Avenue Q Uncut: Backstage On The West End!
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Come with us behind the scenes at Avenue Q on London's West End! Nothing is off limits as we discuss learning to work with puppets and performing the iconic show with cast members Meg Hateley, Emily Benjamin, Noah Harrison and Charlie McCullagh, as well as puppet coaches Iestyn Evans and Andy Heath from Talk To The Hand.
Producer: Sam Cleal
Interview by: Daniel Welsh
Camera: Dan Faber
Edited by: Kenite Christian
00:00 – Introduction to the cast
00:47 – The cast sums up Avenue Q for those who haven't seen it
01:12 – How much of the original show has been changed for this revival?
01:47 – Has Avenue Q aged well?
02:35 – How does Avenue Q play with boundaries and themes that make people uncomfortable, but not be offensive?
03:15 – When you were cast, how aware of Avenue Q were you and how much puppetry had you done?
03:47 – How intense was the puppet training you did?
06:17 – Introduction to Iestyn Evans and Andy Heath
06:35 – How are puppets in the theatre different to those on screen?
06:51 – What are the main things people should know when they’re starting out with puppets?
07:24 – How intense was the training that the actors had to go through?
08:12 – How do the Avenue Q performers keep us looking at their puppets and not them?
09:23 – Back to the cast... as actors who don’t traditionally work with puppets, what was the hardest thing not to?
12:01 – Can you talk us through the choreography of the puppet sex?
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But I had to laugh for "It was subversive for its era." I like the show, but ultimately, it's not even the first show to have done an adult story with puppets. There were a couple movies that tried to do the same thing. They were just way less successful.
Avenue Q is the idea's best execution. Probably because of both the quality of the writing and its use of musical numbers that I don't think its predecessors tried.
Avenue Q Uncut: Backstage On The West End!
HuffPost UK
5,186 views
Come with us behind the scenes at Avenue Q on London's West End! Nothing is off limits as we discuss learning to work with puppets and performing the iconic show with cast members Meg Hateley, Emily Benjamin, Noah Harrison and Charlie McCullagh, as well as puppet coaches Iestyn Evans and Andy Heath from Talk To The Hand.
Producer: Sam Cleal
Interview by: Daniel Welsh
Camera: Dan Faber
Edited by: Kenite Christian
00:00 – Introduction to the cast
00:47 – The cast sums up Avenue Q for those who haven't seen it
01:12 – How much of the original show has been changed for this revival?
01:47 – Has Avenue Q aged well?
02:35 – How does Avenue Q play with boundaries and themes that make people uncomfortable, but not be offensive?
03:15 – When you were cast, how aware of Avenue Q were you and how much puppetry had you done?
03:47 – How intense was the puppet training you did?
06:17 – Introduction to Iestyn Evans and Andy Heath
06:35 – How are puppets in the theatre different to those on screen?
06:51 – What are the main things people should know when they’re starting out with puppets?
07:24 – How intense was the training that the actors had to go through?
08:12 – How do the Avenue Q performers keep us looking at their puppets and not them?
09:23 – Back to the cast... as actors who don’t traditionally work with puppets, what was the hardest thing not to?
12:01 – Can you talk us through the choreography of the puppet sex?
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