Robert Lopez News

Director Paul G. Caron has announced the cast for the upcoming CLT production of the hit musical comedy Avenue Q. This puppet-filled comedy, with music and lyrics by Robert Lopez and Jeff Marx and book by Jeff Whitty, Avenue Q is an 'autobiographical and biographical' coming-of-age parable, addressing the issues and anxieties associated with entering adulthood. Winner of the Tony 'Triple Crown' for Best Musical, Best Score and Best Book, Avenue Q is 'part flesh, part felt, and packed with heart.'

Walt Disney Animation Studios has released the new teaser trailer from Disney's 'Frozen 2.'

Broadway in Portland is pleased to announce its 2019/20 Season with a schedule full of classics, brand-new productions, and hit musicals direct from Broadway.

Back by popular demand, THE BOOK OF MORMON, returns to Dayton for a limited engagement May 21-26 at the Benjamin& Marian Schuster Performing Arts Center. Single tickets will go on sale Monday, Feb. 18 at 10 a.m. Tickets will be available at the Ticket Center Stage box office located in the Wintergarden of the Schuster Center, by visiting www.ticketcenterstage.com or by calling 937-228-3630, or (toll-free) 888-228-3630.

Back by popular demand, THE BOOK OF MORMON, which played a sold-out run in 2015 returns to Shea's Buffalo Theatre from April 30 to May 5 as a special engagement.  Single tickets will go on sale at 10 a.m. Thursday, Feb. 14. Tickets will be available at the Shea's Buffalo Theatre box office (650 Main Street), by visiting Ticketmaster.com, or by calling 1-800-745-3000. Group orders of 10 or more may be placed by calling Mary Oshei at 716.829.1153.

Music's Biggest Night - the GRAMMYs - is here! Live from STAPLES Center, and hosted by Alicia Keys, the 61st Annual GRAMMY Awards will be broadcast on CBS at 8:00 p.m. ET/5:00 p.m. PT. 

Enjoy 2 premium house seats to The Book of Mormon & a backstage tour with a member of the creative team following the performance in New York City!

From the producers of The Lion King and Aladdin, Disney's Frozen, the Tony-nominated Best Musical, will play a premiere engagement at the Civic Center Music Hall in the spring of 2021, with performance dates to be announced at a later time.

Expect musical mischief and bad behaviour aplenty when the stars of the Tony Award-winning Avenue Q arrive at Storyhouse in Chester later this month.

Avenue Q is an interesting show to describe to those who have never seen it. Naive graduate Princeton comes to New York with big dreams and little money to match. When he moves to Avenue Q he meets his neighbours where he tries to find his purpose in life. Together they tackle various issues and learn to be happy with their lot in life. So far, so straightforward, but Avenue Q is a little different. It is a musical puppet show for adults, featuring rude songs and outrageous jokes that touch on issues from internet pornography, being gay and puppet sex. It's difficult to see how it could work, but it does and this new tour that comes to the New Wimbledon Theatre in hilarious and irreverent form.

We caught up with the cast and puppet guru of the UK tour of Avenue Q to find out all about the production. Watch our video below!

Avenue Q, winner of the 2004 Tony awards for Best Book, Best Musical, and Best Score, makes its Playhouse at Westport Plaza debut, and, although I've seen other fine productions of this musical, Westport is the perfect venue-intimate and cozy-for this beloved brazen show.

The Book of Mormon swept through Dallas this week and could not have been better received by it's audiences. When auxiliary parking and bathroom breaks take enduring longer lines than those in certain sacred texts, you know the buzz about a show has hit it's peak. Wondrous comedic duo, Trey Parker and Matt Stone of South Park and Team America fame, first blessed our great nation with The Book of Mormon in 2011. The work was a daring collaboration with Robert Lopez, who we can thank for the genius music and lyrics on Avenue Q and a little song called "Let it Go" from Frozen. The story is at its core a simple tale of finding your voice and accepting one another. But true to the creator's particular brand of humor, the narrative is told through a gleefully tongue-in-cheek style production rife with vulgar humor and lewd imagery.

AVENUE Q will welcome the return of Veronica J. Kuehn beginning February 18, as Kate Monster/Lucy. Ms. Kuehn resumes the role having last performed in the production from July 20, 2011 through February 9, 2015. Shereplaces current cast member Gizel Jimenez, who will play her final performance on February 17, 2019.

TheaterWorksUSA announces their newest partnership with Writers House and Scholastic, the global children's publishing, education, and media company, by securing the rights to adapt the worldwide bestseller DOG MAN by Dav Pilkey for the stage.

THE BOOK OF MORMON, winner of nine Tony Awards including Best Musical, is pleased to announce a lottery ticket policy for the National Tour, which begins Tuesday, Feb. 5 at the Saenger Theatre in New Orleans and plays through Sunday, Feb. 10. In New Orleans, the production will conduct a pre-show lottery at the box office, making a limited number of tickets available at $25 apiece. The $25 lottery tickets are available for cash only purchases.

Avenue Q got a surprise visit from boyband superstars The Backstreet Boys at yesterday's performance. BroadwayWorld was there as the band hung out backstage with the cast. Check out the photos below!

iTheatrics Junior Theater Festival Atlanta (#JTF) was held January 18-20, 2019 at The Cobb Galleria Centre in Atlanta.

Sometimes as a parent it's important to just 'let it go' and show your children how to be themselves. That's exactly what one dad did when his son wanted to dance to Frozen songs in an Elsa dress.

Guess Q's back! The naughtiest puppets in town will be coming to Chester as comedy musical Avenue Q returns next year to tour the UK with all of your favourite fuzzy friends, opening at Portsmouth Kings Theatre 25 January 2019. The show will stop at Storyhouse from 25 February for one week only!