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Vokes Players Announce Their Production of Avenue Q

The Vokes Players of Wayland present the wild and unique musical Avenue Q, directed by Laura Espy, musical direction by Howard Boles.

Performances will be held at Beatrice Herford’s Vokes Theatre, Route 20 in Wayland, MA from October 30th through November 15th on Thursday -Saturday evenings at 8PM with a 2PM matinee on Saturdays, November 8th & 15th.  For tickets and information call 508-358-4034, or order online via our website www.vokesplayers.org.  Ticket prices are $20.00 for Thursday evenings ad Saturday matinees; $28.00 for Friday and Saturday evenings.

What would it be like to live next door to a puppet?  Not a “can’t-think-for-himself” puppet, an actual puppet!  This inventive, gigglingly-funny T0ony-winning musical will surprise you with the answer.  One doesn’t often get a chance a s an adult to learn life-lessons from a puppet--but that’s what’s in store in this R-rated take on Sesame Street. Puppets and “real people” all live in the same neighborhood, and all deal with the same adult issues: sexuality, unemployment, bigotry, and a sense of identity.  Princeton, a young puppet who has just left school, is ready to take on the world ... but he finds the world surprisingly uninterested.  Still, he holds onto his dreams, he makes a living, he finds love, and he strives for more.  The magic of this theatrical experience comes, in part, from the complete earnestness of the characters in eir expresisions of sadness, love,embarrassment,confusion, longing, and hope. 

The cast for the show includes: Mark Estano from West Roxbury.

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