AVENUE Q's Lopez Auctions Original Song About Highest Bidder

Robert Lopez, the Tony-winning composer of Avenue Q, is using his songwriting talents to benefit an Off-Broadway theater. Lopez will write an original song for and about the highest bidder at BiddingForGood.com.

According to the site: "Tony Award-winning Composer-Lyricist Robert Lopez is well known for his work with everybody's favorite inappropriate puppets on Avenue Q, but his newest work is very hush-hush. Our insider sources tell us the story revolves around a charming, intelligent, attractive individual who comes to the attention of a celebrated off-Broadway theater when he or she bids generously on said theater company's auction. Wait...does that sound familiar? Well, it should. Robert Lopez is writing a song just for you! Lopez managed to spin his post-college confusion into Broadway gold. Let him transform your bad habits into harmony, melancholy into melody, and secret longings into showstoppers."

The auction will end today, April 29, at 10:00 PM - for your chance to enter, click here.

Robert Lopez won the 2004 Tony Award for Best Score for Avenue Q, which has been produced in New York, Vegas, London, Stockholm, Helsinki, and is now on tour. Lopez's musical version of Finding Nemo, co-written with his wife Kristen Anderson-Lopez, is currently playing in Walt Disney World. In 2007, he co-wrote songs for a musical episode of NBC's "Scrubs." He and his brother Billy Lopez have written music for Nick Jr's "The Wonder Pets!" and Disney's "Johnny and the Sprites." Bobby is busy at work on lots of new projects. He grew up in Greenwich Village, graduated Yale 1997 (with a BA in English!) and now lives in Brooklyn with his wife and daughter.

Currently running Off-Broadway at New World Stages, Avenue Q is the story of Princeton, a bright-eyed college grad who comes to New York City with big dreams and a tiny bank account. He soon discovers that the only neighborhood in his price range is Avenue Q; still, the neighbors seem nice. There's Brian the out-of-work comedian and his therapist fianceé Christmas Eve; Nicky the good-hearted slacker and his roommate Rod -- a Republican investment banker who seems to have some sort of secret; an Internet addict called Trekkie Monster; and a very cute kindergarten teaching assistant named Kate. And would you believe the building's superintendent is Gary Coleman?!? (Yes, that Gary Coleman.) Together, Princeton and his newfound friends struggle to find jobs, dates, and their ever-elusive purpose in life. For more information, visit http://www.avenueq.com/.

Photo Credit: Peter James Zielinski