Nancy opel urinetown summary
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Urinetown
Tongue in cheek is clearly the tone of choice for Off Broadway musicals this season. First came “Bat Boy,” a self-consciously preposterous musical based on a story in the tabloid Weekly World News. Now welcome “Urinetown,” a self-consciously preposterous musical with a more respectable antecedent — Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill‘s “Threepenny Opera” — but a more spectacularly unsavory title.
As with “Bat Boy,” there’s a lot of talent on display in “Urinetown,” beginning behind the scenes with newcomers Mark Hollmann (music and lyrics) and Greg Kotis (book and lyrics). Onstage is a crew of uniformly delightful performers both seasoned (the bad-guy duo of John Cullum and Nancy Opel) and fresh (the good young lovers Jennifer Laura Thompson and Hunter Foster).
And just as “Bat Boy,” a scrappy show from L.A., was given a big commercial upgrade in Gotham from seasoned producers, there’s strong commercial interest in “Urinetown,” which is being presented by, among other entities, Dodger Theatricals, after an acclaimed run at the 1999 Fringe Festival.
“Bat Boy” was affectionately received by many critics, and it’s safe to say that
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