Last night I went with a couple friends to a musical production at the local university. The production, oddly enough, was called Urinetown: The Musical. Yep, that's no typo.
The premise of the musical was that there is a severe water shortage following a 20 year drought and as a result all private toilets are banned. Everyone must pay to go to the bathroom and all the facilities are owned by the same evil monopolistic company (of course). Those found violating the law by 'doing their business' in public are sent away to the mysterious 'Urinetown' as punishment.
I am usually not one for musicals (really we're bursting into song, again?) or even toilet humor for that matter but this production was great. It was very poignant but didn't take itself too seriously, it was great balance.
I don't live in a city where people get outside the box much, sometimes it's a black hole for forward thinking. Pretty much people just go to the movies, or do something 'family oriented' so I was impressed that the university pushed the limit by doing this production and even more impressed that the house was nearly full. Maybe there's hope yet.
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