Rent
“Each year we try and finish our season with something either lighter or a musical with a kicker of a story. This year, we found both in Urinetown.”
Theatre
September 27, 2019
“Each year we try and finish our season with something either lighter or a musical with a kicker of a story. This year, we found both in Urinetown.”
Pangdemonium ends its 2019 season with a splash – Urinetown: The Musical gleefully takes the piss out of politicians, populism, “people power”, capitalism, corporate corruption, and musicals themselves! 20 years on, Urinetown continues to catapult musical theatre into a new dimension with its demented – yet uncannily familiar – depiction of a dystopian world, outrageous songs and a cunning knack of making you laugh ‘til you wet your pants. Urinetown is set in a fictional “most expensive city in the world”, where a cross-border water crisis has led to a government ban on private lavatories. The woeful water shortage sees the…