Avenue Q (2003 Original Broadway Cast)
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Edition: Music CDFormat: Cast Recording, Explicit Lyrics
CD Release Date: 2003-10-07
Music Label: RCA Victor Broadway
Soundtracks:
- The Avenue Q Theme - Company
- What Do You Do with a B.A. in English? - John Tartaglia
- It Sucks To Be Me - Jordan Gelber, Stephanie D'Abruzzo, John Tartaglia, Rick Lyon, Ann Harada, Natalie Venetia Belcon, Jennifer Barnhart
- If You Were Gay - Rick Lyon with John Tartaglia
- Purpose - John Tartaglia & Company
- Everyone's A Little Bit Racist - John Tartaglia, Stephanie D'Abruzzo, Natalie Venetia Belcon, Jordan Gelber, Ann Harada
- The Internet Is For Porn - Stephanie D'Abruzzo, Rick Lyon & the Guys
- Mix Tape - Stephanie D'Abruzzo, John Tartaglia
- I'm Not Wearing Underwear Today - Jordan Gelber with Ann Harada
- Special - Stephanie D'Abruzzo with the Guys
- You Can Be as Loud as the Hell You Want (When You're Makin' Love) - Natalie Venetia Belcon, Rick Lyon, Jennifer Barnhart & Ensemble with Stephanie D'Abruzzo, John Tartaglia, Jordan Gelber, Ann Harada
- Come True - John Tartaglia, Stephanie D'Abruzzo with Rick Lyon
- My Girlfriend, Who Lives in Canada - John Tartaglia
- There's a Fine, Fine Line - Stephanie D'Abruzzo
- There Is Life Outside Your Apartment - Jordan Gelber, John Tartaglia & Company
- The More You Ruv Someone - Ann Harada, Stephanie D'Abruzzo
- Schadenfreude - Natalie Venetia Belcon, Rick Lyon
- I Wish I Could Go Back to College - Stephanie D'Abruzzo, Rick Lyon, John Tartaglia
- The Money Song - Rick Lyon, John Tartaglia, Natalie Venetia Belcon with Jordan Gelber, Ann Harada, Jennifer Barnhart
- School for Monsters/The Money Song (Reprise) - Rick Lyon & Company
- There's A Fine, Fine Line (Reprise) - John Tartaglia, Stephanie D'Abruzzo with Ann Harada
- What Do You Do With A B.A. In English? (Reprise) - Rick Lyon with Natalie Venetia Belcon, John Tartaglia, Stephanie D'Abruzzo, Jordan Gelber & Jennifer Barnhart
- For Now - Stephanie D'Abruzzo, Jordan Gelber, Natalie Venetia Belcon, Ann Harada, Rick Lyon, John Tartaglia, Jennifer Barnhart
Music reviews of Avenue Q (2003 Original Broadway Cast)
Music Review: The Funniest Comedic Play Besides Spamalot
Rating: 5 Stars
I loved this musical! I mean, absolutely ADORED it to pieces and nearly fell into those pieces after I saw it I was laughing so hard. This is one of the best plays ever written - yes, better than Shakespeare! - and that is really saying something. With fantastic humor, lovable characters, and a wonderful character-driven plot, this music is something for everybody except children.
On the whole, this CD was truly spectacular, and I was flashing back to sitting in the theater watching the play as I listened, but here are reviews for the individual songs, because those will be more specific and informative.
Track 1: Avenue Q Theme
This was a good opening, and it set the stage for real Sesame Street/The Simpsons/Family Guy/Friends humor that have never been combined yet, though it was slightly irritating.
Track 2: What Do You Do With A B.A. In English?/It Sucks To Be Me
The best opening track to a play possibly ever, tied with No One Mourns the Wicked from Wicked. Hilariously funny, it starts the plot going and introduces the character in a remarkable display of wit and wonderful vocal talent. You'll be rolling around on the floor clutching your stomach laughing. It introduces all the best characters: the naive Princeton, the lovely and single Kate Monster, the unemployed Brian, his Japanese fiance (and later in the play, wife) Christmas Eve, the pervert Trekkie Monster, the roommates Rod and Nicky, and the superintendent of the apartment Gary Coleman (that's right, THE Gary Coleman!)
Track 3: If You Were Gay
Meet Rod and Nicky, two of the supporting characters of this play who are roomies and best buddies (though they were introduced in the previous song.) Think Bert and Ernie, with the homosexuality that everybody's been considering they have! Here, Nicky is telling a frustrated and denying Rod that it would be alright if Rod was gay. This song is laugh-till-you-cry funny and will get stuck in your head no matter what.
Track 4: Purpose
It was okay. I'd say it was the worst in the album, but worst implies that it was bad. I'll go with least good.
Track 5: Everyone's A Little Bit Racist
Great! Wonderful! And true to life! I would almost say the second-best song on the album! I have got to stop using exclamation points in this section! But it's great! It should have been a single!
Track 6: The Internet Is For Porn
This will offend Internet-users everywhere, and has got to be as good as Keytes' songs. This is what would happen if Cookie Monster became a pervert. I loved this song - and the main message is true for all of my friends.
Track 7: Mix Tape
Kate Monster likes Princeton, & he likes her, so he makes her a mixed tape with alternating romantic and unromantic songs which all lead to Princeton - well, see the show.
Track 8: I'm Not Wearing Underwear Today
This was a funny song, but it was very small. A single by Brian, he sings it at a bar and at the end his fiance shouts at him, "Get a job!"
Track 9: Special
A bar-slut's song purely, this is not that funny but it is entertaining, and it introduces the loose Girls Gone Wild star Lucy the Slut.
Track 10: You Can Be As Loud As The Hell You Want (When You're Makin' Love)
This song is played during a nude sex scene with Princeton and Kate, and though it is pretty gross it is also funny, and shows the wonderful vocal talents of that lady who plays Gary Coleman.
Track 11: Fantasies Come True
It wasn't that funny, but it was really sweet and a little sad at the end.
Track 12: My Girlfriend Who Lives in Canada
A hilarious, short song which sums up Rod's abortive attempts to convince everybody that he is not gay.
Track 13: There's a Fine, Fine Line
A beautiful solo piece with Kate Monster, who has just been dumped and is very sad about it, because it's not the first time.
Track 14: There Is Life Outside Your Apartment
Great, funny song showing a depressed Princeton with a screwed up life being convinced by all of his new friends to lighten up and explore New York City, where they all live. You'll love it to bits.
Track 15: The More You Ruv Someone
This is a muppetlike nearly operatic ballad from Christmas Eve, explaining to Kate that just because you really, really hate somebody and want to kill them it doesn't mean you don't love them. It's great!
Track 16: Schadenfreude
This song and "Everyone's A Little Bit Racist" are tied in second place. Gary is telling a now-homeless Nicky how people are "taking pleasure in his pain" in a witty, spectacularly funny song giving examples of when people do this.
Track 17: I Wish I Could Go Back To College
Anybody in their early twenties and fresh-out-of-college years will know this, and it presents this despairing wistful feeling in a fantastic song.
Track 18: The Money Song
Homeless Nicky begs Princeton for money, and Princeton, upon giving it to him, realizes how good it feels to help others and decides to make Kate's biggest dream come true: a school for monsters exclusively. He teams up with all of the rest of the cast, and they ask everybody in the audience to cough up all of their money for the cause.
Track 19: School for Monsters/The Money Song (Reprise)
This song is where Trekkie is convinced into donating millions of dollars (which he made by the way off of internet porn) to the school. It's good - not amazing - but good.
Track 20: There's A Fine, Fine Line (Reprise)/ What Do You Do With A B.A. In English? (Reprise)
A funny song, but it's basically just a mixture of the songs that it is reprising, as all reprises are, so again it's not amazing, though it has some nice dialogue.
Track 21: For Now
The wonderful finale, and since I've rambled on so long I'll just let you see for yourself how funny it is.
All in all, this CD is fantastic, and you should buy it even if you don't like musicals, plays, or even a little if you don't like comedy (though everybody loves a good laugh once in a while.) You'll find it great, and worth the money. Buy it, listen to it, and be happy.
Description of Avenue Q (2003 Original Broadway Cast)
AVENUE Q is a musical that has been running on Broadway since 2003 and is currently the 25th longest running musical in Broadway history and it has won 3 Tony Awards including BEST MUSICAL. The show is largely inspired by (and in the style of) Sesame Street.for adults. Most of the characters are puppets (operated by actors onstage). The characters use profanity and the songs concern adult themes. AVENUE Q is the story of Princeton, a bright-eyed college grad who comes to New York City with big dreams and a tiny bank account. He soon discovers that the only neighborhood in his price range is Avenue Q; still, the neighbors seem nice. There's Brian the out-of-work comedian and his therapist fiance? Christmas Eve; Nicky the good-hearted slacker and his roommate Rod -- a Republican investment banker who seems to have some sort of secret; an Internet addict called Trekkie Monster; and a very cute kindergarten teaching assistant named Kate. And would you believe the building's superintendent is Gary Coleman?!? (Yes, that Gary Coleman.) Together, Princeton and his newfound friends struggle to find jobs, dates, and their ever-elusive purpose in life.Avenue Q will only fuel the frustration of those who think that Broadway has given up on sophisticated entertainment geared to adults. "Whatever happened to Cole Porter's witty rhymes and mature subject matter?" they'll say. Well, it's hard to deny that Avenue Q's main frame of reference is Sesame Street and that its humor can be very broad--yes, there's profanity and puppet sex. But the show also displays heart ("The More You Ruv Someone" typically begins with "Why can't people get along?") and a pretty satisfying zany streak. Musically, the score is rooted in 1970s pop, with nods to the aforementioned Sesame Street. The excellent cast, dominated by John Tartaglia and Stephanie D'Abruzzo, does it justice, milking the humorous numbers for all they're worth and finding pathos in the more straightforward ones. Not bad for a childish show. --Elisabeth Vincentelli
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