Tickets for the Las Vegas production of the Tony-winning musical Avenue Q will officially go on sale on July 1st; the show will open on September 5th (Labor Day) at the Wynn Las Vegas resort.
The Wynn's $40 million theatre has a 1,200 seating capacity--about 400 seats larger than the John Golden Theatre, where the charming R-rated musical puppet show continues to run in its Broadway incarnation after opening on July 31st, 2003. The Wynn Las Vegas itself is a new $2.7 billion casino that opened on April 28th.Avenue Q producers are also scouting out a London theatre to which to transfer the show, which won the Best Musical Tony in 2004, as well as Best Book (Jeff Whitty) and Best Score (Jeff Marx and Robert Lopez). Jason Moore directed the Broadway production, and Garry Adler served up the musical direction. John Tartaglia, Stephanie D'Abruzzo, Rick Lyon, Ann Harada and Jennifer Barnhart were among the puppeteers and performers of the original cast.A send-up of Sesame Street and other children's shows, Avenue Q mixes profanity and tenderness in its story of wordly but still hopeful puppets and humans looking for love, success and purpose.
The Wynn is located at 3131 Las Vegas Blvd. South in
Las Vegas, NV. For more information on ticket sales, For more information, call (702) 770-7000 or toll free (888) 320-7123, or visit the website at www.wynnlasvegas.com.The Golden Theatre is located at 252 West 45th Street. For more information on Avenue Q, visit www.avenueq.com.
