Avenue Q

I'll wear it.

You look like a guy who just wandered in off of Avenue Q. i did have to go outside of my car earlier this morning i worried i mean i wasn't worried because i was like i'm on avenue q who cares right well and you're a little

imposing at first like in the dark like when i first got here this morning you walked up to the door when i was coming in and turning the lights on in the lobby yet so i'm just kind of coming in you know still kind of you know just in a daze from you know hadn't started my day really and had done my first cup of coffee I walk in, and all of a sudden, here's this tall Viking, and I was like, what is happening? It was a little unnerving.

I'm already 6'1".

Yeah, the

hat's mine.

There's usually some people walking up and down Avenue Q would probably pay top dollar for those.

Probably so, yeah.

I mean, it'd be fair to say that a lot of people say, oh, Book of Mormon, this is religious, and maybe not into religion, but that's not what it's about, is it? I mean, it's a wonderful story involving wonderful characters.

Yeah, I would say the religious element, I mean, it definitely is a massive theme of it, but if anyone's like, oh, it's Mormonism, I'm not interested, I would... urge them to look up who the South Park writers are, because it's written by Matt and Trey from South Park, and then Bobby Lopez, who wrote Avenue Q, which is another hilarious musical, and he also wrote the music from Frozen.

So while there are these themes, there's just the chaos that kind of goes around them, and watching these two characters in particular navigate these things, and they're complete opposite temperaments and personalities.

So it's a lot more than just a religious musical, in fact, I'd say.

I mean, it'd be fair to say that a lot of people say, oh, Book of Mormon, this is religious, and I'm maybe not into religion, but that's not what it's about, is it? I mean, it's a wonderful story involving wonderful characters.

Yeah, I would say the religious element, I mean, it definitely is a massive theme of it, but if anyone's like, oh, it's Mormonism, I'm not interested, I would... urge them to look up who the South Park writers are, because it's written by Matt and Trey from South Park, and then Bobby Lopez, who wrote Avenue Q, which is another hilarious musical, and he also wrote the music from Frozen.

So while there are these themes, there's just the chaos that kind of goes around them, and watching these two characters in particular navigate these things, and they're complete opposite temperaments and personalities.

So it's a lot more than just a religious musical, in fact, I'd say.

What we did was like a best of of all the musicals.

And I also did a song from Avenue Q.

Which one? Let's hear that.

I had to do I'm Not Wearing Underpants Today because all the other ones were too rude.

25 years with the review.

Directing Avenue Q, that was a lot of fun.

That's coming back, Avenue Q. Yeah, I know.

Be back next year.

Yeah, I'm not sure about that.

And remember to come back next time when I will be joined by four-time Tony-winning producer Kevin McCollum, whose productions of Just in Time, Oh Mary, and Two Strangers are now playing on Broadway.

He has also produced Rent, Avenue Q, In the Heights, The Drowsy Chaperone, West Side Story, Ragtime, Something Rotten, The Play That Goes Wrong, Black Swan, Days of Wine and Roses, and more.

You won't want to miss that episode, so make sure to tune back in for that, and thanks for listening.

F-O-R-U-M. Nailed it.

Sorry, I could not think of anything that was like a shorter name that wasn't just like Yo Cats or Avenue Q. I would have gone

with something like Les Mis or something.

Les Mis actually would have been better, but somehow it didn't pop into my head.