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Publication: Dance Magazine
Publication Date: 01-OCT-03 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Dance theater.(Avenue Q)(Theater Review)

Article Excerpt
Broadway choreographers are used to making the best of things: Actors who can't move. Scenery that gels in the way. Musical arrangements set to stone. But when choreographer Ken Roberson signed on For Avenue Q, the first musical of the 2003-04 season, he had an obstacle that made all the others look small: Many of his performers had no legs to dance with.

Avenue Q, which became a huge success off Broadway last season and moved into the Golden Theatre during the summer, is about the gorgeous mosaic of people living on the low rent, outer-borough thoroughfare that gives the show its name. In Anna Louizos's evocative set, it's a neighborhood of dilapidated two story townhouses populated by whimsically assorted New Yorkers--immigrants, recent college grads, minorities, a blonde femme fatale named Lucy the Slut, a...

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