{"id":1281,"date":"2009-07-12T11:32:12","date_gmt":"2009-07-12T11:32:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/12\/its-more-than-a-little-crazy-to-come-all-te-way-to-london-and-see-and-american-musical-and-find-it-so-familiar-so-real-and\/"},"modified":"2014-03-16T03:04:32","modified_gmt":"2014-03-16T03:04:32","slug":"its-more-than-a-little-crazy-to-come-all-te-way-to-london-and-see-and-american-musical-and-find-it-so-familiar-so-real-and","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/12\/its-more-than-a-little-crazy-to-come-all-te-way-to-london-and-see-and-american-musical-and-find-it-so-familiar-so-real-and\/","title":{"rendered":"Avenue Q, in London! How Did We Miss It Before?"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s more than a little crazy to come all the way to London, see an American musical – and find it so familiar, so real and well-observed, witty, loving and even joyous, that you wonder how it is possible that you hadn’t’ seen it before. \u00a0The play is\u00a0Avenue Q<\/a>, and for most people it will be a “yeah, and???” because it won\u00a0so many Tonys<\/a>, including Best Musical, Best Book, Best Direction of a musical, Best Performance by a leading actor in a musical, and Best Performace by a leading actress in a musical,\u00a0and\u00a0because everyone has written about it for years. \u00a0Hah! And Cindy thinks she made some great discovery!<\/p>\n

\nIn fact, I\u00a0do\u00a0think I’ve made a great discovery – that it’s still possible that an entire theater full of people from dozens of countries (just seated directly around us were India, New Zealand, Australia and France) can respond to something without helicopters or wild moving sets or TV\/film stars in the cast \u00a0— something so completely human (well, if you count the puppets who are in fact among the “most” human) that it inspired and moved us all. \u00a0That all this can be accomplished with warmth and — I know this sounds corny — a real affection for what makes us human, for the power of laughter and of songs. \u00a0Both of us feel that we had a perfect evening, one that inspires gratitude, even. \u00a0Here’s a little of it for you, in case you missed it too.(From the Tony’s)
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It’s more than a little crazy to come all the way to London, see an American musical – and find it so familiar, so real and well-observed, witty, loving and even joyous, that you wonder how it is possible that you hadn’t’ seen it before. \u00a0The play is\u00a0Avenue Q, and for most people it will … Continue reading Avenue Q, in London! How Did We Miss It Before?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,7,8,97,78],"tags":[295,535,10,534,536],"class_list":["post-1281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-life","category-music","category-television","category-travel","tag-arts","tag-avenue-q","tag-music-2","tag-theater","tag-tony-awards"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4gBq8-kF","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1281"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1281\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1957,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1281\/revisions\/1957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}