Behind the scenes on "Avenue Q"

[@morganshane6580]

Rob McClure is my lil Shakespeare hating b-a-in-English broccoli BBY I love him

[@FranMSK]

Yeah Robert McClure's great. He does a really good job of making the puppet look real. He doesn't need to do alot to totally have me convinced.

[@snubbyj]

haha i saw this cast live when they came to my city. they were amazing!

[@GoddessPrincess]

i saw this show i LOVED it i acually my dad went with me and he wasn't sure about it at first but after he loved the show and now his favourite character is Trekkie Monster lol. i love all of the characters and music and songs and the people doing the puppetreeing were great,It is a show that i would recomed to people and i hope they love it just as must as all of the fans who have seen it do.

[@JackandSally4ever]

Oh, jeez! I freaking love puppets. I love the puppet vibrato and puppet dance thing. That always makes me laugh. Thanks for putting this up!

[@wickedinUS]

i saw it on my birthday in Chicago... i turned 15. best show ever

[@LPM12]

I saw it on sunday, it was so worth the wait and the cash. Go see it on Broadway before it closes September 13th!

[@HaydenWinnett321]

I saw this cast in Sacramento, CA. It is a fantastic show.

[@HaydenWinnett321]

I saw this cast at Sacramento. It was fantastic!

[@Angie2343]

Avenue Q is, in a sense, a tribute to Jim Henson and the Muppets.

[@ratman1810]

1:24 poor Nicky he got a nose in the eye

[@etraig]

wow! cool interview, rob is great! I'm glad he's doing so well. I haven't seen him in years, we'd done community theater together. We were in a production of "joseph and the A.T. dreamcoat". He's incredibly talented. I hope to see Ave. Q someday.

[@timtwoface]

Just saw this in Vancouver yesterday, it was awesome, as I expected. I wish there were more!

[@mikokat]

I saw it a couple days ago and got to go backstage! They even let me operate Nicky! It was so amazing!

[@Dominoblox]

I saw this in Boston. It was simply amazing. I was laughing the entire time. =]

[@jettchristie35]

damn rob looks so young omg

[@DarkSouske]

it came to my town once and got to see it for my birthday. i love this fucking musical. make it a damn movie already!!!!!!! id watch it 20 times!!!

[@1223cherryblossom]

I somewhat know Rob MCclure, he helped my high school in its spring preformance! He was so awesome and funny. I can't believe he did Avenue Q! I have a new and more respect for him now, that musical is the best!

[@Fisch-sticks]

not for kids?? SHIT I'VE ALREADY LISTENED TO EVERY SONG LIKE FIVE MILLION TIMES!!!!!! Im 15 :P

[@bibibabkagirl]

i saw this on west end!!! it was awesome!!!!!

[@smelky27]

Rob McClure. He is amazing. I actually took a class from him way before he was in Avenue Q. One of my friends from that class and I are always hearing things about Avenue Q and we are like:ROB!!

[@dkgilmorejunkie]

saw it in london in sep.2007 with the original kate and co, and it was priceless. the show has my kind of humor mixed with the things i love about musicals...

[@WildThangSE]

where did you find the whole musical? I'm 13 and this is THE BEST musical i've ever seen! It's hilarious!

[@stormcloudsabound]

@robertlagestee no, they meant the original BROADWAY cast. john tartaglia, rick lyon, jennifer barnhart, you just can't beat them!

[@janekrahe]

@Angie2343 That's because they were originally unsure about whether UK audiences would know who Gary Coleman was, so they changed to character to just a guy named "Gary". But fans protested and the character was returned to Gary Coleman, but they kept the man they'd cast to play him.

[@triggerua]

I got to see this on brdwy with the original cast. I think it is funny how they cast people who look like the originals even though that really isn't important to the storyline. Great show!

[@whimsydragon22]

im only 9 and i a big fan of this show!

[@cocoacoconuts24]

Haha! The Kate puppet is so cute and chubby! XD

[@ihavetheparakeetflu]

ohboyyay =D I saw this on my thirteenth birthday, closing day. June seventh, I mean. Robert McClure is, like, my new hero.

[@NHall609]

@mikokat i got to play with Trekki!

[@KayVox]

Trekkie forever!

[@ImWeirdAndILikeIt]

i wanna see this live soooooo bad!

[@billiejo2009]

when does avenue q come to st.louis mo i wonder? i would love to see it live.

[@muppetlover16]

Yes, maybe in a special musical episode of Sesame Street

[@Biowoman.]

i like this guys face on the song 1/2 way through it lol so funny

[@mikokat]

No, the National Tour. It was in San Jose, CA.

[@WildThangSE]

oh i found it! thnx a ton!

[@BroadwayJunkie131]

Actually Avenue Q is not dead. They announced that it is going to be moving off-broadway to new world stages. It starts preformances October 9 and tickets are already on sale. YAY! (I said yay cause my favorite characters are the Bad Idea Bears!)

[@FranMSK]

I sort of see your point, but I think these days children are learning about this stuff faster. And I actually think Q handles these topics really sweetly and smartly. If my 9 yea-old was curious about this stuff, I can't think of a better enviroment to learn it than Q.

[@Phoenix9109]

O_O THAT'S THE CAST I SAW YESTERDAY! Front row center too. ^_^ Only Kate, Gary and Nicky were all understudies, or maybe the Kate shown here is an understudy, i dunno. They were all awesome, and I practically fell in love with the guy that played Nicky and Trekkie. (I also saw it in Fort Worth, by the way)

[@Biowoman.]

it really is i hav the whole show on a playlist on my chanel its hillaroius

[@BAGibb]

@blackdog39 No..I think this was the first national tour cast

[@greatestgoalie25]

@travinh111: There isn't a channel, sadly. It's only a play...but it is all over, NY, UK, European countries...Would like to see it in T.O. someday.

[@JESmith]

This was the cast of the US Tour, though the girl who did Gary here went to Broadway

[@JadeTheorist3942]

I LOVE ROB MCCLURE! Look at that adorable face! 😍

[@ProfessorStuDDS]

FINAL BWAY CAST!!

[@sodeserving]

How cool...

[@ImWeirdAndILikeIt]

sesame street meets south park lol. my faves are Nicky and Rod!

[@whimsydragon22]

im only 9 years old but i love Avenue q

[@Biowoman.]

i agree i like the one who does rod and princeton

[@jcthefluteman]

do. it's unbelievable!

[@ChamX12]

All i can say is that...well...AvenueQ for the win pretty much!

[@Nabels0]

@Anocoals Bert and Ernie. and Trekkie is Cookie Monster... Not sure who Princeton is though..

[@TheAngelSpeaks15]

lol, they should turn this into a movie. it would be so funny.

[@Milkpaw]

it was posted by franko3110, if that helps you find it. i think its still up.

[@Angie2343]

@janekrahe He's played by a male in the UK productions though.

[@ProfessorStuDDS]

ROB MCCLURE!!! CHAPLIN!!!!

[@kerofresh]

i watch and i'm 13 and i want to see this

[@darkridr25]

This cast is is much better than the UK cast, IMHO, still not quite as good as the original cast, but I would definitely enjoy watching this cast.

[@TheatreIllusion96]

He buddy, Where did you get that shirt??? I want to buy one!! :) haha

[@SpinneyBigBird1095]

I haven't seen this cast, or the touring production itself, but what I don't like about the videos shown HERE is that the cast don't give the puppets the larger-than-life, exuberant, flamboyant personality that I think the puppets deserve to have, seeing as they are PUPPETS and don't have to be realistic. Like if you compare Rick Lyon's (OBC) Nicky with the man who plays Nicky here, Rick's is much more loud and big-movements. They are puppets, so i think they are allowed to move not like humans

[@homie413]

Gary Coleman was a women in the Orig Broadway Cast and was AMAZING!! I read in an Ave Q book my friend got me that they were going to try to get the real Gary Coleman to do it, but he refused. Which I think was dumb on his part. But oh well. That would have been HILARIOUS!

[@blackdog39]

@redtailedhawkdude Was that the original cast?

[@Milkpaw]

well i'm twelve and i watched the entire musical the other day on youtube, and i have never sworn (intentionally- if i was asking what the word meant b4 i knew it was a bad word)

[@joannaburns]

Rob McClure is a genius.

[@redtailedhawkdude]

no one beats the original cast

[@Biowoman.]

rob doesn't change his voice when he does princeton because when he isn't the puppet he sounds the same

[@RatherStrangeCat]

That was the whole point in the Broadway version. They changed the actor to male for the UK version since it was presumed that UK members wouldn't know Gary Coleman that well, so the idea of him being played by a woman wouldn't be as humourous.

[@muppetlover16]

@SpinneyBigBird1095 David Benoit, to be exact, he looks kinda like Tyler Bunch and his Nicky/Trekkie sounds like Kevin Clash, listen to 1:46-1:48

[@tysargent9647]

Oh, great. Just imagine Kevin Clash as Nicky in a film adaptation of Avenue Q, alongside Brian Henson as Rod.

[@tankmaster1018]

Where is all this footage of the play coming from? Can I watch it all somewhere?

[@kerofresh]

sure

[@abbeybumblebee8881]

What are the names of the actors in this video?

[@klossbruehe]

@roddyandy Yes

[@N617A]

@TheMeganpow ppl that sadly don't perform anymore...

[@bway1497]

RIP AVENUE Q

[@GraalsDeadMonster]

@JONASPuppy887 he mean ppl that are under 12 thats kids, i was looking at their website

[@janekrahe]

@FatHellsBells Dude, they didn't "change" him to a girl. The character is still male. He's played by a female because they needed someone short with a high-pitched voice. Same reason a woman plays Peter Pan on stage.

[@geppegep]

lol i love muppets

[@blacksun45]

I saw the show where the girl who plays Kate had a nosebleed XD

[@ItsGood2BtheKING1]

I saw it an hour ago in Detroit. I had the same "gay guy", the other fat gay (he same as in the video), the same japanese girl. It was great!

[@Angie2343]

@janekrahe A good choice in my opinion, because that's how I envision the real Gary Coleman if he didn't have his problems. A tall, handsome black man.

[@frankiedupre3969]

im 11 I love this im not a kid im a pre teen big defrence

[@anonymousp8024]

Frankie Dupre pre teen is 13 - 15 11 is still Kid

[@dannydeveato2106]

lol, this kid would be sixteen now

[@crystalwing16]

im a young teenager too

[@MisslanNusse]

Well to get the fullest of all of the pints you need to have experienced them, a kid has not experienced so much of the theaters involves, so that´s one reason they say not for kids. And another is for there own safty, it´s violet laungish and could give kids bad ideas.

[@xaLeXcRoMbIeX]

@FatHellsBells Its because Everyone knows who Gary Coleman is in America so they made him a girl but had him in West End (but he's dead now :[.)

[@FranMSK]

Me too! You don't have to be a puppet to join right?

[@1wizgirl271]

Not for kids, I'm like, 12, and I already knew those swears two years ago.

[@Nerdfighter7814]

NOT FOR KIDS. Lol. :) he's adorable.

[@miasaki666]

0:20 .... you mean like Rango?

[@MisSiszY]

Well, why did you watch it then?

[@muppetlover16]

@kdog177 He is Elmo to me, because he's sweet, naive and a bit gullible

[@FranMSK]

Good for you! You're obviously smart for your age.

[@roddyandy]

is this the new york preduction

[@GraalsDeadMonster]

So......I just said what it stood on their website

[@nonononoey]

I.... want to go to puppet camp.

[@bakukider]

i am sick of all your comments saying that they are not ventrilloquists i know they arnet ventrilloquists they are puppeteres

[@HappyToBeMe101]

Yeah, I know how it is..

[@champgirl64]

me too

[@Biowoman.]

no it's described as sesame street gone south park

[@N617A]

want me to send you the link to the whole show?