Tonight we’re seeing Avenue Q at the Orpheum Theater in San Francisco. We actually saw it on Broadway three-and-a-half years ago, but it wouldn’t be the first time we’ve gone to touring productions of shows we’ve already seen in New York (we’ve seen both Putnam County Spelling Bee and Altar Boyz here in SF this past year, for example, after having seen them originally in New York, and we saw Mamma Mia in New York and DC). Soon, though, we’ll be able to start seeing some shows we didn’t have an opportunity to see back east; the new production of Sweeney Todd, for example, opens here in just a couple of weeks, and the much-anticipated-on-my-behalf Spring Awakening is scheduled to tour here next here.