Chicago Sit-Down Urinetown — Page 2

I'm glad to hear that. I guess the production is no longer affiliated with Porchlight.

Porchlight is producing "Secret Garden" now.

I saw Christine Sherrill (Penelope Pennywise) in a local production of Hello Again and she is FIERCE!!! I can't wait to hear her sing "Privilege to Pee!"

I know there have always been a lot of theatre-goers in Chicago (me and my family are definitley a part of them). However, I have seen a huge increase in people wanting to see more theatre productions after having seen "Wicked" here. A year ago I barely heard anyone around my school talking about Broadway, musicals, and theatre in general. Now I hear more and more talk and interest in theatre than ever. With the popularity of "Wicked", I think it started to expose even more people (who wouldn't traditionally go to theatre productions) to theatre and cause them to have more of an open mind and interest in it.

best12bars, I had the same thought about peeing sitting down when I read the thread title (I also stand...)

TICKETS ON SALE FRIDAY 2/17 at 10am!!!!

The first block of tickets (March 15-April 23) go on sale this Friday at 10am.

Mercury Theater Box Office
(773) 325-1700
or ticketmaster (312) 559-1212.

The Mercury is under 300 seats, so get your tickets early!!

Are there any good or particularly bad seats in the Mercury? What is the seating like? I can't find a seating chart at ticketmaster.

Does anyone know where I can find a seating chart for the Mercury Theater online?

Baritone, it was in the paper a couple weeks ago that Porchlight is no longer on the show. It said they "withdrew" from the project. They are producing their own spring musical.

I'll do my best. A sit-down production is generally a show that is an open-ended run of a Broadway tour. Urinetown isn't a sit-down, it's an open-end run by a Chicago-based producer of a show that will cease to exist when it closes. A sit down really is just a tour that isn't touring. Once Wicked closes in Chicago, it will tour. Urinetown will not. Though you can use open-end and sit-down interchangeably, they really aren't the same. Chicago's Wicked did not tour. They used the tour set because the tour was in Chicago immediately before the new production and it would have been difficult to assemble a new set for Chicago. Instead they simply modified the set for a more permanent run. They have an entirely new, Chicago-based cast. In the U.S., Chicago is the second largest theatre market, and is more likely able to support long-running commercial shows (LA and San Francisco are the only other cities that can hold long-run commercial shows).

Yeah well, I didn't want to get into that. :o)

In attempt to not start a new thread for one question, I've bumped this one instead.


I'm just curious as to who knows about the Urinetown-Wicked spoof and has any information about it? (During "Look at the Sky," I believe, I'm not by any means a Urinetown expert..)

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maybe the show closed cause your baritone wasn't distinctive enough!