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| - Avenue Q was brilliant. Keep in mind, however, that Avenue Q comes with a traveling cast.
The Gammage Auditorium itself? Not impressed.
From the outside, yes, it looks really cool. Some of the lights are out, but over all, it looks really cool from the outside.
Inside? It's a bit outdated. The bathrooms are gross, and half of the floors are completely handicap inaccessible. Of course, they don't tell you this when you get your tickets. We showed up, and asked where the elevator was. Rudely, we were told there wasn't one, and if I had wanted accessible seats, I should have bought full priced orchestra ones. I walk slowly and with a cane, and while I can handle a few stairs when I must, the 2.5 flights of stairs nearly killed me on the way up, and then I didn't go to the restrooms when I wanted too at intermission, because there was no way in hell I would have walked back up there. I almost burst into tears as it was.
I then had to rinse and repeat to get down at the end. Again, multiple flights of stairs, people pushing me, and rude ushers chiding me for not buying outrageously priced orchestra tickets which were accessible. Way to be classist AND ableist at the same time.
Funny, isn't it, that such a tongue in cheek commentary on discrimination should be held at a place that both architecturally AND verbally discriminates?
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