Avenue Q School Edition

It's in the works. Received this email from MTI today-

Dear Friend of MTI:

We’re delighted to announce that MTI has acquired the rights to represent the exciting and edgy hit musical AVENUE Q! While it is not available for general release at this time, we wanted you to know that in conjunction with the authors, the plan is to release two versions of the show: AVENUE Q School Edition (suitable for High Schools to perform, with any material that might be deemed “questionable” for a general audience altered or removed) and the full version of AVENUE Q, with variations for sections/songs/lyrics that will allow a production to retain as much of the original as possible, but be flexible to allow theatres to amend it within author-approved guidelines for various community standards.

We have set up two special FAST TRACK notification pages for these versions of AVENUE Q. We also have included a text field where you can make any comments or give us your thoughts about how you think AVENUE Q will work in your theatre. We look forward to hearing from you!

Your friends at MTI!


ETA: http://www.mtishows.com/email/AvenueQ_announce.htm

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Updated On: 5/7/07 at 09:02 PM

where does it say no puppets?

Having a "school edition" of Avenue Q kind of defeats the entire point of the show

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This is almost laughable. Yeah, I thought Rent the school edition was a bad idea, but this really takes the cake.

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This seems like a really bad idea. What makes Avenue Q such a riot is all the adult humor. If you take that away, what's left?

And what are they gonna do about the puppets???

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Updated On: 5/7/07 at 09:26 PM

Well, I assume they won't be taking out EVERYTHING. Just the more extreme stuff.

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"Well, I assume they won't be taking out EVERYTHING. Just the more extreme stuff."

Uhhh....remember these are for high schools, in our ultra p.c. society.

Entire characters (a.k.a. Lucy the Slut) are going to have to be cut, and a number of songs (Internet is for Porn, You Can Be As Loud..., Special) plus verses of several other songs. I question whether Everyone's a Little Bit Racist and If You Were Gay will even fly in most high school programs.

The reason the show works is because it's a dirty Sesame Street. Without the dirty, it just becomes Sesame Street.

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Yeah, but what do you do after you're finished playing poker?...

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The internet is for school
the internet is for school
lots of kids get up real early
for school school school

This is a bad idea.

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"I wish I could go back to first grade. Life was so simple back then."

...God help us..

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Just because they're making a school edition doesn't mean they're making all the characters high schoolers, NathanLaneStalker.

This could be interesting...?

But they get trained and take classes before they put them on Broadway.

And they audition with puppets from the show and the casting directors decide if it works or not.

Do you think they will do that for a high school? Nope, didn't think so.

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