‘Avenue Q’ to hit the road after Las Vegas run
“Avenue Q” has been released from its exclusive run at Wynn Las Vegas to make way for “Monty Python’s Spamalot.”
The 2004 Tony winner for best musical, which opened in September 2005 at the Las Vegas hotel and casino resort for an open-ended run, will now close May 28 at the 1,200-seat Broadway Theatre, built especially to house it. That space will be reconfigured as the Grail Theatre for “Spamalot,” expected to open in 2007.
The reconfiguration will help accommodate a major expansion at the resort, said Wynn Las Vegas owner Steve Wynn.
“Avenue Q” producer Kevin McCollum, reached by phone Wednesday, said that the Las Vegas run “was very good for us. When we made this arrangement it was right for the show, and it protected us artistically and financially. Now I am very excited that I can actually take phone calls from other theaters -- and I’m getting a lot of them today.”
Meanwhile, “Avenue Q’s” New York production is entering a third year on Broadway.
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Lynne Heffley
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