Broadway Street With Two Left Sides: 'Avenue Q'  My friend Jane
Shaffmaster gave me a call. Jane's loved musicals since she was
young enough to play the lead in "Annie" and spends a greater
percentage of her annual income on Broadway than most heavy-duty
Christians tithe every year. She was perusing the latest news on
Playbill and was quite dismayed that political satire wasn't
affected by The Change. Like most on our side, Jane is fairly
good humored about Republicans being the butt of jokes, but she
expects those jokes to be distributed evenly across partisan
lines. A play called "Avenue Q" was rewriting its script to
reflect the new administration but like most satirists*, they
refuse to mock the new President.  "Avenue Q" is a puppet show
for adults. A song called "For Now" has the puppets reassure
each other that most things in life are temporary, like hair and
sex. Until recently, one of those temporary things was "George
Bush." Knowing that Obama was to be shortly inaugurated, the
producers and writers