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Critique Avenue Q
Wright Baber

Avenue Q show critique

I went and saw Avenue Q the day it started. I went into the show not knowing anything about Avenue Q. I had no idea it was a musical and I really wasn’t expecting it to be puppets. To be honest when I first saw that it was puppets I almost walked out, but the show completely surprised me. My favorite aspects of the show were the acting and the set.
I don’t know too much about acting but from my experience I think the actors did a great job. I didn’t see any actors try to over play the part. One of the actors went to my high school, and he did a great job. The play had a great humor, I felt like I was laughing the whole time. I thought all of the actors had great singing voices. The one thing I didn’t like were the puppets. I was too distracted by the actors so I never really looked at the puppets.
Another main part about the musical that I really liked was the set. The set was amazing I loved the building’s, it looked just like buildings you would see in New York. In high school I took theatre tech so I know how much work it takes to build a set like that. The musical also had great lighting; The lighting change went well with every scene.
Overall I thought that the musical was very good. I really enjoyed watching it and I look forward to seeing another production put on by Texas Tech. It was a great performance that included good acting, quality singing, and a great set.
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