Gary Coleman in Avenue Q- Page 2

[bwayfan9]

Posted: 9/14/08 at 6:40pm

lol well said weez

[Patash]

Posted: 9/14/08 at 7:27pm

I was not so hung up on the idea that Gary Coleman was being played by a woman as I was that there was not a single shred of attempt to imitate Gary Coleman. So what was the point, if it wasn't an attempt to indicate him as the character?

[blaxx]

Posted: 9/14/08 at 8:49pm

Maybe the performer(s) you saw just weren't very good. I saw the understudy in London and I thought it was the worst performance in a professional production I've ever seen.

[regnad kcin]

Posted: 9/14/08 at 9:00pm

I don't know why the character was switched to a man, but I do have a theory as to why it's a woman:

To have a black man playing a black man would be too eerily realistic. But a black woman playing a black man - it's just similar enough to be funny while farfetched enough to not be kind of scary. It's like how the puppets can do obsecene things becasue they are puppets. Does that make any sense?