No, this entry won't tell how pathetic my life is. This is actually a tribute to one of my favorite musicals - Avenue Q, the winner of the 2004 Tony Awards for Best Musical.
Avenue Q tells about the challenges that the people in their 20s are facing today - finding a job, finding one's purpose, falling in love, homosexuality, racism, promiscuity, avoiding commitment to name a few. These are the problems currently faced by the generation who grew up watching Sesame Street, so most of the characters are puppets and the songs are associated from this show as well. In fact, some of the characters were based from the Sesame Steet - Nicky and Rod reminds me of Ernie and Bert while Trekkie monster is based from Cookie monster.
I was "introduced" to this musical when I watched the 2004 Tony's where Hugh Jackman was the host (the reason why I watched this show in the first place). It caught my interest when I heard the song "It sucks to be" sung by several puppets on an upbeat tone. I managed to get a copy of the whole musical from Raquel, and after watching that, I was determined to watch it onstage. I even asked my colleague onshore to buy me the Avenue Q soundtrack. I always listen to the CD when I'm depressed and it never fails to amuse me (because they sound so happy even if they're pathetic). I really like this musical so much. Fortunately, I was able to build a fan base where I recruited Lolo Gilbert and Maddy (miss you guys!). Sometimes we would even sing some of the songs altogether.
To my delight, I heard that there will be a Manila production of this famous musical! It will be produced by Atlantis Production and will be directed by Bobby Garcia (the director of Rent Manila production). This will be shown in Manila from August-September. Just in time for my birthday! I'm planning to go home on that month and I wish to watch it with Gilbert and Maddy onstage :)
Anyway, let me share some of the lines of the songs that I really like:
What will it be, where will it be? My purpose in life is a mystery. Gotta find my purpose, gotta find me.
I wish I could go back to college, in college you know who you are.
Except for death and paying taxes, everything in life is only for now. Life maybe scary but it's only temporary.
There's a fine line between reality and pretend; a fairy tale and a lie.
And below are some interesting phrases from the songs:
The Internet is for porn, grab ur d*ck and double click for porn
Everyone is a little bit racist
Schadenfreude, happiness at the misfortune of others
You can be as loud as you want (when you're making love)
Anyway, enough about this blog, I'll just listen to the soundtrack in the meantime.
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