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Thu, 01/26/2012 - 10:14am
Theater: ‘Urinetown, The Musical’
By
Marsden Epworth
compass@lakevillejournal.com
Mark Schane-Lydon and Eleah Peal as Officer Lockstock and Little Sally

Musicals are fairy tales. Some are jolly, like “Annie.” Some are grim: “Urinetown, The Musical,” for one.

Grim, perplexing, riveting.

At its heart, “Urinetown,” about a drought-ridden city and the corporate takeover of all toilets, is one long potty joke surrounding a tale of political domination and urban struggle. “Let my people pee” is scrawled on one wall of the grimy and admirably baleful set in this Ghent Playhouse production. But the UGC, the Urine Good Company, is totally in charge, forcing people to stand, squirming, in line waiting to pay for the UGC latrine.

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