SF Station: Avenue Q at San Francisco’s Orpheum Theatre
Thank god for lawyers who hate their jobs.In fact, ex-attorney turned writer Jeff Marx believes, “Everyone should quit their jobs and start doing something they love.” For Marx, that “something” happens to be writing Broadway show tunes. His pent-up creativity exploded into the highly imaginative Avenue Q. Now playing at San Francisco’s Orpheum Theatre, the 2004 Tony Award-winning production (Marx’s first musical) is an uproariously Sesame Street parody highlighting those “un-sunny days” of post-college life.
Set against the bleak backdrop of a gritty Hells Kitchen-esque apartment building, colorful Yuppie puppets (with names like Princeton) and fleshy actors alike struggle with finding jobs, romance, and themselves in NYC. Without the safety net of a college meal plan or their parent’s bank account, not even their soft, furry puppet exteriors can save them from bad decisions and the hard knocks of real life. Forget South Beach — it’s literally Sesame Street gone wild!