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Avenue Q is an Tony award-winning musical that was conceived by Robert Lopez and Jeff Marx, who wrote the music and lyrics. The book is by Jeff Whitty. Most of the characters in the show are puppets operated by actors onstage. The set depicts several tenements on a rundown street in an "outer borough" of New York City. Both the live characters and puppet characters sing, and short animated video clips are played as part of the story. The characters who are not puppets relate to the puppets, rather than to the actors holding them. The puppets also speak directly to each other and never to the actors operating them. During the course of the show, a puppet character may be operated by more than one of the actor-operators, although the same actor creates the voice for a particular puppet even if he or she is not holding the puppet at the time.