Urinetown Prequel

[FOAnatic]

Posted: 3/7/05 at 3:06pm

According to a Playbill.com article:

"Tony Award winners Greg Kotis and Mark Hollmann, who penned the book and score for the recently closed Urinetown, will likely workshop the prequel to that musical at this summer's Eugene O'Neill Music Theatre Conference, Variety reported."

A prequel? Urinetown was a great musical but wouldn't that make it necessary to have seen Urinetown in order to understand the prequel?...and then the planned sequel? I don't know exactly how I feel about this. The link to the article is below.
Urinetown Prequel Playbill Article

[FranklinShepard-Inc.]

Posted: 3/7/05 at 3:09pm

Sounds like, they try to get a couple of bucks out of it, now it succeeded. Annie and Bye Bye Birdie should warn them!

[BlueWizard]

Posted: 3/7/05 at 3:23pm

Isn't Mark Hollman supposed to be working on the musicalization of SOAPDISH? Maybe he should divert his time and energy to that project instead. I don't see how a prequel to URINETOWN will work -- it might taint the genius of the original.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 3/7/05 at 3:50pm

I know I personally can never get enough Nunsenses.

[MargoChanning]

Posted: 3/7/05 at 3:59pm

I remember them talking about the whole prequel/sequel idea a couple of years back, early in the URINETOWN run.

While I don't doubt that a Urinetown prequel could be very funny and entertaining, they're very talented guys and personally I'd prefer to see them write something non-Urinetown-related.

[Craig]

Posted: 3/7/05 at 4:20pm

Other than Finn's Trilogy, has there been any musical sequel that's been successful?

[FranklinShepard-Inc.]

Posted: 3/7/05 at 5:23pm

Exactly.

Posted: 3/7/05 at 5:26pm

I agree with Namo...I love me some Nuns.

[Jon]

Posted: 3/7/05 at 6:13pm

Would the prequel be called THE STINK YEARS?

[commasplice]

Posted: 3/7/05 at 8:10pm

WOOHOO!!

For a while, I was thinking that this just wasn't going to happen, but now that it's back again, I'm very happy.

I've always wondered what they would do for the sequel (er, third part). If the prequel isn't about the Stink Years, I don't know what it would be...

[boatsintheghetto]

Posted: 3/7/05 at 8:43pm

i spose i could see a prequel...i mean as long as its good, but a sequal? everyone dies at the end...unless, of course, they do a happy musical this time~ haha as little sally says. but id check it out

[magruder]

Posted: 3/7/05 at 9:01pm

From what I know of the Urinetown prequel at least from an early state, it only has a tangential relationship to some of the themes in Urinetown. It's really it's own creation. Give those boys some credit: it's not going to be a conventional prequel in almost any sense.

In additional to Mark Hollmann working on Soapdish with Robert Harling, Hollmann and Greg Kotis are also working with Austin Pendleton on an adaptation of the Alec Guiness movie, The Man in the White Suit. Hollmann also has a project with David Lindsay-Abaire, a musical version of My Man Godfrey, and he's also working on Wild Goat with Jack Helbig. So, Hollmann also has many non-Urinetown related projects in the works right now.

[Corine2]

Posted: 3/7/05 at 9:53pm

What will they call it?
Number 2 Town or Poo Poo Town? I loved Urinetown. It was peefect. Updated On: 3/7/05 at 09:53 PM

[magruder]

Posted: 3/7/05 at 9:57pm

Nothing that puerile.

[Corine2]

Posted: 3/7/05 at 10:00pm

Well Magruder,
I love Number 2 Town. It makes me laugh.

[magruder]

Posted: 3/7/05 at 10:02pm

Good. Knock yourself out.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 3/7/05 at 10:53pm

Need some wood? Heh heh heh.

[leefowler]

Posted: 3/8/05 at 8:26pm

Here's what Mike Nichols said about musical comedy sequels: Because musicals are essentially about the most important event in a person's life, a sequel doesn't make sense, since you can't have TWO most important events in a person's life.