Avenue Q... without the Puppets... WTF?

[jacobsnchz14]

Posted: 5/14/10 at 11:10pm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5J4Bsl09Rs&feature=related

The put the whole freaking show on YouTube and the guy playing Rod is literally blue, for God's sake. What the hell is this? lol.

[RKO Legend]

Posted: 5/14/10 at 11:31pm

from the tags on the video it looks like it is southport colleges version of avenue q.

[wonderwaiter]

Posted: 5/14/10 at 11:33pm

That's a college?

[rmusic11322]

Posted: 5/14/10 at 11:35pm

Face painting can only go so far.

[TheatreFan4]

Posted: 5/14/10 at 11:51pm

Well that is just horrible...

To be a fly on the wall when THIS was decided...

[willep]

Posted: 5/14/10 at 11:59pm

Wow...

[SNLMedia]

Posted: 5/14/10 at 11:59pm

That's easily one of the strangest and most disturbing things I've ever seen. There was less audience reaction than a televised execution.

Although the Brian is kind of hot.

[christian_drake]

Posted: 5/15/10 at 12:23am

I stopped it halfway through. It was that bad.
How the hell is that a college? You'd think they'd be better than most high schoolers :/ Guess not. That set was ...Bad, to say the least.

W/o the puppets, it's just weird.

[HeyMrMusic]

Posted: 5/15/10 at 12:36am

O my gosh, Christmas Eve is blonde.

~Steven

[Bettyboy72]

Posted: 5/15/10 at 12:45am

"O my gosh, Christmas Eve is blonde."

...and Caucasian singing that she is Japanese...oh dear!

[wonderwaiter]

Posted: 5/15/10 at 12:52am

And what's with their enunciation?

ETA - wait, is this from England?

Updated On: 5/15/10 at 12:52 AM

[romgitsean]

Posted: 5/15/10 at 12:56am

Why would someone even imagine doing Avenue Q without puppets? That'd be like doing Rocky Horror but censoring all the sex...

That was probably the strangest thing I've seen. Ever.

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 5/15/10 at 1:13am

I think it is England, WW. The girl's YouTube account says she's in United Kingdom. I guess it makes the gayish, eurasianish Gary Coleman less flabbergasting.

[wonderwaiter]

Posted: 5/15/10 at 1:15am

That explains "when I was little, I thwot I would be..."

[TheatreFan4]

Posted: 5/15/10 at 1:17am

...and Caucasian singing that she is Japanese...oh dear!

One of the understudies on tour is white, but she can at least pull off looking asian.
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[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 5/15/10 at 1:17am

Honestly - although the blonde Christmas Eve is just uniformly horrifying and the Brits are ... well, they have their own way with racism, I guess - I don't categorically hate the idea of the show without puppets. I think all the goofy make-up is a bad idea.

Speaking of bad ideas, how much has everyone watched? Do we get to see how they DO the Bad Idea Bears.

[rmusic11322]

Posted: 5/15/10 at 1:23am

"but she can at least pull off looking asian."
Not really...

Phyllis, I was able to look through more of the videos to see how Loud As The Hell... was staged. And from what I saw, it seems like there were no bears at all. Everyone just yells out, "Take her home! She's wasted."

[sing_dance_love]

Posted: 5/15/10 at 1:24am

Wait...isn't the point that the show is a spoof of Sesame Street and other children's shows? Which feature Puppets.

So, I don't really get how you could really do it without puppets and have it still be the same show. Weird.

[chewy5000]

Posted: 5/15/10 at 1:53am

How did they do the sex scene?

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 5/15/10 at 2:40am

Equity take note: Puppets put people out of work! I'd like to see somebody take on Puppetry of the Penis in this manner. It could be the latest John Doyle gimmick.

[Bettyboy72]

Posted: 5/15/10 at 9:54am

Was this production even sanctioned? I mean can you imagine selling this re-imagining, "yeah, we want to do Avenue Q without puppets?" Er.....FAIL!

[canmark]

Posted: 5/15/10 at 10:13am

I don't necessarily hate that the puppet roles are played by people. But if they are people they should look like people--not like someone auditioning for Blue Man Group.

And yes, the blond Christmas Eve doesn't make sense, nor the gay, tanned white Gary Coleman.

[defygravity24]

Posted: 5/15/10 at 11:31am

oh goodness...that was disturbing

[Mattbrain]

Posted: 5/15/10 at 11:45am

While it does look rucking fidiculous...these kids are good!

[Calvin]

Posted: 5/15/10 at 12:11pm

The guy playing Rod -- did William Hickey have a great-grandson?

And with their Gary Coleman, why didn't they just change it to Chachi? The jokes would pretty much still work.
Updated On: 5/15/10 at 12:11 PM