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Avenue Q (2003 Original Broadway Cast)Avenue Q (2003 Original Broadway Cast)
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Released: 2003-10-07
Media: Audio CD
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Title Tracks for Avenue Q (2003 Original Broadway Cast)
- 1. The Avenue Q Theme - Company
- 2. What Do You Do with a B.A. in English? - John Tartaglia
- 3. It Sucks To Be Me - Jordan Gelber, Stephanie D'Abruzzo, John Tartaglia, Rick Lyon, Ann Harada, Natalie Venetia Belcon, Jennifer Barnhart
- 4. If You Were Gay - Rick Lyon with John Tartaglia
- 5. Purpose - John Tartaglia & Company
- 6. Everyone's A Little Bit Racist - John Tartaglia, Stephanie D'Abruzzo, Natalie Venetia Belcon, Jordan Gelber, Ann Harada
- 7. The Internet Is For Porn - Stephanie D'Abruzzo, Rick Lyon & the Guys
- 8. Mix Tape - Stephanie D'Abruzzo, John Tartaglia
- 9. I'm Not Wearing Underwear Today - Jordan Gelber with Ann Harada
- 10. Special - Stephanie D'Abruzzo with the Guys
- 11. You Can Be as Loud as the Hell You Want (When You're Makin' Love) - Natalie Venetia Belcon, Rick Lyon, Jennifer Barnhart & Ensemble with Stephanie D'Abruzzo, John Tartaglia, Jordan Gelber, Ann Harada
- 12. Come True - John Tartaglia, Stephanie D'Abruzzo with Rick Lyon
- 13. My Girlfriend, Who Lives in Canada - John Tartaglia
- 14. There's a Fine, Fine Line - Stephanie D'Abruzzo
- 15. There Is Life Outside Your Apartment - Jordan Gelber, John Tartaglia & Company
- 16. The More You Ruv Someone - Ann Harada, Stephanie D'Abruzzo
- 17. Schadenfreude - Natalie Venetia Belcon, Rick Lyon
- 18. I Wish I Could Go Back to College - Stephanie D'Abruzzo, Rick Lyon, John Tartaglia
- 19. The Money Song - Rick Lyon, John Tartaglia, Natalie Venetia Belcon with Jordan Gelber, Ann Harada, Jennifer Barnhart
- 20. School for Monsters/The Money Song (Reprise) - Rick Lyon & Company
- 21. There's A Fine, Fine Line (Reprise) - John Tartaglia, Stephanie D'Abruzzo with Ann Harada
- 22. What Do You Do With A B.A. In English? (Reprise) - Rick Lyon with Natalie Venetia Belcon, John Tartaglia, Stephanie D'Abruzzo, Jordan Gelber & Jennifer Barnhart
- 23. For Now - Stephanie D'Abruzzo, Jordan Gelber, Natalie Venetia Belcon, Ann Harada, Rick Lyon, John Tartaglia, Jennifer Barnhart
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AVENUE Q is a musical that has been running on Broadway since 2003 and is currently the 25th longest running musical in Broadway history and it has won 3 Tony Awards including BEST MUSICAL. The show is largely inspired by (and in the style of) Sesame Street.for adults. Most of the characters are puppets (operated by actors onstage). The characters use profanity and the songs concern adult themes. AVENUE Q is the story of Princeton, a bright-eyed college grad who comes to New York City with big dreams and a tiny bank account. He soon discovers that the only neighborhood in his price range is Avenue Q; still, the neighbors seem nice. There's Brian the out-of-work comedian and his therapist fiance‚ Christmas Eve; Nicky the good-hearted slacker and his roommate Rod -- a Republican investment banker who seems to have some sort of secret; an Internet addict called Trekkie Monster; and a very cute kindergarten teaching assistant named Kate. And would you believe the building's superintendent is Gary Coleman?!? (Yes, that Gary Coleman.) Together, Princeton and his newfound friends struggle to find jobs, dates, and their ever-elusive purpose in life.
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Avenue Q will only fuel the frustration of those who think that Broadway has given up on sophisticated entertainment geared to adults. "Whatever happened to Cole Porter's witty rhymes and mature subject matter?" they'll say. Well, it's hard to deny that Avenue Q's main frame of reference is Sesame Street and that its humor can be very broad--yes, there's profanity and puppet sex. But the show also displays heart ("The More You Ruv Someone" typically begins with "Why can't people get along?") and a pretty satisfying zany streak. Musically, the score is rooted in 1970s pop, with nods to the aforementioned Sesame Street. The excellent cast, dominated by John Tartaglia and Stephanie D'Abruzzo, does it justice, milking the humorous numbers for all they're worth and finding pathos in the more straightforward ones. Not bad for a childish show. --Elisabeth Vincentelli
Product Details
Avenue Q (2003 Original Broadway Cast)
- Audio CD: 0 pages (2003-10-07)
- Publisher: RCA Victor Broadway
- Label: RCA Victor Broadway
- Format: Cast Recording, Explicit Lyrics
- Studio: RCA Victor Broadway
- Sales Rank in Music: #1518
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148 of 154 people found the following review helpful:  An absolutely hysterically funny musical!, By This review is from: Avenue Q (2003 Original Broadway Cast) (Audio CD) My wife and I just saw this on Broadway last week. It was one of those wipe-the-tears-of laughter from my eyes experience.
The standard description for the show has been "Sesame Street meets South Park", because the puppets, the setting and the music all are OBVIOUSLY Jim Henson-inspired, and because it is gleefully bawdy and offensive in an equal-opportunity kind of way. While that is true, I found that the true similarity lies within the amount of truth and humanity all three have. Things are said, and ideas proposed, that would be inappropriate for "humans" to say. Seeing "puppets" talk about racism, porn, homosexuality, poverty and love enables you to look at it from a slightly different angle, and you'll learn a little bit more about yourself without even trying. That is, if you can stop from laughing so dang loud. The cast album perfectly captures the show, including just enough of the dialogue to give you the gist of the entire production. The vocal...Read more 65 of 71 people found the following review helpful: Absolutely brilliant, off-the-wall send up of Sesame Street!, By This review is from: Avenue Q (2003 Original Broadway Cast) (Audio CD) Yes, the new musical, "Avenue Q" looks like an episode of "Sesame Street," but be forewarned parents, the "Parental Advisory Warning" isn't there for no reason. This brilliant new Broadway show takes a cast of foam characters, who look suspiciously like the Muppets, and uses them to tackle decidely adult issues such as sex, pornography, racism, homosexuality, drug use, cruelty and cynicism. Ironically, this musical's most recent forebear is "Rent," and while that show told its story through rock opera while this one tells it through bouncy, cheery songs that sound like children's music but are in fact raunchy, vulgar, and most importantly, wickedly clever and satirically dead-on parodies (Think of the music to "South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut" and you'll get the general idea.), the shows' subject matters are remarkably similar, even if their overall tones couldn't be more divergent. Monsters who masturbate? Two male roommates who bring the supposed gay subtext of Bert and Ernie...Read more 46 of 50 people found the following review helpful: FUNNY Q, By This review is from: Avenue Q (2003 Original Broadway Cast) (Audio CD) Mixing Rent, Sesame Street, South Park and The Simpsons into a musical comedy and you get Avenue Q. Q has Rent's characters, Street's puppets, Park's bitting wit and a tip of the hat to Bart and Homer in its delivery. It is adult entertainment for the 70's generation who grew up watching Sesame Street. It's the back alley which we never knew, and really wanted to know about deep down. The cd makes the transfer from Broadway stage to compact disk without a problem. The Music of Avenue Q is hip, wicked and amazing funny The music is also a mesh of 70's pop rock lyrics that are character driven more than humor driven. By doing this, it makes Q funnier in scope and delivery. John Tartaglia and Stephanie D'Abruzzo head an assemble cast with a catchy soundtrack. For example, the song "The More You Ruv Someone" sound like a Muppet ballad, almost in the spirit of classic Sesame Street tunes penned by Joe Raposo with hipper modern lyrics . The cd confidently captures...Read more |
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