‘Avenue Q’ To End In 2019 After 15 Years

No more puppets on Broadway…with the exception being most behind-the-scene execs.

After over 6,000 performances, Avenue Q will officially bow from Broadway on April 28, 2019.

Avenue Q is an “autobiographical and biographical” coming-of-age parable, addressing and satirizing the issues and anxieties associated with entering adulthood. Its characters lament that as children, they were assured by their parents, and by children’s television programs such as PBS’s Sesame Street, that they were “special” and “could do anything”; but as adults, they have discovered to their surprise and dismay that in the real world their options are limited, and they are no more “special” than anyone else. The musical is notable for the use of puppets, animated by unconcealed puppeteers, alongside human actors.

You can read our review of the musical here.