Live sex show and Lucy the Slut

Oh yes, it all happens on Avenue Q. "What do you do with a BA in English?" opines Princeton at the start of the show and so many of us can empathise with that sentiment.

That, of course, is when he is young, fresh-faced and innocent, before he learns that he's a racist, is degraded by performing cunnilingus on Kate Monster in front of the audience, becomes an alcoholic and shacks up with Lucy the Slut (the name says it all). Then he finds the light and raises $10m for Kate to open a school for monsters. There, that tells you all you need to know about this documentary about life in outer outer outer New York City.

Or does it?

It also tells the story of an upstanding republican banker coming to terms with his homosexuality through extended therapy in the lap of a Japanese therapist called Christmas Eve and the modern day Scrooge character, Trekkie Monster, who has made his millions from Internet porn but wants to help all the little monsters by donating millions to Kate's school. The in-depth character analysis of Trekkie is quite startling in the brutal honesty of the portrayal, particularly when he lets his guard down to sing along to 'grab your dick and double-click' during his exposition of the true origins of the Internet which is, as we all know, for porn.

Oh yes, Avenue Q is wonderful! We saw this in New York and I think both Christopher and me were a trifle hesitant about whether it would live up to our memories and, certainly on my part, it did! It was great. Julie Atherton, who plays Kate Monster and Lucy the Slut, has a great versatile voice, the cast were all bounding over the stage, the puppets were, well, puppets. It was nice to see Ann Harada, who we saw in New York, play Christmas Eve and bring back some very pleasant memories.

I don't often laugh out loud or join in songs at the theatre, but I did tonight (even though my back is playing up). I preferred it with a female Gary Coleman (that just adds another twist to the story) and I'd fo