Tim McArthur Interviews... Jason Moore

Sunday 18th June
5pm BST
Repeated daily at 2pm BST and 10pm BST

This week on TheatreRadio, Tim McArthur is joined by Jason Moore, director of Avenue Q, the unholy comedic alliance of humans and puppets now playing at the Noel Coward Theatre. As well as playing some fantastic music, Tim has a pair of tickets to give away, so make sure you tune in.

Jason’s Broadway credits incude: Avenue Q (Tony nomination, Best Director). Off-Broadway: Avenue Q, The Crumple Zone. Associate director: Les Misérables (Broadway, national tour), Ragtime (Vancouver). Writer: The Floatplane Notebooks (Charlotte Repertory Theatre). TV: episodes of "Dawson's Creek," "Everwood" and "One Tree Hill." Upcoming projects: A live-action movie musical of Disney's The Hunchback of Notre Dame for ABC TV and Shrek: The Musical on Broadway in 2007.

Live 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(!), Avenue Q was the winner of the 2004 Tony Award® for Best New Musical, Best Book Of A Musical and Best Original Score.

Avenue Q is the result of a collaboration between Robert Lopez and Jeff Marx. The pair began writing Avenue Q in 1999, thinking that their idea would make for a great TV series. Three years later it opened off-Broadway, and after extending 4 times at the Vineyard Theatre, it transferred to Broadway.

NM