I don't know if this has been posted before (I did a search, but these clips were added to YT a year ago) but . . .
I was surfing YouTube when I cam across clips of an illegal school production of Avenue Q in Argentina (in English) without any puppets. The humans are dressed up as the puppets. Blue face paint and everything.
Well maybe they didn't charge money for it which would make it legal, I think. I may be wrong about that since the rights had not been released yet I believe. But if they only did those two songs it wouldn't be illegal, but I doubt that't the case since they built that set.
Oh my God, I really like it. Of course they sorta miss the point with AVENUE Q being a send-up of Sesame Street, but I think it works in its own right. The girl who plays Kate is pretty good, the poor girl playing Christmas Eve sounds like she had a bad cold, but generally I really really enjoyed it. The only one I openly disliked was the person playing Gary Coleman.
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Sorry for the ignorant question but copyrights extend to other nations, right? For some reason I find this a lot less offensive and problematic than the clips of the illegal production of CHICAGO that used an exact replica of Reinking's direction/choreography for the revival.
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Yes they are, but amateurs run into the problem of rights being licensed in English only (they don't have the right to translate), and that is pretty useless for a lot of places. And as right holders won't bother going to Nowhere, Argentina to sue a production made with twenty pesos, a lot of these are around.
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"Oh my God, I really like it. Of course they sorta miss the point with AVENUE Q being a send-up of Sesame Street, but I think it works in its own right."
I totally agree ray.
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Yes, I did notice that too, which I hated. Like I said, I enjoyed this but I absolutely hate it when people change an author's original lyrics to something they think is better (80% of the cases the original lyrics are much better, the other 20% refers to some awful lyricists found on Broadway today-aka Tim Rice, Leslie Bricusse, George Stiles, and Anthony Drewe.
"Some people can thrive and bloom living life in a living room, that's perfect for some people of one hundred and five. But I at least gotta try, when I think of all the sights that I gotta see, all the places I gotta play, all the things that I gotta be at"
Not legal, even if no admission was charged. A license to perform must be granted, and if the owner wants to let a free production perform without a fee that's up to the owner.
Talented cast, but agree that it doesn't really work without puppets.
I am positive I saw more then those two clips a few weeks ago.
What suprises me is the audience still laughs at the jokes even though for the life of me some of those jokes barely translate outside of New York let alone Argentina.
oh yeah i saw this like a year ago. its hysterical and 100% illegal. i have a joke with my friends because they did wedding singer also...and it was like from the people who brought you Avenida Q and Los Singer de Wedding comes 'Illegally Blonde'...sadly they took all the LB videos off.
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