Much of the audience was doubled over in laughter. I think we needed that. The credits listed below have been updated for the Broadway production. You're too young to understand it right now, Little Sally, but nothing can kill a show like too much exposition. That could kill a show pretty good.
Musicals spoofing musicals of by-gone times are decidedly the flavor of the theatrical season.
This genre within the musical genre has given us The Producers, a musicalized adaptation of a cult movie, and a revival of 42nd Street. Now, every bit as batty as Bat Boy , we have another unlikely musical spoof, with a title as intriguing as it is impolite. Unlike 42nd Street which is a glitzy backstage Cinderella saga, Urinetown is a darkly sardonic Brechtian tale and with the show itself the Cinderella. The musical borne of Kotis's experience met with countless rejections before winning a spot in the 1999 Fringe Festival. Now that the show has opened officially, it does indeed look as if tickets, while a quarter the cost of The Producers , will be equally hard to come by.