#urinetown

[inkybinkyboink]

guys. girlies. folks. people. listen ok. if you're a minor on this platform who's also very into Broadway (I know you exist. I used to be you.) I need you to know this so so so bad. and this is from someone who's been studying theatre and English for a good four years now, and i cant emphasize this enough:

everything done in a show is intentional.

literally, I promise you, everything that seems weird has a purpose. I swear to God. that rhyme, the repetition, the seemingly offhand choices. it's intentional. I saw someone say into the woods basically ended after act one. bullshit. sondheim made those choices for a reason. every melody and theme is there for a reason. all those harmonies (they're annoying I know) are there for a reason.

this isn't to say that people can't casually enjoy a show, I think that's important too, but if you're doing it at your school, if you're doing an essay on it, don't write anything off. your character has those exact lines for a reason. your script is your best friend. the stage directions are your other best friend. everything you need to create your character no matter how big or small is right there. I promise.

#theatre #broadway #newsies #hamilton #les miserables #into the woods #urinetown #be more chill #heathers

[submissive-dumbass]

“Kill them with kindness” WRONG. Send their ass to Urinetown

#urinetown #guess I’m shitposting about this obscure (????) musical again #broadway #meme

[sillysally13]

#urinetown #urinetown musical #tgwdlm #the guy who didn't like musicals #starkid #hatchetfield #musical theatre #theatre #theater #sillysallyspeaks #theater kid #theatre kid

[doyouknowthischaracter]

DO YOU KNOW THIS CHARACTER?

#dyktc polls #polls #officer lockstock #urinetown #category: musicals #category: live action

[marquisdecat]

#urinetown #musicals

[fencecollapsed]

WONDERFUL question @magentagalaxies :]

so picture this. you're in the middle of a 20 year water shortage. a shortage so bad water consumption has to be strictly regulated. by getting rid of private bathrooms, and only allowing people to do their business in public, pay-to-use toilets. if you can't pay, you don't get to go, and if you try to do your business in the bushes or in jars in your home you'll get caught and arrested. breaking the public health act gets you sent to Urinetown. no one knows what Urinetown is, but it's a bad place

our narrator is a cop, Officer Lockstock, who throughout the show talks to the audience and a girl named Little Sally about the show. he gives the show's twist away halfway through act one

our leading man is Bobby Strong, an assistant custodian at the poorest public toilet in town. his boss is a lady named Miss Pennywise. in the opening scene, Bobby's dad's short on cash and can't pay the fee, so Miss Pennywise won't let him in. when Bobby won't help him out he ends up doing his business on the sidewalk and gets exiled to Urinetown

our villain is Caldwell B Cladwell, the guy who runs the public restroom company and put the fees in place. he bribes the lawmakers and cops to do his bidding and let him keep raising the pee fees, promising the people his company is looking for longterm solutions to the water shortage, but it seems all they do with the money is go on vacations

our leading lady is Hope Cladwell, bastard daughter of Mr Cladwell and Miss Pennywise, just returned from the most expensive university in the world to work at her dad's company. character of all time. she meets Bobby, hears of his guilt over his dad, and encourages him to follow his heart and do what he thinks is right

so Bobby starts a revolution at the toilet he works at, letting the poor in town pee for free

shit hits the fan after that! Hope spends most of act two as a hostage. people die. the two cops have a literal honest to god Destiel Superhell moment, where Officer Barrel tells Lockstock he loves him, Lockstock says "I see" and then Barrel immediately gets murdered

it ends with a stinger joke that exactly two people have laughed at throughout this entire run, and I had to look it up to get it

it might be my favorite show that I've worked on

#cj says stuff #urinetown

[ivorypiano]

i think we should start treating the poor in urinetown like newsies fans do to the newsies. where are my soupy sue stans at

#urinetown #sav.txt

[dollarstoreartsupplies]

urinetown truly is the only musical like it’s about the effects of capitalism on ecology its about corruption in the police force it’s about gay cops it’s about piss it’s about white woman activism the main character dies at the start of the second act the narrator spoils the big mystery of the show ten minutes in and they still treat the reveal like new information it’s about shit the cast recording sounds like it was recorded through two tin cans connected with a piece of string 

#urinetown

[doyouknowthismusical]

#musical theater #do you know this musical #poll #urinetown #mark hollmann #Greg kotis #language: english

[puzzle-cat404]

tell her I love her

#urinetown #little sally #it’s probably my least favorite song in the musical sorry

[bestmusicalworldcup]

#best act i finale tournament #musicals #broadway #musical theater #musical theatre #theater #theatre #polls #urinetown #black friday #starkid #Youtube

[inkybinkyboink]

chaotic things about urinetown

the og bobby is sutton fosters brother

the writer/lyricist of the show went to school for poli-sci, dropped out, started writing tv/film/theatre, then wrote Urinetown and didnt write anything else

pay to pee toilets are a real thing

"we, we never fail"

"hail malthus"

the first thing we hear after the overture is the dies irae and spoils the whole show

all the jokes made by characters that arent the poor but also say fuck the rich

"crazy with nitrates half the time"

"never, nada, nein" from cladwell

"hydraulics? little sally?"

little sally

fipp going "i was a young girl once"

little sally knowing what the metaphysical is

little sally

#urinetown

[hypn0sssss]

Inspired by @kairithemang0 :)

#gonna ramble a bit before I tag them all #i could've put all of the Hatchetfield series but decided to stick to just one #I don't really talk about Newsies much on this page but I've loved it for years #i think I have Urinetown bias because (as of currently) it is the only show I've been in #i LOVE Legally Blonde y'all don't understand it's so good #it's my dream show to be in #anyways #newsies musical #be more chill #legally blonde the musical #death note musical #the guy who didn't like musicals #ride the cyclone #spies are forever #Urinetown #trail to oregon #heathers #mean girls the musical #six #misc musicals

[sillysally13]

one of my favorite things about urinetown is how so much of it is just literal nonsense

"There's a heart in the sky, there just is don't ask why"

"But daddy, bunnies don't drive cars" "Don't they?"

"It's a banner so wide flying proudly with pride"

"This riot's our child - This child is on fire"

"A pickle in the brine"

"I've lost my sense of sight - And yet I see them"

"look into the faces of our fellow man and see not only a brother but a sister as well"

"whenever they liked, as much as they liked, for as long as they liked, with whomever they liked"

"the glass of water is inside of you! it always has been"

#urinetown #urinetown musical #little sally #theater kid #sillysallyspeaks

[gilded-atlas]

my school is doing urinetown, and our hope is At Least 6 inches taller than our bobby, maybe more, which makes the kidnapping scene very funny, but also means she has to lean So far down to listen to his heart

#urinetown #college theater #musical theater #hope cladwell #bobby strong #height difference

[urinetownincorrectquotes]

barrel: Do you want to play 20 Questions? lockstock: Sure! lockstock: Whats your favorite color? barrel: Triangle. Do you like men?

#Urinetown #Urinetown musical #Incorrect quotes #Urinetown Incorrect quotes #theater kid #musical theatre