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Monday, March 31, 2014

Cultural Blog 3 - Avenue Q

Shepherd University Music Department put on the Tony-Winning musical Avenue Q. It was fantastic! The cast was amazingly talented. It’s hard to believe they are just students.



Avenue Q is a hilarious musical that touches on real life issues, like graduating from college and becoming an adult, which is easily relatable to my life now. The show has a mix of humans and puppet characters like Kate the girl next door, Rod the Republican, Trekkie the Internet sexpert, and Lucy the slut, who all are helping Princeton, a recent college graduate (with B.A. in English) find his purpose in life. It is basically just the grown up version of Sesame Street.




I ended up seeing the show twice, because it was that good. You can’t help but enjoy every moment. My favorite songs are “It Sucks to Be Me” and “Everyone’s a Little Bit Racist”.  I love how the show takes the more taboo things in life and just throws them all out there in the open, but I guess it’s ok to have full on sex scene if they are puppets right? Now enjoy the video below of the Broadway Cast singing "Everyone's a Little Bit Racist".





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