Avenue Q

NATIONAL THEATRE

FEBRUARY 2025

About the Play

A puppet-filled adults only comedy follows a group of twenty-somethings seeking their purpose in big-city life.

Winner of the Tony “Triple Crown” for Best Musical, Best Score and Best Book, Avenue Q is part flesh, part felt and packed with heart.

The laugh-out-loud musical tells the timeless story of a recent college grad named Princeton, who moves into a shabby New York apartment all the way out on Avenue Q. He soon discovers that, although the residents seem nice, it’s clear that this is not your ordinary neighborhood. Together, Princeton and his new-found friends struggle to find jobs, dates and their ever-elusive purpose in life.

Avenue Q is coming to the National Theatre in February 2025.

Show Details

AVENUE Q

Music & Lyrics by Jeff Marx & Robert Lopez

Book by Jeff Whitty

Licensed exclusively by Music Theatre International (Australasia)

Production Team

Executive Producer: Andrew Gyopar

Director: Pip Mushin

Musical Director: Alexandra Byrne

Production Design: Abbey Stanway

Costume Design: Karen Spencer

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Cast

Dorothy:
Lyla Digrazia

Scarecrow:
Kael Serin-D’Alterio

Tin Man:
Ashley Wilsnach

Cowardly Lion:
Leigh Roncon

Wicked Witch:
Keyanna Burgher

Glinda:
Isobel Smart

The Wizard:
Jason Fabbri

Uncle Henry & Emerald City Guard:
Warren Overton

Friends of Dorothy:
Louie Dalzell, DJ Pearce, Charli Curtis

Trees:
Caitlin Carnaby, Tayla Harry, Alyssa Sorgiovanni

Munchkins:
Eve Dresner, Emma Gates, Emma Ho, Melissa Honarvar, Alyssia Jade, Mathilda Kwok, Charlie Mackenzie, Matteo Maxwell, Tabitha Truscott, Damon Willis

Ensemble:
Mareesa Ballao, Aneka Constantine, Caitlin Greenhill, Charbel Karaan, Lyndsay Kirkham, Rebekah Maisano, Matthew Sheahan, Jaynen Yong

By L Frank Baum. Music and lyrics by Harold Arlen and E.Y. Harburg. Adapted from the motion picture screenplay for the Royal Shakespeare Company by John Kane.

Licensed exclusively by Origin Theatrical.

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