Avenue Q 2003 - Articles Page 19

AVENUE Q -- winner of three 2004 Tony Awards, including Best Musical - will play its 1,500th performance on Broadway at the Golden Theatre (252 West 45th Street) on Sunday evening, March 4th.

For the first time Tony and Academy Award Winner and Broadway legend Joel Grey will be headlining at The Night of 1000 Voices. He will be joined by the current Phantom in Las Vegas, Anthony Crivello, Tony Award Winner for his performance in Kiss of The Spiderwoman, Ruthie Henshall and members of the Cast of Avenue Q and special guests. This exciting and exclusive performance will introduced by I'm A Celebrity Get Me Out of Here Queen, Myleene Klass and will be for the benefit of The National Artistic Society.

A cast recording of the new DisneyWorld musical Finding Nemo, based on the smash Disney/Pixar Animation Studios movie and featuring songs by Robert Lopez (Avenue Q) and Kristen Anderson-Lopez, is now available on iTunes.

Recent news for Avenue Q includes an Olivier Award nomination, a new 'Scrubs' episode and a new house record

According to a casting notice, Avenue Q will soon be embarking on a national tour

'Avenue Q' breaks house record at the John Golden Theatre for the fourth consecutive year.

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.

Avenue Q: The Book, the companion book to the Tony Award-winning hit Broadway musical about young people with big dreams and tiny bank accounts trying to make it in New York, was released by Hyperion on November 1st

Avenue Q will break a 62-year-old record tonight when it becomes the longest-running show in the history of the Golden Theatre. Friday evening will mark its 1,296th performance on Broadway.

A new Avenue Q contest is offering fans the chance to create a commerical for the hit Broadway musical

Howie Michael Smith has been announced as the next performer to play purpose-seeking Princeton and fellow puppet Rod in the Broadway production of Avenue Q; he will replace Barrett Foa, who leaves the day before, on July 3rd.

The role of Christmas Eve in the London production of AVENUE Q will be taken by Ann Harada.

A musical stage show version of Finding Nemo--with songs by Avenue Q's Robert Lopez as well as Kristen Anderson-Lopez--is heading for a DisneyWorld production in late 2006

Today, March 13th, tickets for the West End production of Avenue Q at the Noel Coward Theatre go on sale

[title of show] -- the new hit musical by Jeff Bowen and Hunter Bell -- extends its Off-Broadway premiere through April 9 at the Vineyard Theatre (108 East 15th Street), it has been announced by Vineyard Theatre's Artistic Director Douglas Aibel.

Wicked, Avenue Q, Caroline or Change, Evita and Spamalot join a long list of musical productions opening in 2006..

Avenue Q and Wicked will receive Actors' Fund Special Performances on March 27th at PM and April 30th at 8 PM, respectively, with funds to benefit the Actors' Fund of America

The hit Broadway musical AVENUE Q will open at the newly re-named Noël Coward Theatre (formerly the Albery Theatre) on Wednesday 28th June 2006, following previews from Thursday 1st June.

The Las Vegas production of Avenue Q has cut some songs in order to arrive at a 90-minute running time

When Avenue Q opens in London later this year, the setting will be the same but Gary Coleman will be gone

Avenue Q fans have 10 days left in which to cast ballots for the Win a One Night Stand on Avenue Q Sweepstakes

Mary Faber will follow Stephanie D'Abruzzo as Kate Monster and Lucy T. Slut in Avenue Q on December 26th

Marks milestone on Broadway with 1,000th performance on December 22, 2005

The cast of Avenue Q will be featured on the December 18th edition of A&E's 'Breakfast with the Arts'

Casting has been announced for The Further Adventures of Hedda Gabler, Tony Award-winner Jeff Whitty's (Avenue Q) take on the Ibsen classic that will be produced at the South Coast Rep in January