Avenue Q

We spent Saturday evening in bustling Leicester Square watching the 'laugh-out-loud' musical Avenue Q at the Noel Coward Theatre.


This is a synopsis from its website:

"LIFE MAY SUCK ON AVENUE Q, but for a bright-eyed college graduate called Princeton, this is his new neighbourhood. A tiny bank balance and a variety of weird and wonderful friends and neighbours lead Princeton on a hilarious journey of self-discovery. Performed by an unholy comedic alliance of humans and puppets (!)"

It was enjoyable; they had us in stitches, chuckling throughout the performance. There were many parts in this musical that struck a chord; the uncanny similarities in our (my) very own life, parts that all of us (I) could relate to, for example ‘everybody is a little bit racist’ (shock-horror), ‘schadenfreude’ and ‘but only for now’.

There were some naughty + cheeky parts too which made it largely unsuitable for children (in my opinion because I can *occasionally* be quite a prude), which is rather ironic considering the puppet-dominated cast not dissimilar to Sesame Street!

We ended our evening at Bella Italia for an al fresco dinner, thanks to temperate weather and for once I actually remembered to snap some photos of our food (go me!) instead of just gobbling it down and then go, oh fug, I forgot to get some food pix for my blog *burp*. I still have a long way to go prior to becoming the real McCoy (blogger that is!).


We had some delish linguine pollo e funghi + pizza. Food was good but the main show-stealer was the Godfather - chocolate fudge brownies, vanilla and toffee ice cream with some chocolate crunch, dribbled in chocolate sauce, topped off with loads of fresh cream, nuts and two wafer curls. Utterly sinful. We polished off the decadent Godfather in no time – it is to die for, believe you me.



We finished dinner at about half eight and jumped on the tube, in a mad rush to get home to feed a hungry cat!