Avenue Q

Avenue Q, Norwich Theatre Royal, 2011.

Cast: Matthew J Henry, Rachel Jerram, Edward Judge, Katharine Moraz, Adam Pettigrew, Jaqueline Tate, Chris Thatcher, Aveta Chen, Luke Kempner, Arina Li, Michelle Cornelius, Nicholas Duncan, Kayi Ushe.

Music & lyrics: Robert Lopez & Jeff Marx

Book: Jeff Whitty

Director: Jason Moore.

This was my second time seeing this and I wonder if I managed another one after that? I loved it and seeing this programme made me want to listen to a cast recording but the one I thought I had is missing from the cupboard so perhaps I imagined it. I was thinking it might be time for a revival but I wonder if it would work so well now, with some of the things they make jokey songs about having got an awful lots worse in the last decade or so, just off the top of my head, Everyone's a Little Bit Racist (basically the Conservative party theme tune) and The Internet is for Porn (sex crimes are worse than ever, coincidence?). I'd definitely watch a sequel although I suppose it would be about gentrification and zero hours contracts would be no fun at all.