You’ve seen the banner [mb], now see the play: Avenue Q, the Tony-winning play about a bright-eyed college grad who heads to NYC with big dreams and a tiny bank balance is coming to Seattle.

If you’ve not heard about the play your first reaction to that description might be something along the lines of “Eh, sounds like a zillion other plays out there” so let me clue you in with two very important words: naughty puppets.

That’s right–the story of young Princeton and his adventures in the low-rent district of NYC is performed on stage by puppets operated onstage by actors. The puppets are in homage to Sesame Street but the show “has not been authorized or approved by The Jim Henson Company or Sesame Workshop, which have no responsibility for its content,” a phrase you will see quite often when it comes to this play. Although some of the specific characters are obvious satires of existing Sesame Street characters, the problems they face are a lot more advanced than eating too many cookies or looking for their rubber ducky. The puppet characters address issues like racism, pornography and homosexuality, and “full-puppet nudity”.

Avenue Q plays the Paramount June 10th through 15th.