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"'Avenue Q' let me put a lot of money in the bank," Marx says. "I have the security of never having to wonder where my next meal is coming from, which has been a blessing and a curse. A blessing because it's a lovely sense of security. But ... it was a lot easier when my motivation was fed by hunger."
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One of the musical's many beneficiaries has been the small off-Broadway Vineyard Theatre, where the musical first was presented in early 2003. It was one of two nonprofit theaters — the other being the New Group — which came aboard as producers.
"The show absolutely helped raise our visibility," says Jennifer Garvey-Blackwell, the Vineyard's executive director.
"It still does and we've done a lot of musicals since then," she adds, such as "Miracle Brothers" and "title of show."
The idea for "Avenue Q" was born where many musical-theater ideas seem to germinate — the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop for would-be writers of musicals.
Goodman went to a presentation of three songs — two of which still remain in the show — written by Marx and Lopez that also included puppeteer Rick Lyon.
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The producers weren't sure what kind of reaction to expect from the subscription audience at the Vineyard, a small off-Broadway theater j