AVENUE Q Celebrates 1000 Performances at New World Stages Today
By: BWW News Desk Mar. 14, 2012
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The Tony Award winning musical AVENUE Q -- which played a 6-year run on Broadway before moving to New World Stages over two years ago -- will celebrate its 1000th performance at New World Stages (340 W. 50 St.) today.
AVENUE Q will reach a combined total number of 3, 534 performances -- 2,534 on Broadway and 1000 at New World Stages -- placing the show in the company of such beloved, long-running musicals from the past as 42ND STREET (3,486), GREASE (3,388) and FIDDLER ON THE ROOF (3,242).
The current cast of AVENUE Q is Lexy Fridell, Nicholas Kohn, Veronica J. Kuehn, Rob Morrison, Hazel Anne Raymundo, Jeffrey David Sears and Haneefah Wood.AVENUE Q has music and lyrics by Robert Lopez and Jeff Marx, book by Jeff Whitty, and is directed by Jason Moore. Based on an original concept by Robert Lopez and Jeff Marx, with puppets conceived and designed by Rick Lyon, AVENUE Q has musical supervision by Stephen Oremus, choreography by Ken Roberson, scenic design by Anna Louizos, costume design by Mirena Rada, lighting design by Howell Binkley, and sound design by ACME Sound Partners.Videos