I was reading about
Avenue Q; the production that I saw in Vegas no longer exists. They chopped it the hell up. As I learned from Tony Vincent's website when he was doing
We Will Rock You (the Queen musical), there's apparently a rule that shows have to have a 90-minute length. Well, that fucked with
Q pretty badly.
They cut the songs "I Wish I Could Go Back to College" (one of my very favorites) and "There Is Life Outside Your Apartment" partially because there is no intermission. "Because" as if "There is Life" is required to only pen the second act; what the fuck is that... The scene where Lucy tells off Mrs. Thistletwat is out, too! And "There's a Fine Line" is still there, but has been shoved to the hospital scene after Princeton makes concerned remarks about Lucy. They also cut stuff out of (but not deleted entirely) "Mix Tape," "Fantasies Come True," "The Money Song," and "Schadenfreude."
The show is apparently also closing in May of this year, allegedly to "make room" for
Spamalot, which I'm sure they'll also "have to" fuck up. I don't know the latter show to be very, very concerned with that... But geez. The "streamlined" version makes me extraordinarily grateful for two things:
- Matthew, who had the beautiful foresight to take me to see it in it's first few months.
- Broadway, which may make casting mistakes and staging mistakes, but don't have inane "curfews" for a city that touts never sleeping.
A bright spot is with the Vegas extension closing (besides that the bastard atrocity to musical theatre that it became at the beginning of this year), is that it now will be able to tour.
nervous
shocked