Mercury Theater Chicago's Hit Revival Avenue Q Extends Again
Mercury Theater Chicago’s revival of their homegrown production of Avenue Q has extended performances for the second time due to popular demand, now playing through December 30, 2018. A racy cross between South Park and Sesame Street, Avenue Q is a modern musical focusing on a group of unique 20-somethings making their way through the “Big City”, seeking their purpose in life. This clever 2003 Broadway hit by songwriters Jeff Marx and Robert Lopez and playwright Jeff Whitty, transfers well in a breezy, intimate staging by director L. Walter Stearns at Mercury Theater Chicago. The show is the story of Princeton, a 23-year old college grad with no job, no girlfriend, and no sense of purpose. After moving to Avenue Q, a fictional slum on Manhattan’s Lower East Side, Princeton meets plucky but lonely Katie Monster, a kindergarten teaching assistant with dreams of opening a school for monsters like herself or “people of fur” in her words. Princeton’s other n...