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Tonight, I will be heading to the west end to attend the opening night of Avenue Q.
It's a Musical, the style is Sesame Street-esque with puppets and jolly tunes, but with song titles like

Everyone's A Little Bit Racist
If You Were Gay
What Do You Do With A B.A. In English
You Can Be As Loud As The Hell You Want (When You're Making Love)
It Sucks To Be Me
and
The Internet Is For Porn (sung by the net-addict Trekki Monster)

the
audience will not have many kiddiewinkies in it, not unless parents
failed to research the subject matter before booking tickets.

Anyway,
the opening night - either the cast are going to be nervous and fluff
their lines from inexerperience or they will be buzzing from the
first-night adrenaline. Either way it'll be good fun. I know the words
to most of the songs already (thanks to drama-queen having given me the
soundtrack about six months ago). There are several songs that have
struck chords with me.

I shall tell you all about it tomorrow.

1.6.06 14:14

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Fan-bloody-tastic! You must go see it. Although if puppets having sex on stage is offensive to you, then you should still go see it, but cover your eyes for that bit. It's essential to the plot and flippin' hilarious.

Rod and Nicky

If you grew up with Sesame street, this will hit all sorts of buttons with you. Some of the characters are different but recognisable. Trekkie Monster is obsessed with the internet (and porn) rather than cookies and Rod and Nicky (pictured) share an apartment and are best friends (and is one of them gay?) Kate Monster and Princeton are the main characters and you'll love the bad idea bears. "buy beer - YEAH!!!"

My favourite character/cast member has to be the Asian American called Christmas Eve (not a puppet, Avenue Q mixes actors with puppets, just like in Sesame Street). the actress played the part in the Broadway production and is far and away the best. You find yourself laughing without her even having delivered her line yet.

The audience were clearly loving it as the theatre was aroar with laughter and applause throughout the show, so I wasn't surpised when they got a standing ovation at the end.

Fantastic, Brilliant, I can see why it won the Tony and you'll love. Go see it. You must.

For Porn

2.6.06 10:23

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I deliberately ate lightly yesterday as I knew Landlord and I would be heading to London after work to see Avenue Q. Once we'd found the theatre we went to find food and Pizza seemed an easy choice. I ordered an apple juice (my usual drink) and Landlord ordered a half bottle of Shiraz. The waiter poured some for Landlord and some for me. I think Landlord was a little put out when I refused to hand over
my glass of red. It went very well with the pizza. I had the first glass on an empty stomach.

I finished my pizza and wine and then realised I still had my apple juice, which I downed in one.

And then it hit me. The room didn't spin but it gave a slight half turn. "I think that apple juice has gone RIGHT to my head", I said and realised this sounded awfully like Landlord's "the bread gave me a hangover" but fortunately the effect didn't even last to the restaurant door. It was quite nice though - I've not felt tipsy since, um, 1998 I think.

2.6.06 13:09

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