GREAT Avenue Q line
GREAT Avenue Q line
Harpz2006
Broadway Star Joined: 1/3/08
#1GREAT Avenue Q line
Posted: 7/26/12 at 11:50pm
Saw a fantastic community theatre production of Avenue Q tonight at Annapolis Summer Garden Theatre... just wanted to share that they said "Chick-Fil-A! Is only for now." Got a HUGE response:)!
Updated On: 7/26/12 at 11:50 PM
#2GREAT Avenue Q line
Posted: 7/27/12 at 1:25amHow did it scan? And that's a text change. Call MTI and the Dramatists Guild!
#2GREAT Avenue Q line
Posted: 7/27/12 at 1:48amThe good ones are two syllables, and fit with the music.
Wynbish
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/27/12
Harpz2006
Broadway Star Joined: 1/3/08
#4GREAT Avenue Q line
Posted: 7/27/12 at 1:53amIt fit fine with the music- kinda just like "Chick Flay"... it was a fabulous production.
get-it-right
Swing Joined: 5/29/12
#5GREAT Avenue Q line
Posted: 7/27/12 at 2:11amI saw a regional production last week that used "Fox News" and it got a tonnn of laughs.
AwesomeDanny
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/30/09
#6GREAT Avenue Q line
Posted: 7/27/12 at 2:36amI think that lyric might be left open in the MTI script. It was originally "George Bush is only for now," but I remember that there was a contest when he left office in 2009 to re-name the lyric (they chose four different lyrics that they alternated until, I believe, they went back to "George Bush was only for now"). When I saw the tour a few years ago, they sang "Glen Beck is only for now," so my best guess is that the licensed script would leave the last "...for now" blank for any modern day issue.
#7GREAT Avenue Q line
Posted: 7/27/12 at 6:08amThe UK tour has been using "Justin Bieber" which always gets a good laugh, and I have deffinatley heard "Our Show" but can't remember which production I heard that in!
hhaarriissoonn
Swing Joined: 6/27/11
#8GREAT Avenue Q line
Posted: 7/27/12 at 9:33amWell then, did not expect to find this while browsing around this morning. Thanks for coming and glad you enjoyed the show :)
Wynbish
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/27/12
#10GREAT Avenue Q line
Posted: 7/27/12 at 10:06am
Before you call MTI and the Dramatists Guild, please keep in mind that this particular line is one of two instances in which the authors give their explicit consent to update it and make it the production's own.
#11GREAT Avenue Q line
Posted: 7/27/12 at 10:13am
"Romney" has the right syllables, but "Chick-fil-A" still scans better.
Rom-KNEE
Is only for now
That sounds awful and slightly confusing.
Harpz2006
Broadway Star Joined: 1/3/08
#12GREAT Avenue Q line
Posted: 7/27/12 at 12:07pm@harrrrison you were amazing!! I'm friends with the Christmas Eve understudy... she did so well too!!
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#13GREAT Avenue Q line
Posted: 7/27/12 at 1:24pm
When i first saw the Uk tour in 2011 they used "Jedward" then in 2012 they used "Justin Bieber"
Tomorrow is their last show of the tour, hope they use the "our show" line it would bring the house down!
I think its really cool they change the lyric, it keeps the show fresh, the dialogue in the tour also included some references to the city that they where in, such as what was found in the hat after The Money Song ( a reference to the rival football clubs ticket being worthless)
Tours: Avenue Qx2, Grease, Sister Act,WWRY,Hairsprayx2, Never Forget, Blood Brothers x2, Singin' in the Rain, Legally Blonde,American Idiot x2, Phantom of the Opera, Beautiful Burnout, Our Countrys Good, The Ladykillers, Joseph,9-5, Rocky Horror, CATS
Regional: She Loves Me, Sweeney Todd, Kiss Me Kate, The Pajama Game, Barnum (Chichester) Metamorphosis (Lyric Hammersmith)Tristan and Yseult (Bristol Old Vic)
Tickets: Nevilles Island, Much Ado About Nothing
Wynbish
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/27/12
yankeefan7
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/14/12
#15GREAT Avenue Q line
Posted: 7/28/12 at 4:05pmThat is funny and topical. I saw it on Broadway and they used "George Bush". The only problem I have is they only poke fun at certain political types and would never dare insert "Obama" into that line because it is not PC - IMO.
Unknown User
Joined: 12/31/69
#16GREAT Avenue Q line
Posted: 7/28/12 at 5:10pmI'm in a Production in NJ opening Thursday! Our director is in the Avenue Q Company off-broadway and he also toured with the 2nd nation tour of Avenue Q. And we use Fox News is only for now.
yankeefan7
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/14/12
#18GREAT Avenue Q line
Posted: 7/29/12 at 10:55ambess888- while people may laugh the actual line does not make sense since FOX News wins in the ratings war compared to the other networks. Actually, a network like CNN is probably more like to be "for now" - lol
Bluelark
Swing Joined: 10/6/11
#20GREAT Avenue Q line
Posted: 7/29/12 at 2:59pm
I remember hearing that a couple years ago the West End production used "your bank".
I saw the West End show three days before Obama's inauguration. When they sang "George Bush is only for now" the applause almost stopped the song.
yankeefan7
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/14/12
#21GREAT Avenue Q line
Posted: 7/29/12 at 4:55pmJV92- LOL, doesn't make me a bad person. I laughed as hard as anybody when they said "George Bush" is for now when I saw it on Broadway.
#22GREAT Avenue Q line
Posted: 7/29/12 at 5:26pm
I'm not a Republican (they disgust me), but I was disappointed when the NY production didn't just replace "Bush" with "Obama." That option made by far the most sense to me.
(EDIT: I realize "Obama" wouldn't scan, but "Barack" wouldn't be bad. "B.O." would be interesting, too. :))
Updated On: 7/29/12 at 05:26 PM
#23GREAT Avenue Q line
Posted: 7/29/12 at 6:33pm
Sorry yankeefan7, but the truth will outlast made up bullsh*t. Hence, CNN will be around longer than Fox News. Enough of this political stuff though. What else scans well?
#24GREAT Avenue Q line
Posted: 7/31/12 at 8:50am
We used a few different lines during our run:
- Healthcare (huge response, especially after the Supreme Court ruling)
- Tom Cruise (right after the divorce)
- Glenn Beck
- This heat (during the heatwave)
- Our show (closing night)
However, Chick-fil-A got by far the biggest laugh and some people even stood up for that line in particular.
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