Aimless college grads still need their own Sesame Street.
This clever 2003 Broadway hit by songwriters Jeff Marx and Robert Lopez and
playwright Jeff Whitty, now in a breezy, intimate staging by director L.
Walter Stearns at Mercury Theater, is the story of Princeton, a 23-year-old
college grad with no job, no girlfriend, and no sense of purpose. After
moving to Avenue Q, a fictional slum on Manhattan's Lower East Side,
Princeton meets plucky but lonely Kate Monster, a kindergarten teaching
assistant with dreams of opening a school for monsters like herself—or
"people of fur," in her words.…
Aimless college grads still need their own Sesame Street.
This clever 2003 Broadway hit by songwriters Jeff Marx and Robert Lopez and
playwright Jeff Whitty, now in a breezy, intimate staging by director L.
Walter Stearns at Mercury Theater, is the story of Princeton, a 23-year-old
college grad with no job, no girlfriend, and no sense of purpose. After
moving to Avenue Q, a fictional slum on Manhattan's Lower East Side,
Princeton meets plucky but lonely Kate Monster, a kindergarten teaching
assistant with dreams of opening a school for monsters like herself—or
"people of fur," in her words.…