Why should I see Urinetown?
My guess is that you just think you hate traditional musicals, which I can say with some authority because I used to think I hated traditional musicals until I started paying attention to them and realized I actually loved them. Most people distrust traditional musicals because they seem to belong to another time, another generation, another sensibility, which at its worst, settles back into cheap sentiment, thin characters, and artless stories. This was my guess when I started working on Urinetown. I thought of the form as grand and self-important and silly, which was the pose I wanted to strike with our show. Fortunately, Mark Hollmann, my collaborator, was truly schooled in the form. He knew what a well crafted musical was, what it could do, and what should be done with it so the form was respected. The end result is a show written as if by one man who loved musicals and one man who hated musicals, only to discover he actually loved musicals which is exactly how the show was written
