TV: Watch The Cast of AVENUE Q Debate As Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump

The CLINTON and TRUMP puppets made their debut in a Town Hall-style debate - which was a preview to the actual first scheduled debate between Mrs. Clinton and Mr. Trump, yesterday. BroadwayWorld was on had to exclusively live stream the event on Facebook!

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If you're one of those people who feels as though this Presidential election campaign has been a "joke" or "no laughing matter" or somewhere in between, take heart: the long-running, Tony Award-winning musical comedy AVENUE Q (now in its 13th year in NYC) is entering the race, as it were, with the addition of a Hillary Clinton puppet and Donald Trump puppet to its Acting Company of people and puppets.

The debate was attended by select members of the public, along with members of the AVENUE Q cast including ROD (the closeted, Republican Wall Street investment banker), LUCY (who bears a striking resemblance to Melania Trump),Trekkie Monster (noted for his savvy money-making schemes on the internet peddling in porn), CHRISTMAS EVE (a Japanese psychotherapist with immigration, language and assimilation issues), and others.

Resident director Jen Bender notes that the storyline in AVENUE Q - about a bunch of 20 somethings in NYC just out of college, trying to find their purpose in life -- itself addresses, in its smart, savvy and hilarious way, issues of concern to voters in the 2016 election: race, unemployment, religion and LGBT matters.