Theatre Arts: Urinetown, February 2020

Urinetown

 will be performed at Price Lab Theatre on

Wednesday, February 19, 2020, at 7:00 p.m.

Thursday, February 20, 2020, at 7:00 p.m.

Friday, February 21, 2020, at 7:00 p.m.

Saturday, February 22, 2020, at 7:00 p.m.

Sunday, February 23, 2020, at 2:30 p.m.

Urinetown started off-off-Broadway, but moved to Broadway, where it opened on 20 September 2001 and ran until January 2004 (965 performances).  The book is by Greg Kotis, the music by Mark Hollman; they collaborated on the lyrics.

You can hear the Urinetown Broadway cast recording on Naxos by clicking on this link.

If you want to read the Urinetown script, it’s on the upper level of Lewis Library, call number ML 50 .H746 U75 2003.   The Vocal Selections are also upstairs (call number M 1508 .H646 U7 2004).

Urinetown is covered in the following books on the upper level:

• Dietz, Dan.  The Complete Book of 200s Broadway Musicals (ML 1711.8 .N3 D535 2017, pp. 69-70)
• Mordden, Ethan.  The Happiest Corpse I’ve Ever Seen (ML1711 .M734 2004, pp. 183-185)
• Singer, Barry.  Ever After:  The Last Years of Musical Theater and Beyond (ML 1711.5 .S566 2004, pp. 227-237)

See also the e-book Broadway Yearbook 2001-2002.

You’ll find articles in the “International Bibliography of Theater & Dance” database, including;

• Kotis, Greg.  “‘Urinetown’ Confidential:  The Untold Story.”   American Theater 202. (Feb. 2003) 18-27.
• Milkovich, Erica.  “Urinetown, September 11, and the Carnivalesque.”  Baylor Journal of Theatre and Performance 3.1 (Spring 2006) 11-25.
• “Urinetown:  The Musical – Unique Delights and Sobering Truths.”  Phi Kappa Phi Forum 88.2 (Summer 2008) 30-31.
• Beggs, Anne.  ““For Urinetown Is Your Town…”:  The Fringes of Broadway.”  Theatre Journal 62.1 (2010) 41-56.