Avenue Q - It Sucks to Be Me - Tony Awards

Allison has been watching "Johnny and the Sprites" for a little while now, it's on Playhouse Disney apparently. Well, the story goes something like this: Johnny finds out there are magical creatures are living in his backyard, and so he sings with them for the at home audience because apparently that's what you're supposed to do when you find there are magical creatures living in your backyard.

Nancy let me listen to a CD she burned of the Avenue Q Broadway musical a few years ago. She had been to see the play in New York, and loved it. It's won Tony Awards, and has since been playing not only in NY but made the trip to Las Vegas. It's a very irreverant, adult version of Sesame Street for those of you not in the know. I freakin' loved it, and laughed so much when I heard the songs Nancy played for me. It's now in iTunes, and on my and Rachel's iPods. I just love how very taboo subjects are poked fun at and sung about, with no regard to if people are offended.

To tie these two very different subjects together, I present Allison. Rachel noticed how she thought the voice of Princeton (main character in A.Q.) sounded like Johnny from the Sprites show. Well, after an assist from www.imdb.com we found that John Tartaglia was indeed the voice of not only Princeton, but also Rod from Avenue Q. He also was tapped to start his own kids TV show on Disney, and that's where "Johnny and the Sprites" was born. After reading his biography, he apparently grew up around the puppets on "Sesame Street" so it wasn't a huge stretch for him to be still working with puppets. He also was appearing as Lumiere on the Broadway "Beauty and the Beast" cast. Just a wonderful talent to watch and behold. Well, Allison also figured out that Johnny is the singer for a lot of the A.Q. songs, and sings along in her car seat after wearing Rachel and I down to listen to it again. I gotta tell you, listening to Allison sing along to "Everyone's a little bit Racist" will make you cry laughing .... trust me.

Love to all.