Sayaka Mizusawa, Trekkie Monster and Fiona Soul, where the air isn't sweet.
Remember Sesame Street, where it's always a sunny day and everything's A-OK? (Except maybe for the day kindly old Mr. Hooper died and Big Bird was really sad.) Avenue Q ain't that kind of street. As you might expect from a show co-created by The Book of Mormon Tony winner Robert Lopez, this is a wised-up thoroughfare where dejected adults survey their disappointing lives with the aid of foul-mouthed puppets who do a lot more than tickle Elmo.
It's a comedy, it's a musical, and it's opening tonight for its first local production through April 15 at Street Theatre Company, who just finished a sellout run of The Who's Tommy. Curious about the logistics of putting on a puppet musical for adults — we repeat, FOR ADULTS — we asked Brian Hull, who helped design the puppets and train the actors operating them, to discuss some of the challenges of a production that requires full puppet nudity.
