avenue q (2021)

We’re back!  Thanks COVID, our wonderful puppets are making a trip back onto the Avenue and this time we’re grown up enough for the big stage.

Winner of the Tony Triple Crown for Best Musical, Best Score and Best Book, the hilarious Avenue Q tells the timeless story of a recent college graduate trying to find his way in the world.

Settling in New York City all the way out on Avenue Q (he couldn’t afford anything better), we are introduced to fresh-faced Princeton as he struggles to find his purpose: meeting friends, finding love, losing love, and finding it again, along the way.

Inspired by the beloved shows of our childhood, Avenue Q creates a puppet-filled world that is a little more reflective of the difficult, adult-realities that we face when we learn that real life isn’t as simple as we dreamed it might be – but perhaps, life is all the more colourful and worthwhile for it.


Performance Dates

18-20th February 2021
Empire Theatre

PRINCETON Justin Tamblyn
KATE MONSTER Shannon Gralow
GARY COLEMAN Angela Ponting
ROD James Taylor

NICKY Ryan Paroz
TREKKIE/RICKY Kyle Dever
BRIAN Dan Stewart
CHRISTMAS EVE Jo Tooley

BAD IDEA BEAR & MRS THISTLETWAT Catherine Humphrys
LUCY T SLUT Anna Roche-Kelly
BAD IDEA BEAR & NEWCOMER Mitch Humphrys

CONDUCTOR/KEYBOARD 1 Morgan Chalmers
KEYBOARD 2 Andrew Egan

KEYBOARD 3/WOODWIND Nerida Eckert
BASS Nick Williams

GUITAR Mark Chalmers
DRUMS Jonathan Willis

PRODUCERS Shoebox Theatre Company
DIRECTOR Lewis Jones
MUSICAL DIRECTOR Morgan Chalmers
PUPPETS Maxx Puppets

CHOREOGRAPHER Daniel Erbacher
VOCAL COACH Jess Berwick
DESIGNER Mary Quade
CREW Marty Zarb

STAGE MANAGER Michaela Fancis
BACKSTAGE CREW Helen Richards, Mary Quade, Courtney Ruler, Simon Duncan

Avenue Q 2021