Wednesday, 3 April 2013

Avenue Q to receive London Fringe premiere Upstairs at the Gatehouse

Avenue Q will receive its London fringe première at fringe theatre Upstairs at the Gatehouse next month. The production opens on 21st May (previews from 16th May) and runs until 30th June 2013. 

The adult Sesame Street-style show, written by Robert Lopez and Jeff Marx, follows recent graduate Princeton through his struggles of living in New York with nothing but a BA in English. He and his neighbours, both people and puppets, struggle through life on Avenue Q - most of them only there because it’s all they can afford.

Avenue Q premiered in 2003 at the off-Broadway Vineyard Theatre and transferred to Broadway later that year. The show won three Tony Awards in 2004 for Best New Musical, Best Book of a Musical and Best Original Score.

The show transferred to the West End in 2006. After opening at the Noël Coward Theatre the show eventually transferred to the Gielgud Theatre and then to the Wyndham's Theatre before closing in October 2010. The show has since toured the UK several times.

The London fringe première is produced by Ovation, Upstairs at the Gatehouse's in-house company who produce several shows each year.

Casting to be announced soon.

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