Urinetown's Annie send-up

[JakeB]

Urinetown's Annie send-up#0

Posted: 9/13/04 at 5:49pm

Is it me or is We'd Like To Thank You from Annie (just got in from seeing it on tour) directly sent up in Urinetown? It's IDENTICAL to one of the scenes, I wondered if it was a purpose done parody. I know there must be hundreds of hidden references.. anyone know any good ones?

[LittleFish8386]

re: Urinetown's Annie send-up#1

Posted: 9/13/04 at 5:51pm

How so? I've never actually seen Annie...

[Rose_MacShane]

re: Urinetown's Annie send-up#2

Posted: 9/13/04 at 5:54pm

I'm drawing a blank...is the scene in question "Mr. Cladwell"? Because I can't remember "We'd Like To Thank You" (it's been a long time since I saw the tour) but it seems logical that that's whay they're sending up. And if indeed they did that, I'm pretty sure it was intentional. "Urinetown" spoofs a lot of shows; the one that first comes to mind is "Les Mis."

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[Mister Matt]

re: Urinetown's Annie send-up#3

Posted: 9/13/04 at 6:00pm

I don't remember anything resembling Annie. I do remember nods to Les Mis, Evita, Starlight Express, Guys and Dolls, Threepenny Opera, Fiddler on the Roof, The Music Man, West Side Story and Cradle Will Rock.

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[JakeB]

re: Urinetown's Annie send-up#4

Posted: 9/13/04 at 6:07pm

It's too late here for my brain to function properly (or fetch the Urinetown script), I'll try and root it out for another time.

[magruder]

re: Urinetown's Annie send-up#5

Posted: 9/13/04 at 6:08pm

I think he means that the vamp and opening melody of "Don't Be the Bunny" ("A little bunny in the meadow...") sound a little like "We'd Like to Thank You, Herbert Hoover" ("Today we're living in a shanty...").

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[JakeB]

re: Urinetown's Annie send-up#6

Posted: 9/13/04 at 6:13pm

Yes, that's it. Thanks magruder.

[BlueWizard]

re: Urinetown's Annie send-up#7

Posted: 9/15/04 at 2:13am

I know there must be hundreds of hidden references.. anyone know any good ones?

Oh my, there are so many. It's been awhile since I saw the show, so off the top of my head:

- West Side Story (famous snap-&-jump choreography appears somewhere)
- Chicago (there's an All That Jazz moment when the cast freezes in a Fosse-like pose)
- Evita (when Pennywise randomly raises up her hands, Eva Peron-style)
- Les Miz (the end of act one)
- Fiddler on the Roof (the curtain call)
- The Lion King (the makeshift fabric river)

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[Musetta1957]

re: Urinetown's Annie send-up#8

Posted: 9/15/04 at 2:26am

"(famous snap-&-jump choreography appears somewhere)"

It's during "Snuff that Girl."