Avenue Q

I love musicals. I will never, ever make any claim to the otherwise. I listen to the Broadway channel on satellite radio, AccuBroadway online, and several of my cast albums. One of my many favorites is Avenue Q. It's raunchy, hilarious, and perhaps most important of all, relevant. It uses comedy to teach its lessons. It does this very well.

I had the great pleasure of seeing the show tonight at the Tennessee Theatre. At first, I had feared that the show wouldn't do very well here, considering this is Knoxville and is infested with many uptight, Republican types. The response was greatly refreshing. There were many young people such as myself and older people alike that all enjoyed the show. I hadn't expected many to show up, but the house was pretty much full. I am very happy with this.

The show itself was awesome. I can't really think of a performer that I liked more than the others, but I will say I really enjoyed Kate Monster, Bryan, and the Bad Idea Bears. During the For Now song, instead of Bush, they said "GLENN BECK is only for now!" which got a lot of applause. The songs were all wonderfully done, and now I know the situations for all of the songs I had been listening to for a few years.

After the show, being astounded by the greatness of the show, Jordan and I (Jordan being my younger brother) went to the parking lot. After we made it to the car, we decided it would take forever to wait for the traffic to leave, so we turned around to go to Market Square and look for something to eat. On our way over there, we met a few of the male cast of the show, and we chatted for a little while. They signed our playbills too, and said that our audience was one of the best they've had for the whole tour. This made us very happy, especially because of our fears that the show wouldn't be accepted too well in Knoxville.

All in all, tonight was great. Truly, this whole week has been. E3 is going on and Nintendo won me over for their first E3 in forever. We saw Avenue Q and got to meet some of the cast. We're seeing Toy Story 3 this week. Hopefully, we'll make more money on the books tomorrow. For now though, I'm going to go listen to some Avenue Q and work on beating Mega Man Zero 2.