Marx & Lopez Post-Avenue Q

I'm pretty sure I had heard somewhere that there was a falling out. It looks like he was collaborating on The Book of Mormon and then left the project.

Yes, they had a fairly nasty falling out from what I've heard. That plus Jeff Whitty's recent antics (in which he very publicly aired his dirty laundry about HEAD OVER HEELS, a show that he was removed from but retained credit) must have been an interesting vibe for the AVENUE Q creators...

This piece publicly details some of the Marx BOOK OF MORMON involvement:

“I worked with them on it and then we split up and made a deal,” Marx, who lives in Los Angeles, said in an email. “I don’t want to say more than that except that I’m extremely happy the show has been so successful!”

Lopez declined to comment, but said in a 2013 Dramatists Guild of America discussion that he and Marx had become “horribly critical” of each other’s work while collaborating on Avenue Q. “We’d tear each other to death,” Lopez said. “And we’d end up with good stuff for a while and it was really working. But by the end of Avenue Q we had evolved a process that was extremely fraught.”

Updated On: 1/26/23 at 02:33 PM