Can You Tell Me How to Get....

....to Avenue Q? The long-running Broadway show, which dropped its last curtain on the Great White Way in September, has reemerged as an off-Broadway production, taking up residence at the New World Stages (340 West 50th Street). It's a homecoming of sorts for the offbeat musical, which in 2003 began a two-month run off-Broadway (at the Vineyard Theatre on East 15th Street), before taking residence at the John Golden Theatre shortly thereafter.

The comically subversive show, inspired by the characters of Sesame Street, was written by Robert Lopez and Jeff Marx, friends who have taken the play around the world, most notably to London and Las Vegas. (The show did not do well with Sin City audiences and it closed after a mere six months.)

Regardless, after an Avenue-Q-less month in New York, we're very happy to have the show that gave the world such songs as "Everyone's a Little Bit Racist" and "Schadenfreude" back on stage in the city that spawned it.

Drew Lachey, on the Brighter Side of Life

Drew Lachey, Bebe Neuwirth and Cheyenne Jackson were among the headliners appearing in this morning's "Broadway on Broadway" performance, held in the heart of Manhattan. More than 200 of the Great White Way's actors showed up in Times Square, hailing from shows including Avenue Q, Chicago, In the Heights, Spamalot, Xanadu and Young Frankenstein. The free extravaganza, hosted by Lachey, was the seventeenth annual outing for Broadway on Broadway. For fans of big-budget musicals, the show is one of the year's easy-on-the-wallet must-sees. After all, without spending a dime, where else could you find a Greek muse masquerading as an Australian on roller skates in the same space as a medieval knight plucked from the wacky collective genius that is Monty Python?