Avenue Q (Old Joint Stock Theatre)
Having dived into the nearest phone box (difficult as there aren’t many these days) I’ve emerged as my alter ego the Musical 🤓 Geek after a lengthy period of enforced retirement due to a global pandemic and stepped out into the small but, perfectly formed surroundings of the Old Joint Stock Theatre in Birmingham and on to the somewhat downtrodden thoroughfare otherwise known as Avenue Q. Inhabited by a mixture of human, puppet and monster characters, all a bit down on their luck but, making the best of what they have, eloquently described by Brian (an enthusiastically physical performance from Thomas Cove) with the phrase ‘It Sucks to be Me!’, although I think it pretty much sucks to be everybody at this location at least to begin with. Seriously ‘smashing’ the vocal performance is Rebecca Withers as kindergarten teaching assistant Kate Monster and cabaret performer Lucy the Slut (yes, you did read that correctly and she can certainly make you feel special as does the whole performanc