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Avenue Q tickets are now available and can be bought or sold online at StubHub.com. If you grew up in the ‘70s or later, you probably learned your ABCs and numbers from fuzzy, ping-pong ball-eyed monsters and animals. Sesame Street was an experiment in children’s programming meant to jump-start thinking, problem solving and interest in the arts. Anyone with fond memories of Big Bird, Bert and Ernie, Oscar the Grouch or the voracious Cookie Monster can tell you it was a touchstone in their childhood learning experiences. Sadly, we all grow up. But so have the Muppets. While they’re not affiliated with the Sesame Workshop, the puppets of the hit Broadway musical Avenue Q are obviously directly inspired by Sesame Street. Even the street where they live is a gag poking fun at the friendly urban street where you could find Mr. Hooper and monsters living together. Avenue Q is in an outer borough of New York, where a grittier version of many of the Muppets can be found (alogn with a down-and-out Gary Coleman, who acts as a landlord for a tenement building the characters live in). The characters include Rod and Nicky, a straight-laced accountant and his happy-go-lucky roommate that bear a strange resemblance in look and behavior to Bert and Ernie. The difference is that Rod is a closeted homosexual (well, that may not actually be different, but to date people can only speculate if the uptight Bert was gay or not). There’s no Cookie Monster on Avenue Q, but there is a Trekkie Monster—who’s as obsessed with porn as his inspiration was with cookies. Songs featuring Rod, Nicky, and Trekkie Monster have all become hits on YouTube, where songs from the show can be viewed (the two most viewed songs being "If You Were Gay" and "The Internet is for Porn." A list of the musical’s songs will give you an idea of the mature nature and sarcastic humor the play includes: "What Do You Do With a B.A. in English?," "Everyone’s a Little Bit Racist," and "You Can Be As Loud As The Hell You Want (When You’re Makin’ Love)." Lest those who read this think the play’s creators are ragging on the beloved Sesame Street, rest assured. The original Broadway show included several puppet operators who had actually worked on Sesame Street, and they even invited Jim Henson’s wife and children to see the show and understand it was a "love letter" to the infamous children’s show. If you haven’t gotten Avenue Q tickets before, now is your chance. The show is touring the country, so you don’t have to visit Broadway to be entertained! This article was written by Andrew Good and sponsored by StubHub. StubHub sells Avenue Q tickets as well as sports tickets, concert tickets, theater tickets and more to just about any event in the world.
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