“In the documentary ShowBusiness, a group of New York theater critics sits around the dinner table discussing the prospects for the 2003 Broadway season, and when the topic moves to Avenue Q, one wag scoffs that it’ll surely be closed by January. Turns out he was only off by five-and-a-half years.”

After all the tragedies of the past week, now this? I’ve seen it twice and can confidently say it was an important step for the “small” musical movement of the late 90s/early 00s. Oh yeah, it also beat Wicked for the Tony.