AVENUE Q Breaks House Record for 4th Year in a Row

For the fourth consecutive year, AVENUE Q has set a box office record at the John Golden Theatre (252 West 45th St.) on Broadway. The Tony Award-winning Best Musical broke its own box office record -- yet again -- with an all-time high of $665,181 for the week ending December 31, 2006.

The $665,181 figure surpasses by more than $100,000 the previous year's record of $553,735, set on January 1, 2006.

As well, AVENUE Q broke box office records on January 2, 2004 ($553,007) and for the weekend ending January 4, 2003 ($493,128).

AVENUE Q has been in the record-breaking business since it opened to enormous popular and critical acclaim on Broadway in July 2003, going on to win three 2004 Tony Awards, including Best Musical, Best Score of a Musical and Best Book of a Musical. The musical first broke the half-million-dollar mark at the Golden in August, 2004.

The smash-hit musical about trying to make it in New York City with big dreams and a tiny bank account, AVENUE Q is now in its fourth year at the Golden Theatre where it continues to remain one of Broadway's biggest and most enduring successes, playing to enthusiastic sold-out houses 8 times a week.

In September, 2006, with its 1,296th performance, the Tony Award-winning musical broke a 62-year-old record to become the longest running show at the Golden Theatre -- a record previously held by the thriller ANGEL STREET which opened in 1941 and closed in 1944.

In June, AVENUE Q opened its first international production in London's West End at the Noel Coward Theatre.

With music and lyrics by Robert Lopez and Jeff Marx, book by Jeff Whitty, based on an original concept by Robert Lopez and Jeff Marx, with puppets conceived and designed by Rick Lyon, and directed by Jason Moore, AVENUE Q is produced on Broadway by Kevin McCollum, Robyn Goodman, Jeffrey Seller, Vineyard Theatre and The New Group.

The current Broadway cast of AVENUE Q features Jennifer Barnhart, Mary Faber, Evan Harrington, Robert McClure, Ann Sanders, Howie Michael Smith and Haneefah Wood.

For detailed performance schedule and ticket information about AVENUE Q, please visit www.avenueq.com

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