AVENUE Q Announces 3,000th Performance Contest Winners

Winners have been announced for Avenue Q's contest to suggest what is in the box that the musical's Hillary Clinton puppet is giving to the Donald Trump puppet in the photo to the left.

The contest was held on the occasion of Avenue Q's having reached the 3000 performance mark at New World Stages (340 West 50th Street, NY, NY 10019) on Wednesday, January 4. Winners will receive a pair of tickets for the pre-show, performance and after-party when Avenue Q celebrates its 13th birthday with a Bat/Bar Mitzvah-style event on January 12 at New World Stages.

The top 5 winning entries for the CLINTON-TRUMP photo contest are:

Mike Hallinan: The BluRay/DVD/ HD combo pack of From Russia With Love

Keira Todd: A coupon for a Lucy The Slut lap dance?

Judy Stachow: An old set of keys to the White House. The locks have all been changed so the Trumps can't get in

Danny Moon: A toupée with grey streaks so it looks like he did something after 4 years.

Hayley Goldstein: Fake nuclear codes.

The winners of Avenue Q's photo contest were announced, January 4th by the show's own pop culture and top political pundits, puppets Rod and Lucy The Slut. Check out the video!

The prize for each winner includes two (2) tickets to Avenue Q in New York City for the Thursday, January 12 at 8pm performance and pre and post-show festivities for the performance which will be celebrated bar-mitzvah/bat-mitzvah style as the musical turns 13, and begins its 14th year on New York stages!

AVENUE Q is the Tony Award winning musical featuring a cast of people and puppets, now in its 13th year on stage in NYC and around the globe. Avenue Q performs at New World Stages in New York - a complete holiday schedule can be found below and at the shows website: www.avenueq.com

AVENUE Q is the hilarious and internationally-acclaimed musical about a group of 20-somethings - people and puppets alike - who move to New York with big dreams and tiny bank accounts. Together they live as neighbors on a rundown block in NYC as they try to discover their purpose in life. The musical's characters include Princeton, Kate Monster, Trekkie Monster, Lucy The Slut, Nicky, Rod, Gary Coleman, the Bad Idea Bears, Brian and Christmas Eve.

Prior to its current engagement at New World Stages, Avenue Q played 2534 performances on Broadway at the Golden Theatre, making the musical's staggering grand total of 5,534 performances in NYC come January 4.)

Over the course of it's 13 years the Avenue Q cast and puppets have been featured 3 times on GOOD MORNING AMERICA, LIVE WITH REGIS AND KELLY (including the debut of Regis Philbin, Kelly Ripa and Michael Gelman puppets), LATE SHOW WITH Jimmy Fallon, THE VIEW, JEOPARDY!, HOLLYWOOD SQUARES, $10,000 PYRAMID, ABC 20/20, numerous appearances on the TONY AWARDS telecast as performers and presenters, QUEER EYE FOR THE STRAIGHT GUY, MTV, VHI, in promotional "Get Caught Reading" campaigns, FOX BUSINESS NEWS, on CBS SUNDAY MORNING, NEW YORK 1 NEWS, promotional spots for WCBS-TV 2, as color commentators for CBS-TV's national coverage of the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, CNN, etc.

Celebrity visitors to Avenue Q have included President Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Chelsea Clinton, Tom Hanks, Rita Wilson, Judi Dench, Michael Moore, Hilary Swank, Nicole Kidman, Bette Midler, Diana Ross, Billy Crystal, Carol Burnett, Charlton Heston, Kirk Douglas, David Bowie, Ben Folds, Clive Davis, Frank Oz, Joan Rivers, Glenn Close, Gloria Steinem, George Lucas, Hal Prince, Mike Nichols, Diane Sawyer, Barbara Walters, Katie Couric, Howard Stern, Hugh Jackman, Stephen Sondheim, Jessica Alba, Jake Gyllenhaal, Janet Jackson, Jimmy Fallon, Ben Stiller, Christine Taylor, Anne Meara, Jerry Stiller, Macauley Culkin, Lauren Bacall, Matt Stone,Trey Parker, Jeffrey Katzenberg, Robert Zemeckis, Bruce Vilanch, Sean Penn, Elijah Wood,Bobby McFerrin, Martin Lawrence, Megan Mullaly, Danny DeVito, Rhea Perlman, David Hyde Pierce, Nathan Lane, Rosie O'Donnell, David Schwimmer, Angela Bassett, Jeff Daniels, Zac Efron, Christian Slater, Kathleen Turner and Uma Thurman.

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 byMirena Rada, lighting design by Howell Binkley, and sound design by ACME Sound Partners. Musical director is Rick Bertone. Animation design is by Robert Lopez, incidental music is by Gary Adler, casting is by Cindy Tolan.

Christine M. Daly is Production Stage Manager

The current cast of Avenue Q includes Ben Durocher, Elizabeth Ann Berg, GRACE CHOI, Jason Jacoby, Nicholas Kohn, Danielle K. Thomas, Kerri Brackin, Jed Resnick, Katie Boren, Michael Liscio, Jr. and Imari Hardon.

AVENUE Q became an overnight sensation on Broadway in July 2003 following a sold-out engagement -- extended four times -- presented Off-Broadway by Vineyard Theatre and TheNew Group.

AVENUE Q is produced at New World Stages, as it was on Broadway, by Kevin McCollum,Robyn Goodman, Jeffrey Seller, The Vineyard Theatre and The New Group.

At the 499-seat theatre at New World Stages, Avenue Q performs Mondays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays at 8:00pm, Saturdays at 2:30 pm and 8:00pm and Sundays at 3:00pm and 7:30 pm. Tickets can be purchased through Tele Charge 212-239-6200 or www.telecharge.com. A limited number of rush tickets are available at the box office for each performance.

For more information visit: www.avenueq.com.

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