Views on ‘Q’

AFTER reading your informative article on “Spamalot” and “Avenue Q” [“Rescripting the Strip,” Sept. 11], I would like to tell Steve Wynn that I’d rather spend three times the money to go to New York and see those shows than go to Vegas and see his 90-minute watered-down versions. Wynn is eliminating a lot of middle-class citizens who might otherwise be able to attend these performances.

DONNA PETRILLI

Dove Canyon

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I am happy to see that Jeff Whitty is continuing to write plays since the success of “Avenue Q” [“Don’t Shush the House,” Sept. 4]. If it’s true that “In theater, the writer is king,” it would have been nice for the king to let “Avenue Q” tour the country so the audiences he professes to love would have a chance to see it, instead of selling it to Las Vegas in a cut-down version that will be available only to those with the resources to go there. The dismissal of “the road” in favor of Las Vegas dollars by shows such as “Avenue Q” and “Spamalot” is a sad development for the American theater.

TONY ARNWest

Hollywood