A Walk Down the Avenue
I enjoyed the musical Avenue Q, which won the Tony Award for Best Musical in 2004, I don't love the show, though I thought the second act was very good, which helped me appreciate the evening. For my taste, the first act is certainly fun, but it had more of a sense of satirical sketches and didn't didn't its richness until after the intermission.
The same two or three songs from Avenue Q tend to get all the videos from the show ("It Sucks to Be Me" and "Everyone's a Little Bit Racist," in particular), so it was a treat to find this number posted, and most especially with members of the original cast.
It's the song “I Wish I Could Go Back to College” performed by Stephanie D'Abruzzo; Rick Lyon; John Tartaglia. If Ms. D'Abruzzo looks familiar, that could be because she went to the beloved Northwestern. Okay, that's not the reason -- it's because when the series Scrubs did their episode "My Musical," she played the patient who has a head injury which causes her to only hear everything in song. (There's also another connection between the episode and Avenue Q -- a lot of the songs in the TV show were co-written by Robert Lopez & Jeff Marx who had written the songs for Avenue Q, winning a Tony Award for Best Score of a Musical.
P.S. When one of the characters sings, "I could date my T.A.", the word "date" is not in the original lyric. It was cleaned up for television...
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