Urinetown - Appreciation- Page 2

[.LittleWing. 0224]

Posted: 10/13/05 at 9:50pm

thanks!

[EugLoven]

Posted: 10/14/05 at 4:28pm

Thanks for all the positive response, you guys!
Yes, I'm realizing now after reading all these comments just how wonderful of a show it is.

Specifically, I really really REALLY love songs with fast lyrics and repetative beats and rounds. So of course I fell in love with this show after listening to "The Cop Song." That always keeps my blood flowing.

I'm kicking myself for a memory I have 2 years ago. I was a freshman and had just arrived to college. The current show at A.C.T. in San Francisco was "Urinetown" and I was so turned-off by the name and didn't understand what I was looking at when I saw the advertisement in the subway station -- I seriously thought it was something like modern-art or a political statement with graffiti on it! I didn't KNOW it was a REAL SHOW advertisement...

Until about 3 months later when the show had come and gone and I had discovered the OBC Recording... and DIED! I was soooo angry at myself for not looking into it when it was in town!

Oh well, I still adore it!

[pennywise-poundfoolish]

Posted: 10/14/05 at 4:36pm

There was a recording made recently of a Prequel to Urinetown. I also hear there will be a Sequel.

[EugLoven]

Posted: 10/14/05 at 4:39pm

I've also heard rumor of this. I wonder if it's true and if they were become full-fledged stage shows or just concept albums.

[pennywise-poundfoolish]

Posted: 10/14/05 at 5:04pm

A friend who was in the show from the beginning of the off-bway run through the entire b'way run was a part of the recent recording. It's not a rumor, it's absolutely true.

[MarkCohen]

Posted: 10/14/05 at 6:53pm

I feel obligated to post in every Urinetown thread. Can't praise it enough.

[sabrelady]

Posted: 10/14/05 at 7:11pm

Is Nancy Opel your friend? I thought she was the only cast member to survive all the incarnations?

[Smaxie]

Posted: 10/21/05 at 4:27pm

Some details about the Urinetown "prequel," which had a reading today in NYC. Surprise!

Yeast Nation!

Updated On: 10/21/05 at 04:27 PM

[lildogs]

Posted: 10/21/05 at 4:32pm

This sounds fun...

I thought Spencer Kayden had been the one who had been with the show the whole time...but I guess not...

[AuditioningWaitress]

Posted: 10/21/05 at 4:50pm

I've very excited about this!

[Necromancer07707]

Posted: 10/21/05 at 8:16pm

How would any of Lockstock's songs work as audition material?

[broadwaystar2b]

Posted: 10/21/05 at 8:54pm

Spencer Kayden was the only cast member to have been in the Fringe, offBway and Broadway productions of Urinetown

Updated On: 10/21/05 at 08:54 PM

[bythesword84]

Posted: 10/21/05 at 9:11pm

Yes, Spencer was the only one in it from the Fringe but other cast members held over from Off Broadway to Broadway. pennywise-poundfoolish didn't mention being in the Fringe.

[broadwaystar2b]

Posted: 10/21/05 at 9:16pm

You're right bythesword, I believe that everyone from the off Broadway company went to Broadway except Megan Lawrence because she was going to have her baby.

[BroadwayBaby315]

Posted: 10/21/05 at 9:37pm

The first exposure I had to this show was their performance at the Tonys where I concluded from the little time that the cast was on stage, this was truly the season's best musical. An amazing cast... Foster, Opel, Kayden, Thompson... paired with a hilarious book and lyrics makes for an awesome cast recording that always has a place on my ipod.
Favorite song- Act 1 Finale... ahhh so gooooood!

[BwayFan4]

Posted: 10/21/05 at 11:43pm

I absolutely loved this show.I saw Carolee the goddess in it and fell in love. I also loved amy Spanger.Laughed like a hyena the whole show.This was two years ago and i still talk about it.

[Wanna Be A Foster]

Posted: 10/22/05 at 12:25pm

I adore this show to the ends of the earth! Urinetown is a beautiful piece of work and whenever I need to smile, I just pop in my Urinetown CD and all is good in the world. Hunter Foster should have won Best Leading Actor in a Musical that year easily, and Jeff McCarthy should have won Best Featured Actor in a Musical -- and neither were even nominated! Grr. "It's no way to live, I tells ya, no way to live!"

Updated On: 10/22/05 at 12:25 PM