Avenue Q/Trivia

• Acting for Two: Rod and Princeton are played, or at least always voiced, by the same actor. Same goes for Trekkie Monster and Nicky, and Kate and Lucy the Slut, and every show has one very busy supporting puppeteer.
• Cut Song: "Tear It Up and Throw It Away", which was cut late in the off-Broadway rehearsals. Kate gets a jury duty summons, but Nicky tells her to... tear it up and throw it away.
• Defictionalization: They sell Bad Idea Bear finger puppets and Trekkie Monster hand puppets in the Avenue Q store.
  • When the State of New York legalised same sex marriage, Rod and Ricky were married in real life, which kind of counts.
• Talking to Himself: Several of the puppet characters, most notably Lucy and Kate.
• What Could Have Been: Gary Coleman was allegedly offered the part of, well, Gary Coleman, but never showed up for the meeting that would have sealed this.
  • As well, the original idea for this was to be more directly inspired by Sesame Street - a televised series of songs and skits teaching "lessons" about everyday life for twentysomethings, to be shown on Adult Swim or somesuch. The musical we have is great, but a TV series woulda been something else again.
• Shout-Out: The opening lines of Avenue Q -- "The sun is shining, it's a lovely day / a perfect morning for a kid to play" -- sung by the appropriately-named Princeton, appear to echo the first lines of the perennial opener for the Princeton Triangle Club's Freshman Week show, "What A Morning":

What a morning, what a beautiful day
The sun is gleaming through the trees.