Urinetown @ Theatre Royal Winchester

Urinetown: The Musical is a toe tapping, finger snapping, musical comedy that premiered on Broadway in 2001, winning Tony Awards for Best Original Score and Best Book of a Musical for writers Greg Kotis and Mark Hollman.    

Drawing on and mashing up the theatrical conventions of Bertolt Brecht and the Broadway musical comedy, Kotis and Hollman have created an hilarious political satire in which the affluent control, and profit from, the effluent.    

Set within a community suffering from a 20-year drought, Urinetown: The Musical follows the trials and tribulations of everyday folk trying to pee in a world where you have to pay the fee. It’s a premise so ludicrous you couldn’t make it up, right? In fact, it’s so staggeringly ridiculous it could only possibly be a musical. And yes, the characters are aware that the title of the show is awful.