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Dateline: 11th March, 2009
Avenue Q Moves Avenue Q will close in the West End at the Noël Coward Theatre on 28th March but only to reopen at the Gielgud Theatre on Shaftesbury Avenue on 1 June (booking to Saturday 26 September). Tickets arte now onsale. When it was announced last October that the show would finish its long run at the Noël Coward, it was in its third successful year and as it celebrated 1,000 performances in the West End, was still attracting packed houses. But the producers decided that it may be the right time to bring the show to a natural end - and go out on a high note. However, over the last four months, it has seen its best box office sales yet and the highest weekly grosses since the production opened in June 2006. "When I first saw Avenue Q in New York over five years ago," produycer Cameron Mackintosh said, "I found it a very funny, fresh and clever look at the trials and tribulations of young people finding their way in life, with splendidly witty swipes at contemporary hang-ups. So I was rather surprised when the show opened in 2006 that the British national critics mostly didn't get it and predicted that it would only last three months. Three years later Q is going stronger than ever, so much so that ever since I announced the last six months at the Coward to allow Calender Girls to be booked into the theatre, business has surged to such an extent that I'm delighted to announce that Avenue Q is going to continue its run on the Avenue – Shaftesbury that is – at the start of June." Since the show opened in 2006, it has been featured as one of Philip Fisher's Top 5 London shows in the BTG.
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