Productions and in association with Richard Darbourne Limited – Avenue Q is directed and choreographed by Cressida Carré, designed by Richard Evans, Lighting Designed by Charlie Morgan Jones and Sound Designed by Chris Bogg. Puppets are designed by Paul Jomain of Q Puppets with Puppet Coaching by Nigel Plaskitt.
Hilarious, cheeky and uproariously entertaining, with a cast of 11 hugely talented performers and puppets, Avenue Q is the musical like no other.
So don’t let your life suck – book your tickets today! (Suitable for audiences 14+)
LISTINGS
25 Jan – 02 Feb Kings Theatre Portsmouth – www.kingsportsmouth.co.uk – 023 9282 8282
04 – 09 Feb Wimbledon New Theatre – www.atgtickets.com/wimbledon – *
11 – 16 Feb New Alexandra – Birmingham – www.atgtickets.com/birmingham – 0844 871 3011 *
25 Feb – 02 Mar Chester Storyhouse – www.storyhouse.com – 01244 409 113
11 – 16 Mar Basildon Towngate – www.towngatetheatre.co.uk – 01268 205 300
18 – 23 Mar Derby Theatre – www.derbytheatre.co.uk – 01332 59 39 39
25 – 30 Mar Bradford Alhambra – www.bradford-theatres.co.uk – 01274 432000
01 – 06 Apr Marlowe Theatre Canterbury – www.marlowetheatre.com – 01227 787787
08 – 13 Apr Wirral Floral Pavillion – www.floralpavilion.com – 0151 116 0000
15 – 20 Apr Cheltenham Everyman – www.everymantheatre.org.uk – 01242 572573
22 – 27 Apr Reading Hexagon – www.readingarts.com/hexagon/ – 0118 960 6060
29 Apr – 04 May Ipswich Regent Theatre – www.ipswichregent.com – 01473 433100
06 – 11 May Dunstable Grove Theatre – www.grovetheatre.co.uk – 01582 60 20 80
13 – 18 May Gaiety Theatre Dublin – www.gaietytheatre.ie – 0818 719 388
20 – 25 May Leicester Haymarket – www.haytheatre.com – 0116 296 1236
27 May – 01 Jun Edinburgh Kings Theatre – www.capitaltheatres.com – 0131 529 6000
03 – 08 Jun Brighton Theatre Royal – http://www.atgtickets.com/brighton – 0844 871 7650 *
10 – 15 Jun Wolverhampton Grand – www.grandtheatre.co.uk – 01902 42 92 12
17 – 22 Jun Cardiff New Theatre – www.newtheatrecardiff.co.uk – 0292 087 8889
24 – 29 Jun Glasgow Kings Theatre www.atgtickets.com/glasgow – 0844 871 7648 *
15 – 20 Jul Nottingham Theatre Royal – www.trch.co.uk – 0115 989 5555
29 Jul – 03 Aug Sheffield Lyceum www.sheffieldtheatres.co.uk 0114 249 6000
07- 10 Aug Belfast Waterfront Theatre – www.waterfront.co.uk – +44 (0)28 9033 4455
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