In Performance: ‘Avenue Q’

“Avenue Q,” the racy, stereotype-tweaking “Sesame Street”-style musical about humans and puppets coming of age, turns 10 on Wednesday. The show, with music and lyrics by Robert Lopez and Jeff Marx and book by Jeff Whitty, originally opened off Broadway at the Vineyard Theater in March 2003. Five months later it opened on Broadway at the Golden Theater, and went on to receive three Tony Awards, including an upset win for best musical over “Wicked.” In this video, Sala Iwamatsu, who plays Christmas Eve, a Japanese-born therapist who speaks with an exaggerated accent, offers advice to Kate Monster (played by the puppeteer Veronica J. Kuehn) about her love life in the nmber “The More You Ruv Someone.” The show is playing Off Broadway at New World Stages, where it moved in 2009.

Recent videos in this series include Rory O’Malley singing a number from the musical “Nobody Loves You” at Second Stage Theater, and Christopher Denham in a scene from Steven Levenson’s new drama “The Unavoidable Disappearance of Tom Durnin,” at the Roundabout Theater Company’s Laura Pels Theater.