Urinetown Addiction

[Thenardier]

Urinetown Addiction#0

Posted: 6/18/05 at 1:34pm

I love this show in its dark yet comical way!

Discuss.

Mama Korey

The Beauty Is: Kelli O'Hara Online

[CapnHook]

re: Urinetown Addiction#1

Posted: 6/18/05 at 1:38pm

UNCG is doing it next year.

One of my favorite shows. They need to do another tour - but this time COME to a city in NC!!

"The Spectacle has, indeed, an emotional attraction of its own, but, of all the parts, it is the least artistic, and connected least with the art of poetry. For the power of Tragedy, we may be sure, is felt even apart from representation and actors. Besides, the production of spectacular effects depends more on the art of the stage machinist than on that of the poet."
--Aristotle

[Thenardier]

re: Urinetown Addiction#2

Posted: 6/18/05 at 1:40pm

come to a city in NY....

Mama Korey

The Beauty Is: Kelli O'Hara Online

[KChenowethfan]

re: Urinetown Addiction#3

Posted: 6/18/05 at 1:44pm

This is my favorite show ever. So witty and clever. Even with the disaster of a Bobby that I saw, during my first visit, the plot and other cast members overcame his deficiencies.

"Why do you care what people might say? Why try to fit into their design?" (Side Show)

[sabrelady]

re: Urinetown Addiction#4

Posted: 6/18/05 at 1:45pm

One of my favs. Saw it 3 x in N.Y. 5 x in TO. Deservedly won Tonys for Book & score. shoulda won for best musical too!!

[whiskedaway]

re: Urinetown Addiction#5

Posted: 6/18/05 at 1:46pm

I remember before I came to this board, I would always see ads for it in the paper when it was coming to Los Angeles, and I just thought "urinetown? what is this urinetown?" and it always had the quotes from the critics saying how good it is, so I decided to give it a shot. and it was soooooooooooooo good, I absolutely loved it. I bought a shirt and the CD, lol. I too really wish they would do another tour. maybe someday.

[gavrochegirl]

re: Urinetown Addiction#6

Posted: 6/18/05 at 1:48pm

I need to buy the CD...I just have a clip of Cop Song on my Real Player!

What the puck?!

[noahrp3]

re: Urinetown Addiction#7

Posted: 6/18/05 at 1:50pm

gavroche! you must get this cd! its amazing! you will be addicted after a couple listens.

[Thenardier]

re: Urinetown Addiction#8

Posted: 6/18/05 at 1:52pm

I remember the commercial here in NY and the lady walked out and said, "I'm gonna tell all my friends and they will come."

I wonder if that was the same lady on the "Who are you rooting for?" video on bway.com.

Mama Korey

The Beauty Is: Kelli O'Hara Online

[chinkie azn jai]

re: Urinetown Addiction#9

Posted: 6/18/05 at 2:06pm

I've become re-obsessed with Urinetown since last night .

"Chicago is it's own incredible theater town right there smack down in the middle of the heartland. What a great city! I can see why Oprah likes to live there!" - Dee Hoty :-D

[Thenardier]

re: Urinetown Addiction#10

Posted: 6/18/05 at 2:07pm

^ Exactly.

Mama Korey

The Beauty Is: Kelli O'Hara Online

[musicnmath]

re: Urinetown Addiction#11

Posted: 6/18/05 at 2:07pm

what am I missing about this show? I have seen tons of shows and can find *something* to love (if at least the lighting or costumes) in every one. Except this one. I saw it on tour and just thought it was really bad. I'd already loved the clips of Hunter singing Run, Freedom, Run....so that was good...but the rest fell flat. I was sad. I so wanted to love it.

[Elphaba]

re: Urinetown Addiction#12

Posted: 6/18/05 at 2:10pm

Don't be the Bunny, Don't be the stew.

I had a blast when I saw this, fun music, fun cast........

It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story... AGATHA CHRISTIE, Life magazine, May 14, 1956

[BlueWizard]

re: Urinetown Addiction#13

Posted: 6/18/05 at 2:11pm

Did you get all the allusions to other musicals (EVITA, WEST SIDE STORY, CHICAGO, LES MIZ, FIDDLER, GUYS & DOLLS, etc.)? Half the fun was catching all those. And it's a very, very clever sendup of the kind of social-political theatre of the 1930s-40s as well as Brechtian Epic theatre.

BlueWizard's blog: The Rambling Corner HEDWIG: "The road is my home. In reflecting upon the people whom I have come upon in my travels, I cannot help but think of the people who have come upon me."

Updated On: 6/18/05 at 02:11 PM

[Up In Lost]

re: Urinetown Addiction#14

Posted: 6/18/05 at 2:14pm

You know that Greg Kotis and Mark Hollemann have their first show since Urinetown playing next week? It's called The Man in the White Suit. There's an article or two on Playbill.com. Lol. I'm going up there on the 26th.

Well, I'm glad he got away with it.

[sabrelady]

re: Urinetown Addiction#15

Posted: 6/18/05 at 2:16pm

I've said it b4 -Gotta love a show whose tag line is "Hail Malthus!" LMAO

[Broadway_freak]

re: Urinetown Addiction#16

Posted: 6/18/05 at 2:16pm

I can't wait to see this show, iy's having it's premiere regional debut in SAgatuck MI this fall. I love "It's a privilege to pee".

[MarkCohen]

re: Urinetown Addiction#17

Posted: 6/18/05 at 2:25pm

Urinetown is in my Top three all time favourite shows. I was actually thinking about starting a thread about it.

I knew nothing about it when I saw it 3rd row at CanStage last summer and was ABSOLUTELY BLOWN AWAY. I think that show was the hardest I've ever laughed, or close to it. All the actors were fantastic, and the music was so unique with really clever lyrics. I can't stand the fact that so many people blow it off because of it's title. I really wish it would play in Ontario again. I would see it in a second. I really wish it was still open in NYC too, even though I probably wouldn't be able to get there.

[Up In Lost]

re: Urinetown Addiction#18

Posted: 6/18/05 at 2:25pm

http://www.playbill.com/news/article/93538.html


That;[s the URL to a little bulurd about The Man in the White Suit.

Well, I'm glad he got away with it.

[Thenardier]

re: Urinetown Addiction#19

Posted: 6/18/05 at 2:29pm

Yes, I love "Hail MAlthus"

so clever and hidden.

Mama Korey

The Beauty Is: Kelli O'Hara Online

[freeadmission]

re: town Addiction#20

Posted: 6/18/05 at 3:28pm

I'm sorry, but I have to do this. It's unavoidable.

"I DIDN'T EITHER!!!!"

and

"Oh, dear GOD! Bobby, NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!"

*giggle* Whenever I listen to the OCR and those two lines come up, I drop whatever I'm doing and say them with her.

I. Love. This. Show.

artistic dominion

[Thenardier]

re: town Addiction#21

Posted: 6/18/05 at 3:34pm

i love Dont Be THe Bunny - even have the magnet!

Mama Korey

The Beauty Is: Kelli O'Hara Online

[Enjolras77]

re: Urinetown Addiction#22

Posted: 6/18/05 at 3:41pm

I love this show too, so clever. I also was afraid of what it would be like the first time I saw the title. I saw them perform live at the Tonys (I was there) and then immediately got tickets and saw it a few days later. Now for a shameless plug....if there is anyone in NC who wants to hear some of Urinetown...I will be performing "Run, Freedom, Run" (along with other songs) at a benefit concert tonight (at for a theatre just north of Charlotte. E-mail me if you want details.
Old Courthouse Theatre

"You pile up enough tomorrows, and you'll find you are left with nothing but a lot of empty yesterdays. I don't know about you, but I'd like to make today worth remembering." --Harold Hill from The Music Man

[sabrelady]

re: Urinetown Addiction#23

Posted: 6/18/05 at 5:19pm

If that is U in the icon- I wish I was in Dixie!!
Updated On: 6/18/05 at 05:19 PM

[LiTtLeDaNcEr729]

re: Urinetown Addiction#24

Posted: 6/18/05 at 5:29pm

My entire family is obsessed with Urinetown. Its fabulous. I saw it 4 times on Broadway. The second time I saw it with my family- we threw stuffed rabbits onstage after curtain call with little notes tied around their necks. It basically said that we thought they should collect stuffed animals (specifically rabbits) and donate them to the Today show for their little Christmas drive thing- and then PERFORM on the Today show...because they never did. Haha (I have an almost 8 hour video of clips of shows performing from the today show and such). They seemed to like the bunnies- haha- and they know us as the bunny family now.

Anyhoo- they are doing it at the professional dinner theatre in my town, so I'm going to audition and hope for the best!