Sometimes it seems like the distance from the Quad-Cities to Iowa City is about a million miles.

In some geographic areas, the two would be considered close enough to be able to work together. The distance certainly doesn’t seem to matter on college football Saturdays.

But we’re some what in different media markets — even though it’s more than once that I’ve heard a Q-C radio station playing while in an Iowa City store — and, seemingly, different worlds.

Iowa City aligns itself more with Cedar Rapids. Interstate 380 between the two has even been labeled the “Iowa Technology Corridor.”

All this was very evident last week when the University of Iowa’s Hancher Auditorium announced its 2009-10 season.

Since last summer’s flooding destroyed Hancher, auditorium officials have made good use of other facilities in the Iowa City area to accommodate most of its 2008-09 season.

But I guess what honks me off about the upcoming season is that the Broadway tour of “Avenue Q,” which I was hoping to see last season only for it to be postponed, will be playing not in Iowa City, but rather in Cedar Rapids. And it will be playing in the U.S. Cellular Center arena, which doesn’t have a theater configuration.

“It’s been complicated,” Hancher executive director Charles Swanson told the Cedar Rapids Gazette. “A lot of discussions have gone on, but we finally figured we could make that happen.”

It’s about the time you wanna say, “Uh, hello? We’ve got a great theater in Davenport you could use.” Why couldn’t the Adler Theatre serve as the touring show’s location? Thanks to its remodeling a few years ago, it has the technical capabilities, and the staff there knows what it’s doing.

(“Avenue Q,” by the way, is a three-time Tony Award winner, including for Best Musical, in 2004. It’s an adult show with puppets that a friend describes as “ ‘Sesame Street,’ with cussing.”)

Bringing “Avenue Q” or any other Hancher show here would mean an influx to the Quad-City economy, from people filling up with cheaper gasoline to pre-show meals to after-show cocktails.

Maybe the Hancher folks could learn from the University of Iowa Museum of Art, which was also displaced by the flood and has found a new home, for at least the next three years, at the Figge Art Museum in Davenport. All indications show that relationship has gone extremely well.

My online map says it’s 37 miles from Iowa City to Cedar Rapids, and — trust me on this one — it’s 50 miles from my exit in northwest Davenport to the University of Iowa.

Is that 13-mile difference enough of a reason to shut us out?

David Burke blogs at my.quadsville.com/DavidBurke.

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