- Pioneer Performance Series
The Pioneer Performance Series allows Suffolk students the opportunity to work with groundbreaking and innovative material from provocative new (and occasionally cult classic) playwrights and composers.
Last year’s Pioneer Performance Series production was Urinetown, and was performed in the C. Walsh Theatre at 8pm on April 19th, 20th & 21st. Tickets are free but required for all three performances.
Urinetown was originally staged at the New York International Fringe Festival in 1999. It opened Off-Broadway in May 2001, and moved to Broadway in September 2001. In 2002, it was nominated for six Tony awards, winning three: Best Original Score, Best Director and Best Book for a Musical.
The play is set in a “Gotham-like city” in a not-too-distant future “sometime after the Stink Years,” where, to deal with a crippling water shortage, private toilets have been outlawed and the populace must pay to use “public amenities.” A young idealist leads an uprising against the Urine Good Company, which controls the public toilets, while falling in love with the CEO’s daughter.
Urinetown is a satirical comedy musical which pokes fun at corporate management and culture, law enforcement, government, bureaucracy, idealism, romance, musical theater, itself, and anything else it can get its hands on. It is, at the same time, filled with catchy tunes, loveable characters and witty dialogue. It achieves the nearly impossible – to simultaneously parody and exemplify the best in an art form.
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