| Metaphors for laughter are often surprisingly violent, from busting a gut to splitting your sides to tumbling down the jagged face of Joke Mountain. Break a funny bone with this GrouponLive deal. Metaphors for laughter are often surprisingly violent, from busting a gut to splitting your sides to tumbling down the jagged face of Joke Mountain. Break a funny bone with this GrouponLive deal. The Deal One ticket to see Avenue Q When: any performance from April 17June 1 Where: Lower Ossington Theatre Click here to view a complete list of showtimes. Seating Options $29.99 for the floor or reserved general section ($49.99 value) $35.99 for the premium section ($59.99 value) Click here to view the seating chart. Avenue Q The longrunning Broadway hit Avenue Qwinner of the Tony triple crown for Best Musical, Book, and Score in 2004packs its rollicking musical with irreverent wit and puppets that say the darndest things. A crossspecies mix of puppets and humans centres on Princeton, a wellmeaning recent college grad who moves to New York City with Big Applesized dreams and gets a much needed realworld education from his neighbours. Along the way, bouncy songs and sassy dialogue delve into topical issues such as politics and bedroom mores. The offcolour, mature, and perversely funny production is warm, endearing, and more heartrending than a sockpuppet production of King Lear. Key to both the tearjerking and sidesplitting: the score, written by Robert Lopez and Jeff Marx, which captures the cheery feel of a children\'s television show while stuffing in tabooskewering lyrics. Tunes such as I\'m Not Wearing Underwear Today and Everyone\'s a Little Bit Racist don\'t skimp on the jokes, but not every song drips with the same acerbic wit. Ballads, including the wistful I Wish I Could Go Back to College, stand out for their genuine emotion, filling Avenue Q with a resonance that lurks just beneath its fuzzy, politically incorrect exterior. The musical is intended for mature audiences only, or parents training their children for a life of detention. Lower Ossington Theatre When Brittany Goldfield Rodrigues of Broadway World paid a visit to Lower Ossington Theatre\'s production of RENT, she was struck by many thingsthe dynamite performances and powerhouse vocals, the costumes, the deceptively simple stagingbut the space itself might have taken the cake. An intimate venue can make an experience immersive, and Lower Ossington Theatre\'s three performance spaces possess that quality in spades. Goldfield Rodrigues noted how instead of a stage, the theatre kept audiences and performers on the same planethe show in an open space at the front with individual chairs facing ithelping viewers feel as though they were in the same world as the characters and dispelling the worry that the performers might be invading giants. |
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