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AVENUE Q SWINGS!
Source: Playbill.com
Avenue Q's Tony-winning composers, Robert Lopez and Jeff Marx, hosted a special evening at the Lucille Lortel Theatre to benefit the Greenwich House Music School's Piano Fund.
The June 27 evening featured the Tony-winning Avenue Q score performed in jazz, classical and "other surprising arrangements." Mary Ann McSweeney, who plays bass in the Avenue Q orchestra, will be the musical director for the concert, which will boast a host of special guest stars to be announced at a later date...
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LIGHTS ARE BRIGHT ON 'AVENUE Q'
Source: Yale Daily News
With graduation looming just over a month away, many nervous seniors may find that the first song in the hit Broadway musical "Avenue Q," "What can I do with a B.A. in English?" hits just a bit too close to home.
But it is at least a little heartening to know that in the case of Bobby Lopez '97, the writer of that song, the answer to that question was to become a Tony Award-winning composer...
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Q's TARTAGLIA ADDS SECOND PUPPETRY MASTER CLASS
Source: Playbill.com
John Tartaglia, who earned a Tony Award nomination for his performance in the puppet-filled musical Avenue Q , recently announced that he would offer some tricks of his trade during a five-week intensive master class in theatre and children's television-style puppetry.
Response to the master class has been so overwhelming that the young actor has added a second master class. The second class will be held on the same dates - Saturdays, May 7-June 4 - from 1:30-4:30 PM. The weekly three-hour course will focus on the types of puppetry that can be found today on Broadway and on children's television programs...
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WHAT IS AVENUE Q? FOR $1,600
If you missed us on JEOPARDY! see if you know the answer to this Double JEOPARDY question, from the Ultimate Tournament of Champions...
The category is: "Broadway Musical Settings" $1,600...
"I'm Kate Monster, and in 'Avenue Q', atop this famous skyscraper, I sing 'I wish I could go back to college'".
The answer, of course, is the Empire State Building.
AVENUE Q NOMINATED FOR GRAMMY AWARD
Avenue Q was nominated for the Best Musical Show Album Grammy award!
Best Musical Show Album Nomination
Avenue Q - The Musical
Jay David Saks, producer; Robert Lopez & Jeff Marx, composers/lyricists (Original Broadway Cast Recording With Stephanie D'Abuzzo, John Tartaglia & Others)
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THANKSGIVING DAY Parade!
John Tartaglia and Rod appeared at the CBS (local Channel 2) anchor desk for an interview segment with weatherman (and Parade anchor) Dave Price on Thanksgiving Day, November 25, 2004 for CBS-TV's national coverage of the Thanksgiving Day Parade.
TONY WINNING AVENUE Q COMPOSERS
JEFF MARX & ROBERT LOPEZ
PERFOMRED IN CONCERT AT
BIRDLAND NOV. 29, 2004
On November 29, 2004, the Tony Award-winning songwriting team Robert Lopez and Jeff Marx sang their hit songs from Avenue Q, along with some unknown "trunk songs" at Birdland (315 West 44th Street). This was the first time the duo performed a full concert in public. They were also joined on stage by some Extremely Special Guests! The evening was part of The Winter Season, presented by Jim Caruso in association with TheaterMania.com, which features top Broadway and cabaret performers at the world-class music room.
Robert Lopez and Jeff Marx created and wrote all the songs for the hit Broadway musical Avenue Q, which won the 2004 Tony Awards for Best Original Score, Best Book of a Musical, and Best Musical. Before it moved to Broadway, Avenue Q enjoyed a sold-out run Off-Broadway at the Vineyard Theatre, where it received the season's Lucille Lortel Award for Best Musical. In 2000, Bobby and Jeff won the coveted Ed Kleban Award for Lyrics for Kermit, Prince of Denmark, a proposed Muppet Movie based very, very loosely on Hamlet. They wrote and orchestrated two shows for Theatreworks/USA (Reading Rainbow and Ferdinand The Bull), plus a handful of children's songs for The Disney Channel. They are currently working on a musical comedy film for Universal Pictures, and a stage musical based on a particular religion with Matt Stone and Trey Parker from South Park. The writing team is eagerly anticipating the September 2005 opening of a second company of Avenue Q in Steve Wynn's new hotel, Wynn Las Vegas. Jeff and Bobby both write lyrics and they both write music, together, in the same room, at the same time. They met in 1998 in the BMI Workshop, which they recommend highly to any aspiring musical theater writers.
BIRDLAND has been a world-class music room on the Manhattan nightclub scene since 1949. Jazz superstars Sarah Vaughan, Count Basie, Dinah Washington, and more recently Ann Hampton Callaway, Diana Krall, John Pizzarelli and Tito Puente have all performed on the BIRDLAND stage. The room offers top-flight music in a world class setting, good sight lines and acoustics, and a menu featuring award-winning Southern cuisine. Most recently, it's become the home of Jim Caruso's Cast Party, the weekly Monday late night showbiz gathering featuring impromptu performances by the Broadway, jazz and nightclub crème de la crème.
Congratulations Ann Harada!
Elvis Harada Litman was born at 4 AM November 1st at St. Luke's Roosevelt Hospital, weighing 5 lbs. 9 oz. and measuring 18.5 inches.. Harada says, "You will not be surprised to hear that we were playing the Avenue Q CD during the delivery. I thought he would feel more at home, and he made his appearance during 'There Is Life Outside Your Apartment.'"
Avenue Q's Tartaglia to Offer Joe's Pub Concert in 2005
Link: http://www.playbill.com/news/article/89451.html
Avenue Q Appeared on FX's new hit show "Rescue Me"
AVENUE Q&A PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE
Bush and Kerry (Puppets) Battled it out on Broadway at Times Square Avenue Q Debate
Link: http://www.playbill.com/news/article/88733.html
Puppets to Debate - And We Don't Mean Bush and Kerry
Link: gothamist.com
AVENUE Q PERFORMED
ON JERRY LEWIS TELETHON
AVENUE Q performed "For Now" on the nationally-televised JERRY LEWIS TELETHON for the Muscular Dystrophy Association on Sunday, Sept. 5, 2004.
AVENUE
Q WON THREE 2004 TONY AWARDS INCLUDING BEST MUSICAL!
Congratulations
to the cast and crew for receiving THREE 2004 TONY AWARDS
including Best Musical, Best Book of a Musical and Best Original
Score.
AVENUE
Q NOMINATED FOR Six 2004 Tony Awards!
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 Congratulations
to Allan Ludgate -- the winner of the AVENUE Q "Everyone
can afford to live on Avenue Q - Win a Free Month's Rent"
contest!
Allan
entered the contest when he came to see the show on January
11th, 2003. Here's a pic of him and his family receiving their
prize. CONGRATS ALLAN!
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AVENUE Q's Tartaglia
Hosted All-Star Snoopy! Concert
John
Tartaglia, who portrays Princeton and Rod in the hit new musical
Avenue Q, hosted the all-star concert presentation of Snoopy!
April 12, 2004 at the Peter Norton Symphony Space.
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AVENUE Q Stars Headed
to the Chatterbox March 18, 2004
Rick
Lyon and Jordan Gelber, who currently star in the hit musical Avenue Q, sat down for a chat with host Seth
Rudetsky at the March 18, 2004 edition of Seth's Broadway Chatterbox.
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AVENUE Q Nominated
For NY GLAAD Media Award
Avenue
Q was nominated NY GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding NY Theatre
Broadway and Off-Broadway.
VH-1’s “Totally
Gayer” Documentary Features AVENUE Q Stars
Bigger,
harder, sassier and sexier than ever, Totally Gayer is the
colorful follow-up to the highly successful and hugely popular
Totally Gay on VH-1.
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AVENUE Q's Mirena
Rada Won Award for Theatrical Costume Design
MIRENA RADA, who
designed the costumes for Avenue Q,
was named to receive the TDF/Irene Sharaff Young Master Award.
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AVENUE Q's Tartaglia
Is a Hollywood Square
 John
Tartaglia, who stars as both Princeton and Rod in the hit
new musical Avenue Q, held a spot in the syndicated game
show "Hollywood Squares."
AVENUE Q Star Harada
Stepped into the Spotlight Feb. 2
 Ann
Harada, The Avenue Q star, appeared in the intimate
concert series, which is produced by Ars Nova and sponsored
by Broadway.com.
AVENUE Q Composers
Headed to the Chatterbox Jan. 22, 2004
Robert Lopez and Jeff Marx,
who wrote the score for the hit Broadway musical Avenue Q,
sat down for a chat with host Seth Rudetsky at the Jan. 22
edition of Seth's Broadway Chatterbox.
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AVENUE Q Welcomes
THE BOY FROM OZ, WICKED, TABOO and NEVER GONNA DANCE to Broadway
AVENUE Q Tickets Presented
on Queer Eye For The Straight Guy
Tickets to Avenue Q are presented
to the straight guy as part of his cultural makeover on Tuesday,
December 2 on Bravo at 10pm.
AVENUE Q Appeared
on NBC's Weekend Today Program.
NBC's national Weekend Today
program had a segment with Avenue Q actors and puppets
as they played "Santa's Helpers," gathering gifts
from the audience as part of NBC's annual Holiday gift drive
on December 7, 2004.
AVENUE Q Cast Celebrates Album
Release
On October 13, 2004 at Tower
Records on Broadway, the cast of AVENUE Q celebrated the release
of the Broadway production cast album. The cast album is now
available and can be purchased online by clicking
here.
AVENUE Q Featured on an Episode
of MTV’s Made
Avenue Q was featured on MTV's
Made, a show where one willing candidate desperately wants
to transform his or her life, and is willing to do just about
anything to achieve that transformation.
AVENUE Q Actor’s
Fund Benefit Performance
On December 11, 2004
AVENUE Q did a special performance to benefit Actor's
Fund.
The AVENUE Q
Cast Album Reached Billboard Top 20 List
The cast album for the Broadway
production of Avenue Q made the top Billboard Top
20 Internet Chart!
AVENUE Q Performed on the TODAY SHOW on NBC!
Avenue Q performed on the Today
Show on August 19, 2004.
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AVENUE Q Performed
in 'Broadway in Bryant Park!'
Avenue Q performed as part
of Lite FM's Broadway in Bryant Park series on Thursday, August
21st.
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Macy's Herald
Square Celebrates the Arrival of AVENUE Q on Broadway!
Avenue Q was featured in a window
at Macy's Herald Square!
.
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here to see an enlarged view.
Equity's "GYPSY
ROBE" Presented to Carmen Ruby Floyd in AVENUE Q
Photo:
Walter McBride/Retna |
CARMEN RUBY FLOYD is the second
recipient of Actors' Equity's famous "Gypsy Robe"
for the 2003-2004 Broadway season. The colorful icon was presented
on the opening night (Thursday, July 31, 2003) of AVENUE Q,
recreating an historic, theatrical ritual that began on Broadway
over 50 years ago.
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