Avenue Q School Edition
Avenue Q School Edition
eatlasagna
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/6/04
#1Avenue Q School Edition
Posted: 5/25/11 at 3:57pm
interesting... does anyone know anything else about this? is the new song the same melody as the internet is for porn but with different lyrics??
http://www.playbill.com/news/article/151187-Avenue-Q-School-Edition-Will-Feature-Social-Life-Is-Online-In-Place-of-Internet-Is-for-Porn
#2Avenue Q School Edition
Posted: 5/25/11 at 4:45pm
Here's a link to the video on Youtube--same melody--new lyrics.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNHCpfnZRMM&NR=1
blaxx
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/28/05
#2Avenue Q School Edition
Posted: 5/25/11 at 4:50pmThat's pathetic. Money makes the world go round.
Listen, I don't take my clothes off for anyone, even if it is "artistic". - JANICE
bwayfan7000
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/28/09
#3Avenue Q School Edition
Posted: 5/25/11 at 4:55pmSo much of the show seems to have been cut. Some school editions work (such as RENT, which only cuts Contact and a handful of lines), but some don't. This one seems like it just won't.
"Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos."-Stephen Sondheim
#4Avenue Q School Edition
Posted: 5/25/11 at 4:56pmIf you have to have to completely rewrite and change the songs, maybe that's a good sign that there just shouldn't be a school edition.
"There’s nothing quite like the power and the passion of Broadway music. "
#5Avenue Q School Edition
Posted: 5/25/11 at 5:03pmhttp://www.talkinbroadway.com/allthatchat/d.php?id=1977156
"This thread reads like a series of White House memos." — Mister Matt
jacobsnchz14
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/13/06
#6Avenue Q School Edition
Posted: 5/25/11 at 5:09pm
Rehearsal video from MTI featuring "My Social Life is Online"
http://www.mtishowspace.com/videos/304504/my-social-life-is-online-brand-new-song-for-avenue-q-school-edition
No comment.
#7Avenue Q School Edition
Posted: 5/25/11 at 5:18pmThis is the dumbest sh*t I've ever heard of.
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Phyllis Rogers Stone
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/16/07
#8Avenue Q School Edition
Posted: 5/25/11 at 5:32pmDo you guys go to a lot of school plays or something? I don't understand why this has people all lathered up.
AEA AGMA SM
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/13/09
#9Avenue Q School Edition
Posted: 5/25/11 at 5:48pmBecause high school theatre should look exactly like Broadway, Phyllis! You should know that!
LuPonatic
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/12/06
#10Avenue Q School Edition
Posted: 5/25/11 at 5:53pmI can't imagine there is a huge market for this. Schools in my area have trouble with Guys and Dolls being too racy.
EvelynOakleigh
Understudy Joined: 4/23/11
#12Avenue Q School Edition
Posted: 5/25/11 at 6:35pmExcept for the last line, what the hell is wrong with "My Girlfriend Who Lives in Canada" ??
#13Avenue Q School Edition
Posted: 5/25/11 at 6:52pmDoes it work without the last line?
"You can't overrate Bernadette Peters. She is such a genius. There's a moment in "Too Many Mornings" and Bernadette doing 'I wore green the last time' - It's a voice that is just already given up - it is so sorrowful. Tragic. You can see from that moment the show is going to be headed into such dark territory and it hinges on this tiny throwaway moment of the voice." - Ben Brantley (2022)
"Bernadette's whole, stunning performance [as Rose in Gypsy] galvanized the actors capable of letting loose with her. Bernadette's Rose did take its rightful place, but too late, and unseen by too many who should have seen it" Arthur Laurents (2009)
"Sondheim's own favorite star performances? [Bernadette] Peters in ''Sunday in the Park,'' Lansbury in ''Sweeney Todd'' and ''obviously, Ethel was thrilling in 'Gypsy.'' Nytimes, 2000
SporkGoddess
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/27/05
#14Avenue Q School Edition
Posted: 5/25/11 at 7:09pm"She cooks like my mother and sucks like a hoover" is pretty suggestive.
Jimmy, what are you doing here in the middle of the night? It's almost 9 PM!
#15Avenue Q School Edition
Posted: 5/25/11 at 8:56pmAnd "there wasn't a thing that we could do but stay in bed... with her legs up over her head! Unhh!"
AdamQuinn
Understudy Joined: 2/8/11
#16Avenue Q School Edition
Posted: 5/26/11 at 1:10pm
I was actually in the first production of the school edition back in 2007. I have also seen the show numerous times and it truly is not that different. Yes two songs are fully cut and one is changed but it really does stay true to the show. While watching it people still laughed as hard and all the racy jokes are still in the show. The only line changes are very small and "F*CK" is taken out.
LuPonatic i think it totally depends on the school. I know the school I attend would do it if they wanted to but then again all schools are different. So what if a limited number of schools do it- its still more than are doing it now.
It truly is a great school edition and im quite excited to see how schools deal with it.
SporkGoddess
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/27/05
#17Avenue Q School Edition
Posted: 5/26/11 at 2:45pmWow, that new version is SUPER ridiculous.
Jimmy, what are you doing here in the middle of the night? It's almost 9 PM!
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