Arts Daily / Urinetown

Urinetown

Book and Lyrics by Greg Kotis
Music and Lyrics by Mark Hollman

Directed by Dewey Scott-Wiley

Urinetown is a hilarious and resonating tale of greed, corruption, love, and revolution in a time when water is worth its weight in gold. It is a social and political satire set in a fictional future where a terrible 20-year drought has crippled the city’s water supplies. Water is so scarce that the government enforces a ban on all private toilets in an effort to control water consumption. Citizens who try to circumvent the peeing-fee by relieving themselves in the bushes risk being taken away to “Urinetown,” a mysterious place where many have been sent, but no one ever returns…

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