AVENUE Q Questions - The Money Song & George Bush- Page 2

[Broadwaynerd101]

re: AVENUE Q Questions - The Money Song & George Bush#25

Posted: 9/21/08 at 11:54am

I emailed Rick Lyon off his website for some reason (I forgot what.) I asked him the George Bush question and he said

"We'll change it to whoever the President is. Remember, it's not a slam against Bush. It's just a joke towards whoever is president!"

[george95]

re: AVENUE Q Questions - The Money Song & George Bush#26

Posted: 9/21/08 at 12:38pm

Actually, Weez, it was not a question of geography. The 9 times that I saw the show on tour in Chicago, it was always kept as "Hicksville". It was the Broadway production that I saw use "Jersey" instead about 3 or 4 times. So you are incorrect about the NY cast keeping it as Hicksville but the tour not changing it.

[wicked_beast4]

re: AVENUE Q Questions - The Money Song & George Bush#27

Posted: 9/21/08 at 12:42pm

I doubt "Obama! is only for now" will get as many laughs.

"He found something that he wanted, had always wanted and always would want— not to be admired, as he had feared; not to be loved, as he had made himself believe; but to be necessary to people, to be indispensable." -F. Scott Fitzgerald's This Side of Paradise

[LePetiteFromage]

#28

Posted: 9/21/08 at 2:01pm

Updated On: 5/1/09 at 02:01 PM

[Parks]

re: AVENUE Q Questions - The Money Song & George Bush#29

Posted: 9/21/08 at 3:19pm

Did they change the Bush line for Texas? I would have loved to have been in that audience! :P

"If it walks like a Parks, if it wobbles like a Parks, then it's definitely fat and nobody loves it." --MA

[george95]

re: AVENUE Q Questions - The Money Song & George Bush#30

Posted: 9/21/08 at 5:23pm

Ok, I never said that ONLY Americans should get the Bush joke in Avenue Q. Weez said that it goes over BETTER in England than in America. ALL I said was that I found that hard to believe since the joke goes OVER so well in New York, the only way it could be even BETTER in England is if the audience laughed themselves to death or something I guess. Sheesh why is up with everybody today.

[winston89]

re: AVENUE Q Questions - The Money Song & George Bush#31

Posted: 9/21/08 at 5:52pm

I remember reading somewhere the the Jersey line was used in the tour and in international productions such as the original West End one. This was because international audiences would know what Jersey/New Jersey is but people that don't live in NY might not get the Hicksville joke because a lot of those people don't even know what Hicksville is.

I remember reading that Larson said that Maureen was from Hicksville only after finding out that Menzel herself was from Long Island. I don't think that was the original line Larson came up with.

"If you try to shag my husband while I am still alive, I will shove the art of motorcycle maintenance up your rancid little Cu**. That's a good dear" Tom Stoppard's Rock N Roll

[Shannon Bo Dannon]

re: AVENUE Q Questions - The Money Song & George Bush#32

Posted: 9/21/08 at 5:58pm

"Did they change the Bush line for Texas? I would have loved to have been in that audience! :P"


No they kept it in, and it got HUGE laughs and cheers.

[whatever2]

re: AVENUE Q Questions - The Money Song & George Bush#33

Posted: 9/21/08 at 7:55pm

> Hicksville the town is quite different from Hicksville the concept.

um, not very.

"You, sir, are a moron." (PlayItAgain)