Chicago Sit-Down Urinetown- Page 2

[nick2]

Posted: 2/2/06 at 11:10am

Urinetown will actually employ EIGHT equity actors including asm and sm not just ONE. The amazing cast includes equity actors from Chicago and New York who have strong resumes and booming careers.Surprising you haven't heard of them.

[Jon]

Posted: 2/2/06 at 12:08pm

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

[Fosse76]

Posted: 2/2/06 at 12:40pm

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

Possibly not. The producers of the Broadway production of Urinetown own the Chicago Theatre, so perhaps they are involved as well?

[Chicago74]

Posted: 2/2/06 at 3:33pm

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!"

[Jon]

Posted: 2/2/06 at 3:45pm

The Broadway producers of Urinetown have nothing to do with the Chicago production of Urinetown.

The Chicago Theater has nothing to do with anything.
Updated On: 2/2/06 at 03:45 PM

[GilmoreGirlO2]

Posted: 2/2/06 at 4:14pm

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.

[LouieLovesTheater]

Posted: 2/3/06 at 5:29pm

Michael Buchanan (Bobby Strong) is a WONDERFUL performer. I did a regional show with him a few summers back. Incredibly talented and a nice guy on top of all that! He's only opening the show and then leaving to do Mame at the Kennedy Center. Don't miss him!

Super cute too!

Updated On: 2/3/06 at 05:29 PM

[Ourtime992]

Posted: 2/3/06 at 5:41pm

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

[Chicago74]

Posted: 2/3/06 at 6:29pm

OK, Michael Buchanan is SUPER CUTE! If he sings as good as he looks, I'll be seeing Urinetown MANY times! I can't wait!

[ChicagoPLAYer]

Posted: 2/13/06 at 9:56am

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
[phone]
or ticketmaster [phone].

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

[brdlwyr]

Posted: 2/13/06 at 10:06am

When I first saw this post I thought it was a joke, but the Mercury makes a lot of sense. Nice space in a great area!

[Chicago74]

Posted: 2/13/06 at 10:14am

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.

[Jon]

Posted: 2/13/06 at 11:52am

It's a small proscenium theatre - an old moviehouse. There are no bad seats.

[Chicago74]

Posted: 2/13/06 at 5:24pm

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

[The Distinctive Baritone]

Posted: 2/13/06 at 7:25pm

To touch on what someone had mentioned earlier--

I think Porchlight Music Theatre has a hand in producing the show, but it's not a "Porchlight show." It's not even mentioned on their website, and I think that a newly formed group called Blue Dog is the main producer.

[Chicago74]

Posted: 2/14/06 at 10:36am

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.

[children&art]

Posted: 2/14/06 at 2:20pm

im a man, i like to stand up rather than sit down when i go to urinetown.

seriously though, can someone explain the whole "sit down" as opposed to a tour situation? like for instance there is a wicked "sit down" in chicago but it toured l.a. and other places. how come chicago gets to sitters, why dont places like dallas have them?

[Fosse76]

Posted: 2/14/06 at 2:49pm

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).

[Chicago74]

Posted: 2/14/06 at 3:38pm

Great explanation Fosse!

However, as most actors in Chicago know, VERY FEW actors in WICKED are cast from Chicago. Most of the cast is cast out of New York. Currently the only "Chicago" actors in the show are Nessa and Mme. Morrible, as they are "names" in Chicago Theatre.

[Fosse76]

Posted: 2/14/06 at 4:48pm

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

[Ucrazy]

Posted: 3/25/06 at 2:55pm

Urinetown Chicago has a MYSPACE account... click the link below to join it....


Click here to join Urinetown Chicago on MYSPACE Updated On: 3/25/06 at 02:55 PM

[HatBoy]

Posted: 7/13/06 at 7:35pm

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..)

[The Distinctive Baritone]

Posted: 7/13/06 at 8:26pm

At the end of "Look to the Sky," on the last note, the guy who played Bobby went "Ah-ahh-ahhhhh" (like Elphaba in "Defying Gravity,") holding up a broom with the lights going green around him. During the performance I attended, maybe ten percent of the audience got it (which may illustrate why the show closed so quickly).

[teddyp2]

Posted: 7/13/06 at 9:10pm

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

[The Distinctive Baritone]

Posted: 7/13/06 at 9:23pm

Yeah, that must have been it

Actually, I auditioned to be a replacement, but they closed like, three weeks later. Evidently they hadn't noticed all those empty seats.