Little Fuzzy Felty f@ckers float your boat

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News that a number of West End shows are closing before the end of their runs reminded us that we hadn’t announced the results of the last Kudocities poll, the survey that keeps London, Brighton and Edinburgh awake for days.

The last poll we did asked “What is your favourite London musical?”

And without further ado, the winner was…...[drum roll] Avenue Q! The show where Sesame Street meets South Park. Yes, the festival of adults prancing around with their fists up inanimate felt creatures’ arses beat the competition hands down. Or is that hands up?

And while we’d expect the baying masses around these parts to go for satire, it seems once again, dear reader, you have lowered the intellectual bar to a point where not even a puppet could limbo under it.

Featuring such sing-along classics as “Everyone’s A Little Bit Racist”, “I’m Not Wearing Any Underwear Today”, “If You Were Gay”, and, of course “The Internet is for Porn” and giving cheap tickets all year round, it’s no surprise this show was your favourite – with 32% of the vote.

In case you’ve never seen these muppets with attitude, here’s a little clip.

Next in the poll came Spamalot, the Monthy Python-based medieval romp. Now I enjoyed the Holy Grail, but an evening that relies on jokes ripped shamelessly from the original can grate on the nerves…..I was half expecting a dead parrot to pop up at any moment. Still, there is the original and excellent touch of sending up lots of other musicals as a genre, especially with the now-nearly-legendary tune The Song That Goes Like This and if you’re a fan of Python and haven’t seen it you are missing out.

Thirdly comes the somewhat dated Les Miserables, the not-laugh-a-minute romp tale of French morality, if that’s not an oxymoron. It’s the longest running musical ever, even older than the jokes in Spamalot. But, judging by your love of Avenue Q, you may have scored this classic tale a little higher if it were performed by puppets – imagine Kermit as Valjean to Miss Piggy’s Cosette. Hugo would turn in his grave, if he hadn’t already after they made his novel into a ruddy musical. Although if he did, at least when they made the puppet version he’d now be facing the right way up. Keep up. Wait, someone’s already stole my idea, just as I had it.

And I lied. Wicked scored the same as Les Miserables, so is equal third, but that’s just some sort of witchy shit based around something to do with the Wonderful Wizard of Oz, and yes, it might have consistently broken box office records but I’ve never seen it, and it’s enough to know that there’s always some twat out there that can’t resist doing a version with puppets

What is the connection between musicals and puppets? Is it a gay thing?

I’m off to watch the best musical that wasn’t even in the poll.

And apologies to those who hate musicals, as there was no option to say ‘none of the above’. But, of course, if you don’t like musicals, beware – you might get stuck in one.

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