Theatre review: Avenue Q, King’s Theatre, Edinburgh

IT’S NO longer a new show, and it’s even half a decade since Sell A Door launched this hugely successful British touring production. Yet Robert Lopez and Jeff Marx’s musical-with-puppets Avenue Q, first seen in New York in 2003, still has the power to attract a younger adult audience to venues like the King’s Theatre than any other show on the circuit; and its no-holds-barred mix of economic and sexual frankness about the plight of millennials with degrees but no jobs, and little prospect of a conventional marriage-and-family future, remains both irresistibly entertaining, and just slightly, merrily visionary about the way our western society is changing.