Actually I think that was precisely the point of the "in joke" that Lockstock makes. Real theatregoers get the joke, no one else does and just laughs because it is a funny line anyway.
I love how the camera quality for this bootleg in particular isn't even just bad, but bad in a very unique way that makes the actors look like demon gremlin people who are terrifying to look at. Charming.
@@adaysnotice299 Hey bud, were you alive when sarcasm and jokes were invented? You should be, cause not only can I feel your boomerness through the screen, I can also hear your pacemaker failing too.
Dear God....Hunter Foster....The ending of Follow Your Heart has always been a favorite of mine. Hearing that harmony on "laughter and gladness" done live has made my day.
I worked there and got to see hundreds of performances by this incredible cast. One of the best experiences of my life hands down. This show is brilliant in so many ways and I really wish a revival would come back to Broadway. I’d be so happy to bring my son. I can tell you guys so many fun stories about my time there.
Fun fact: the actor who plays Bobby Strong is married to the actress who plays Little Becky Two Shoes in this production. If you look at the playbill in the playbill vault, their bios dedicate their performance to each other.
SPOILER ALERT! My favorite moment in the show is when Bobby removes Becky's brace and lifts it up in rapture like a preacher at a revival meeting. Becky takes one step and crumples to the ground (like reality lol). Bobby never looks at her, he just keeps grinning!
They would be Hunter Foster and Jennifer Cody, respectively. Hunter's sister Sutton could have appeared in the cast as Hope Cladwell at some point during its run.
This is great! I saw this production before it moved to Broadway. One of best theater experience I've had. No one knew what to expect and the show delivered so much energy and creativity. And ALL seats were $25 for the entire run!
Oh my God, I think I saw this performance! A mere DAYS before September 11th. Haven't seen it since until now. Knowing what was about to happen to NYC, it's bringing back a lot of emotions....Such an awful time, but an incredible, albeit dark show.
Imo the whole second act from Snuff That Girl onward is a masterclass in how act two musical numbers should be written. Every number just keeps upping the emotional ante up to We're Not Sorry.
Fantastic production and musical. How has there not been a revival or even an Encores production?! This show is still performed regularly around the world and is arguably more relevant today than it was in 2001.
Im so glad to find this! After just being cast as Hope in my local production of Urinetown with little knowledge of the show as a whole, I am very glad to be able to watch this to get an idea of her character and personality. This is very helpful!
Thank you for posting this - I loved revisiting this show!!! This was the first Broadway musical I ever saw. By the date, this was a performance from early previews - I saw it in late 2002, over a year later. It's really fascinating to think back and compare what they tweaked and changed. One particular favourite moment of mine from the performance I saw: at 39:30, after "Follow Your Heart", Laura and Hunter stood staring off into the middle distance as the audience applauded, then *kept* staring like that after the applause had died down, until the audience caught on and laughed. Not only was it hilariously awkward, it was a nice way to "call out" the theatrical convention of waiting until an audience is done clapping after a musical number, in keeping with the show's self-awareness about theatrical tropes :)
I just played Little Becky in my high school's production of Urinetown, and I also got to meet and work with Megan Lawrence (the original little becky) since she graduated from my high school. It was awesome :D Snuff that Girl is definitely the shit
I believe that Megan Lawrence played the role fringe, off-broadway (and later on broadway). I'm pretty sure that she was preggers during the off-broadway run (which is why Little Becky's character is pregnant). The opening of Urinetown was probably during her first maternity leave (son August, born in August, and Urinetown's opening was delayed by 9/11...)
Saw this on B´way...Recognized all the actors. Saw this with comic Rick Crom, who I used to see at the Comedy Cellar back in the 80s. This has to be one of the best shows EVER! Yet it had such a short run. I couldn´t understand this. It was so incredibly funny, you couldn't hear half the dialogue! I loved it so much...and I still listen to the soundtrack!!! Thanks for posting the show!
Saw this live on Broadway - there's no substitute for being in the audience. The show really was that good. Quick trivia: the actor who plays Bobby's father was the original Toby in Sweeney Todd.
Just finished our last performances of our high school production of this play. We began working on it two years ago before Covid and finally were able to revive it this year before my graduating! It was such a fun experience playing Cladwell, and was so successful. Thank you, Urinetown…never thought I’d become so bonded to a play with that name. I’ll certainly remember it forever.
Adam Clark at 1:49:53 the rebel poor shoot two rich employees. And in the changed version they leave for Rio and survive to the end. That’s just one thing I noticed
Oh my gosh....this is the Broadway production?! I didn't know that until I decided to check this video out and once I clicked it, I read the description and indeed....I was overjoyed! :D THANK YOU for posting this! I've been waiting to see this since the first time I watched a school production do this. This musical is just too incredible not to be known!
Fun fact: Hunter Foster (who plays bobby) is the brother of two-time tony award winning actress Sutton Foster, who won a Tony and performed at the tony awards the same year urinetown did.
My scariest moment in the theater was in "Cop Song" during the Broadway production. The lights went down and the audience started to applaud. Then the flashlights went on and began to search in the audience. And that's when I thought: "This is what it's like in a police state."
I had done this in my high school in Hackensack. I miss doing it looking at this. I had such great memories with my fellow cast members and crew members, not to mention my heads.
We have auditions for this show next month at my college. I’m looking at going for the roles of either Bobby Strong or Officer Lockstock. Wish me luck, y’all
Nick Lopez it depends on the audition process, but Bobby and Lockstock both have to have an actor with great comedic timing! If they give you lines to read, think of creative funny gestures to do while doing so, and same goes with the song you choose to sing! Also, once you’re in the show, no matter who you end up playing, make your character big and just have so much fun with it. It’s probably one of the most out there shows in existence, so make sure you match up to that!!
@@azfilms818 Neither. All of the theater kids who couldn’t sing for shit got casted and everyone else, myself included, had to work the stage crew. Pissed me off completely
I always thought, could there have been an earlier attempt at a revival/concert of Parade, that he would make for a GREAT Hugh Dorsey(or even Tom Watson), especially after the original OBC Dorsey Herndon Lackey! Maybe still, even a just as great Warden in Kiss of the Spiderwoman, too!
I'm not sure but my theory is that that's the conductor and they sort of take him to his position like he also has to do what they say like the rest of the cast
Thanks for posting this! Do you by any chance have or know someone who has the full show for GREASE 1994 when Michelle Blakley was still playing Patty or even with Carrie Ellen Austin? Or the 1996 tour full show? Sorry I have been looking for this version of the show for months and still nothing.
This may be a really dumb, really obvious question, but I've always wondered: how can the toilets be public if they're controlled by the private company UGC? My confusion stems from the fact that my high school teacher commented that URINETOWN was a satire about capitalist greed, but then my college professor said that URINETOWN was a satire about government/bureaucratic mismanagement.... Umm?
+Amelia Doubleyou The toilets are public as in all people have to use them. No one can own their own toilet, a private toilet. All of the toilets are owed and controlled by a private company to be used by the public. UGC is a company that has a monopoly on public toilets. Since there are laws against private toilets are people peeing freely anywhere they want, the people have to use UGC's public toilets. Even though UGC is a company and not a government funded thing. UGC could be called more of a megacorporation since it has a monopoly on a certain thing and has the police to back them up and can kill people, thus making UGC above the law. There are differences between company and corporation, but I won't go into that right now. But my own comments on the satire/ideas of it: I don't really think it is really capitalist greed, since the people really needed to have a smaller amount of people used toilets/wasting water. At the end they same that Bobby's idea of free peeing is bad and many people die of dehydration. Of course I would not fully condone the UGC's actions, the killing and all, ya know. And they do exploit the poor and there is capitalist greed. But I think it is more of a satire of gov mismanagement on the government that allowed the UGC and Bobby's people. Since neither of the corporations/companies were in control of the government. But the government almost actively participated with the public toilets since there were laws forcing people to use UGC's toilets. Also I would say it is satire of a public uprising/revolution and the people's resulting government. Maybe I would even say it is a satire of socialist government. Since most socialist government's don't have enough supplies to met the needs of the people and then people die because of it. But the socialist gov part of my ideas are if we pretend that both of the companies were really the government, or symbolism of govrnment. I wouldn't say it is that far of a stretch since we don't see any government officials besides the police, and they're on the side of the UGC. It is all really murky around UGC vs gov and on which is which. Is UGC the governemnt? No, it is a company, Urine Good Company with a president and all of their own hierarchy. But UGC can get the police to do their bidding and have laws made in their favor. UGC even has a politician in their pocket, the character of Senator Flipp! Also the UGC punishes the people who break toilet based laws, or laws that are not in UGC's favor. I hope this helped clearing things up, even though I got on a tangent about the meaning of the musical and didn't really talk that much on private vs public things.
Jehan Prouvaire This is so informative; thank you! I definitely agree with your points, and they only confirm what makes *Urinetown* such a good musical - there's depth to it. I love musicals that actually make people think. And let's face it; the ironic ending is one of the greatest musical endings *ever*.
+Amelia Doubleyou they did Urinetown for my high school's musical this year I planed to try out but I didn't know anything about it so I passed it up. I watched the first act at school and loved it the following week I took my family and we loved it
I don't really think it's either. It's more of a satire on narratives (musicals, mainly) about economic inequality, capitalist greed, and bureaucracy. It's mocking musicals like Les Miserables that make heroic underdog stories out of over-simplified political situations. It simultaneously satirizes corporate hypocrisy/greed and acknowledges the elephant in the room: these idealistic concepts of freedom and total equality that we see on stage are ineffective. You overthrow the bad guy and then what? The societal needs they satisfied just disappear? This isn't making much sense but anyway, I think it's making fun of stories about the subject matter more so than mocking the subject matter itself.
Pertaining to some of the posted comments about toilets being public or private, intellectual property like a Broadway musical is private too... owned by people whose livelihood depends on earning an income from audiences who pay to see it... until somebody decides to illegally record a performance and make the private IP public property. They should make a musical about Broadway buffs who love musicals so much they egregiously and willfully violate the property rights of the authors and composers and producers who create the content the violators love. Here’s the perfect name for that musical satire: Oxymoron.
Oh fuck you. Get off your high horse. First off, how the fuck does making a video of a show make it public property? Recording a show doesnt make it okay for the public to use (what public property means). To put on a production you still have to pay the owner to do so. And bootlegs of productions are still illegal. Second, you realise the main reason people keep illegally recording musicals is because the people who own them dont record it themselves? If more owners of musicals recorded videos of their musical, there would probably be less illegally recorded ones. And recording these bootlegs doesnt take money from the maker's pockets, if anything it might increase it. Someone might see a bootleg of a musical they've never heard of and become a fan and then see the show. I've watched actually legally made videos of musicals (thanks germany!) and became huge fans of them. I actually bought a licensed DVD of a professionally shot musical, so the owners of that musical profited from just me doing that not to mention if I ever see the show live. If given the chance to see that musical live, or any other musical I became a fan of from watching their pro-shot, I would do so in a heart beat. Any musical fan can tell you that when given the choice of a bootleg and actually seeing the show, they take the show. And some bootlegs of shows are from shows that have closed or flopped horribly. I am the biggest fan of Lestat the musical after I watched some bootlegs of it, but it flopped so bad Elton john never even released the cast recording, I know it exists they recorded it a week before the show closed. The only way to listen or watch the show currently is via bootlegs. And if Elton John ever released that cast recording I would buy the physical CD of it the day it came out.
1:56:42 - "But I'm also the narrator, so no one can touch me." Obviously Officer Lockstock has never seen Into the Woods.
DavidSSabb ...LMAO!!! Yes!
Actually I think that was precisely the point of the "in joke" that Lockstock makes. Real theatregoers get the joke, no one else does and just laughs because it is a funny line anyway.
that's why into the woods goes for so long, because there's no narrator
True
I’ve played Lockstock and now playing the Narrator/Mysterious Man track in a production of Into the Woods. I get to eat my words now. 😂
I love how the camera quality for this bootleg in particular isn't even just bad, but bad in a very unique way that makes the actors look like demon gremlin people who are terrifying to look at. Charming.
You probably weren’t alive when this was recorded... GoPros didn’t exist back then... this person risked jail time to record this... don’t be a bitch.
**A Day’s Notice ** why are you so angry ): its ok if you’re having a bad day
@@adaysnotice299 it was just a joke
@@adaysnotice299 ok boomer
@@adaysnotice299 Hey bud, were you alive when sarcasm and jokes were invented? You should be, cause not only can I feel your boomerness through the screen, I can also hear your pacemaker failing too.
Dear God....Hunter Foster....The ending of Follow Your Heart has always been a favorite of mine. Hearing that harmony on "laughter and gladness" done live has made my day.
I worked there and got to see hundreds of performances by this incredible cast. One of the best experiences of my life hands down. This show is brilliant in so many ways and I really wish a revival would come back to Broadway. I’d be so happy to bring my son. I can tell you guys so many fun stories about my time there.
You worked for this production?!?! Oh my god. I have so many questions.
Bogus Detonator I’m so happy to answer any question:)))) find me on FB - Steven Robalino
@@RawVegan4L1fe Is email fine? It would be easier since I found like a couple people with the same name. My email is musicalguy842@gmail.com
This show is total genius. Would love to work on a revival of it.
Because it’s Broadway
39:06 has got to be the greatest sound in any musical ever.
Fun fact: the actor who plays Bobby Strong is married to the actress who plays Little Becky Two Shoes in this production. If you look at the playbill in the playbill vault, their bios dedicate their performance to each other.
SPOILER ALERT! My favorite moment in the show is when Bobby removes Becky's brace and lifts it up in rapture like a preacher at a revival meeting. Becky takes one step and crumples to the ground (like reality lol). Bobby never looks at her, he just keeps grinning!
They would be Hunter Foster and Jennifer Cody, respectively. Hunter's sister Sutton could have appeared in the cast as Hope Cladwell at some point during its run.
@@andrewbloom7637wat
@@andrewbloom7637 Sutton was in throughly modern Millie
@@andrewbloom7637 LMAO WHY
This is great! I saw this production before it moved to Broadway. One of best theater experience I've had. No one knew what to expect and the show delivered so much energy and creativity. And ALL seats were $25 for the entire run!
Oh my God, I think I saw this performance! A mere DAYS before September 11th. Haven't seen it since until now. Knowing what was about to happen to NYC, it's bringing back a lot of emotions....Such an awful time, but an incredible, albeit dark show.
Gosh, the crowd is amazing!
thank you for this. I was in the 1st national tour of this and this brings back so many wonderful memories.
The writers of this show really went off with putting two showstoppers (Snuff That Girl and Run Freedom Run) right next to each other, goddamn.
Run Freedom Run is incredibly mid compared to the amazing songs in this musical
Imo the whole second act from Snuff That Girl onward is a masterclass in how act two musical numbers should be written. Every number just keeps upping the emotional ante up to We're Not Sorry.
Fr both back to back is no joke I had this musical in high school
@@Firedog-jk2efYES
Fantastic production and musical. How has there not been a revival or even an Encores production?! This show is still performed regularly around the world and is arguably more relevant today than it was in 2001.
If this show had been opened any other time after 2001, it would be way more popular.
Encores production Spring 2025!!!!!
With all the Broadway shows that have been cancelled the last three months - PLEASE revive this
Im so glad to find this! After just being cast as Hope in my local production of Urinetown with little knowledge of the show as a whole, I am very glad to be able to watch this to get an idea of her character and personality. This is very helpful!
Thank you for posting this - I loved revisiting this show!!!
This was the first Broadway musical I ever saw. By the date, this was a performance from early previews - I saw it in late 2002, over a year later. It's really fascinating to think back and compare what they tweaked and changed.
One particular favourite moment of mine from the performance I saw: at 39:30, after "Follow Your Heart", Laura and Hunter stood staring off into the middle distance as the audience applauded, then *kept* staring like that after the applause had died down, until the audience caught on and laughed. Not only was it hilariously awkward, it was a nice way to "call out" the theatrical convention of waiting until an audience is done clapping after a musical number, in keeping with the show's self-awareness about theatrical tropes :)
I just played Little Becky in my high school's production of Urinetown, and I also got to meet and work with Megan Lawrence (the original little becky) since she graduated from my high school. It was awesome :D Snuff that Girl is definitely the shit
Skyler Betz I could be wrong, but I thought the original little becky was Jennifer Cody.
I believe that Megan Lawrence played the role fringe, off-broadway (and later on broadway). I'm pretty sure that she was preggers during the off-broadway run (which is why Little Becky's character is pregnant). The opening of Urinetown was probably during her first maternity leave (son August, born in August, and Urinetown's opening was delayed by 9/11...)
Saw this on B´way...Recognized all the actors. Saw this with comic Rick Crom, who I used to see at the Comedy Cellar back in the 80s. This has to be one of the best shows EVER! Yet it had such a short run. I couldn´t understand this. It was so incredibly funny, you couldn't hear half the dialogue! I loved it so much...and I still listen to the soundtrack!!! Thanks for posting the show!
I was Fipp in a production of Urinetown with my twin brother as Cladwell. It was some of the most fun I'd ever had on stage
Saw this live on Broadway - there's no substitute for being in the audience. The show really was that good. Quick trivia: the actor who plays Bobby's father was the original Toby in Sweeney Todd.
Just finished our last performances of our high school production of this play. We began working on it two years ago before Covid and finally were able to revive it this year before my graduating! It was such a fun experience playing Cladwell, and was so successful. Thank you, Urinetown…never thought I’d become so bonded to a play with that name. I’ll certainly remember it forever.
fun fact if anybody knows Dear Evan Hansen, Jennifer (Hope) also plays Cynthia Murphy in DEH
WAIT WTF I’m-
I was looking at my playbill and i saw that and i was like “OH”
OMG IS THERE ANYTHING SHE CANT DO
How the Hell was Jeff McCarthy not nominated?
It’s not an easy feat stealing the show in a cast this strong, but that’s exactly what he did
Even better question: why the hell wasn’t Hunter Foster wasn’t nominated for a Tony?
i just got cast as little sally in my local theatres production of this show. i am so excited!!,
I'm Hope in my college's production of Urinetown. So much fun!
Look at the date. Just days before 9/11. So weird.
Kate j I guess Bobby was really serious about them looking at the sky
For the sake of political correctness. They had to change part of the dialogue as a result of 9/11. So this is urinetown in its original form
Adam Clark at 1:49:53 the rebel poor shoot two rich employees. And in the changed version they leave for Rio and survive to the end. That’s just one thing I noticed
ATOMICGUNNER GAMING No just no
@@LibraA380 do you know what part of the dialogue?
THIS IS SO GOOOD! So excited to be in this show in the spring. But just wow, the talent on that stage is unbelievable!! Such an underrated show
i was in a performance of this show as a member of the ugc back in 2013, and i miss it so much! by far the most fun i've ever had on stage.
Oh my gosh....this is the Broadway production?! I didn't know that until I decided to check this video out and once I clicked it, I read the description and indeed....I was overjoyed! :D THANK YOU for posting this! I've been waiting to see this since the first time I watched a school production do this. This musical is just too incredible not to be known!
I'm currently Cladwell in this production and its so much fun seeing other renditions of the show!!
My brothers highschool did this, and the guy who played lockstock was freaking amazing
Fun fact: Hunter Foster (who plays bobby) is the brother of two-time tony award winning actress Sutton Foster, who won a Tony and performed at the tony awards the same year urinetown did.
My scariest moment in the theater was in "Cop Song" during the Broadway production. The lights went down and the audience started to applaud. Then the flashlights went on and began to search in the audience. And that's when I thought: "This is what it's like in a police state."
Seeing this after playing Hot blades Harry and old man strong in a theater company! I loved talking to the writer Greg Kotis amazing experience
Whend you get to speak to Kotis? I'd love to hear what he had to say about the show
I’m playing Lockstock right now in this show and it is just the most glorious thing of all time
Such a good and very original show.
Snuff that girl will always be the shit!
I LOVED playing Hot Blades Harry and singing that! It was SO MUCH FUN!
For 2001, this is pretty great quality.
I had done this in my high school in Hackensack. I miss doing it looking at this. I had such great memories with my fellow cast members and crew members, not to mention my heads.
It's too bad this show debuted so close to 9/11. I think it would play well on Broadway in the Trump era though.
It would. We are doing it in SF in Feb.
@@jonrosen7980 break legs!
William W I just saw a production In 2019 and the guy that played Caldwell dressed like trump and talked like him It was fun😂🤣
@@RobertBurns71405That’s hilarious. 😂 I could just see Trump saying something stupid like “don’t be the bunny” in one of his speeches
Why did this show ever leave Broadway????
K Parrish Ikr. At least it lasted a couple years. This show deserves a revival.
Billy Smith I’m in it right now, (we actually open Friday) but being in a revival of it would be amazing!
K Parrish who are you playing?
Billy Smith I’m playing Road Rage Roxie (it’s the girl version of Robby the Stockfish) but I’m also the understudy for Little Sally
K Parrish how cool. Wish I could see it.
I cant unhear the Seymour Krelborn for Bobby! we stan hunter foster
We have auditions for this show next month at my college. I’m looking at going for the roles of either Bobby Strong or Officer Lockstock. Wish me luck, y’all
Nick Lopez good luck! break a leg! i’m playing pennywise :-)
big and fun guy Any advice about this show?
Nick Lopez it depends on the audition process, but Bobby and Lockstock both have to have an actor with great comedic timing! If they give you lines to read, think of creative funny gestures to do while doing so, and same goes with the song you choose to sing! Also, once you’re in the show, no matter who you end up playing, make your character big and just have so much fun with it. It’s probably one of the most out there shows in existence, so make sure you match up to that!!
Who did you end up getting?
@@azfilms818 Neither. All of the theater kids who couldn’t sing for shit got casted and everyone else, myself included, had to work the stage crew. Pissed me off completely
41:17 my god Jeff McCarthy cracks me up so much
I HAVE FOUND IT!! AT LONG LAST I HAVE FOUND IT! THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!!!!!
This is quite good and charming
Ok, but a revival of this now that BLM is a big thing would really put it through a new lenses. (Not now, now, but after quarantine.)
IT'S BACK!! THANK YOU!!
This was the first musical I was in. I was Soupy Sue and Dr. Billyeu
awesome show!!!! LOVE IT!
I just saw Jeff in a production of Sweeney Todd! He was amazing
I always thought, could there have been an earlier attempt at a revival/concert of Parade, that he would make for a GREAT Hugh Dorsey(or even Tom Watson), especially after the original OBC Dorsey Herndon Lackey!
Maybe still, even a just as great Warden in Kiss of the Spiderwoman, too!
Love this!!!!!!!!!
Just ignore this lol I’m marking some reference points
1: 5:22
3: 48:36
4: 32:13
5: 16:03
6: 1:43:44
H&B: 38:43
H: 1:01:35
the camera quality really makes everyone look like demons lol (esp little sally)
Nancy was up for the Tony for Pennywise. This was the year Thoroughly Modern Millie won everything.
Knock, knock.
Who's there?
Urine Good Company.
Urine Good Company who?
Urine Good Company with people like us.
1:40:10 "Tell Her I Love Her"
does anyone know what happened right before the overture where barrel and lock stock are walking with who looks like old man strong?
I have no idea lol
I'm not sure but my theory is that that's the conductor and they sort of take him to his position like he also has to do what they say like the rest of the cast
@@kazza6078 It is.
THANK YOU SO FREAKING MUCH
THANK YOU OH MY GOODNESS
This is Awesome.
Fun fact: in our production the director knows the original cast member who played barrel
Makes me wonder what Fecestown is
THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU
Thanks for posting this! Do you by any chance have or know someone who has the full show for GREASE 1994 when Michelle Blakley was still playing Patty or even with Carrie Ellen Austin? Or the 1996 tour full show? Sorry I have been looking for this version of the show for months and still nothing.
PennyWise Act 1:
2:22
8:00
43:38
49:55
56:52
Act 2
01:24:06
1:31:39
1:35:25
1:36:27
1:44:05
1:51:32
This may be a really dumb, really obvious question, but I've always wondered: how can the toilets be public if they're controlled by the private company UGC? My confusion stems from the fact that my high school teacher commented that URINETOWN was a satire about capitalist greed, but then my college professor said that URINETOWN was a satire about government/bureaucratic mismanagement.... Umm?
+Amelia Doubleyou The toilets are public as in all people have to use them. No one can own their own toilet, a private toilet. All of the toilets are owed and controlled by a private company to be used by the public. UGC is a company that has a monopoly on public toilets. Since there are laws against private toilets are people peeing freely anywhere they want, the people have to use UGC's public toilets. Even though UGC is a company and not a government funded thing. UGC could be called more of a megacorporation since it has a monopoly on a certain thing and has the police to back them up and can kill people, thus making UGC above the law. There are differences between company and corporation, but I won't go into that right now. But my own comments on the satire/ideas of it: I don't really think it is really capitalist greed, since the people really needed to have a smaller amount of people used toilets/wasting water. At the end they same that Bobby's idea of free peeing is bad and many people die of dehydration. Of course I would not fully condone the UGC's actions, the killing and all, ya know. And they do exploit the poor and there is capitalist greed. But I think it is more of a satire of gov mismanagement on the government that allowed the UGC and Bobby's people. Since neither of the corporations/companies were in control of the government. But the government almost actively participated with the public toilets since there were laws forcing people to use UGC's toilets. Also I would say it is satire of a public uprising/revolution and the people's resulting government. Maybe I would even say it is a satire of socialist government. Since most socialist government's don't have enough supplies to met the needs of the people and then people die because of it. But the socialist gov part of my ideas are if we pretend that both of the companies were really the government, or symbolism of govrnment. I wouldn't say it is that far of a stretch since we don't see any government officials besides the police, and they're on the side of the UGC. It is all really murky around UGC vs gov and on which is which. Is UGC the governemnt? No, it is a company, Urine Good Company with a president and all of their own hierarchy. But UGC can get the police to do their bidding and have laws made in their favor. UGC even has a politician in their pocket, the character of Senator Flipp! Also the UGC punishes the people who break toilet based laws, or laws that are not in UGC's favor.
I hope this helped clearing things up, even though I got on a tangent about the meaning of the musical and didn't really talk that much on private vs public things.
Jehan Prouvaire
This is so informative; thank you! I definitely agree with your points, and they only confirm what makes *Urinetown* such a good musical - there's depth to it. I love musicals that actually make people think. And let's face it; the ironic ending is one of the greatest musical endings *ever*.
+Amelia Doubleyou they did Urinetown for my high school's musical this year I planed to try out but I didn't know anything about it so I passed it up. I watched the first act at school and loved it the following week I took my family and we loved it
I don't really think it's either. It's more of a satire on narratives (musicals, mainly) about economic inequality, capitalist greed, and bureaucracy. It's mocking musicals like Les Miserables that make heroic underdog stories out of over-simplified political situations. It simultaneously satirizes corporate hypocrisy/greed and acknowledges the elephant in the room: these idealistic concepts of freedom and total equality that we see on stage are ineffective. You overthrow the bad guy and then what? The societal needs they satisfied just disappear? This isn't making much sense but anyway, I think it's making fun of stories about the subject matter more so than mocking the subject matter itself.
Is there any place to purchase this DVD with better quality?
Oh hon. I wish.
where is the song mr caldwell
+isaac herrera at about 19:50
1:28:21 #14a follow your heart scene change (lead up to why did i listen to that man?)
why is it such bad quality :(
57:47 Act One Finale
1:35:55 Bobby's removal
19:40 Mr. Cladwell
YES!
26:45
for future reference: 1:13:29
1:33:20 Why did i listen to that man?
51:44 Don't be the bunny
31:21
26:40 Cop Song
Hope Little Sally Bobby
1:08:28
This my school musical
00:6:08
hahaha! Exactly!
Pertaining to some of the posted comments about toilets being public or private, intellectual property like a Broadway musical is private too... owned by people whose livelihood depends on earning an income from audiences who pay to see it... until somebody decides to illegally record a performance and make the private IP public property. They should make a musical about Broadway buffs who love musicals so much they egregiously and willfully violate the property rights of the authors and composers and producers who create the content the violators love. Here’s the perfect name for that musical satire: Oxymoron.
Oh fuck you. Get off your high horse. First off, how the fuck does making a video of a show make it public property? Recording a show doesnt make it okay for the public to use (what public property means). To put on a production you still have to pay the owner to do so. And bootlegs of productions are still illegal. Second, you realise the main reason people keep illegally recording musicals is because the people who own them dont record it themselves? If more owners of musicals recorded videos of their musical, there would probably be less illegally recorded ones. And recording these bootlegs doesnt take money from the maker's pockets, if anything it might increase it. Someone might see a bootleg of a musical they've never heard of and become a fan and then see the show. I've watched actually legally made videos of musicals (thanks germany!) and became huge fans of them. I actually bought a licensed DVD of a professionally shot musical, so the owners of that musical profited from just me doing that not to mention if I ever see the show live. If given the chance to see that musical live, or any other musical I became a fan of from watching their pro-shot, I would do so in a heart beat. Any musical fan can tell you that when given the choice of a bootleg and actually seeing the show, they take the show. And some bootlegs of shows are from shows that have closed or flopped horribly. I am the biggest fan of Lestat the musical after I watched some bootlegs of it, but it flopped so bad Elton john never even released the cast recording, I know it exists they recorded it a week before the show closed. The only way to listen or watch the show currently is via bootlegs. And if Elton John ever released that cast recording I would buy the physical CD of it the day it came out.
So Newsies…but with pee
Hope Little Sally Bobby
1:33:48
1:34:37