Urinetown The Musical at Mary Moody Northen Theatre

In this side-splitting satire, the young hero Bobby Strong leads his community in a fight against oppression. Set in a dystopian world where water is scarce and “Hope” is even scarcer, all citizens must now pay a fee for “The Privilege to Pee” at one of the public facilities controlled by the selfish tycoon, Caldwell B. Cladwell, and monitored by authorities like Officer Lockstock. But the citizens can only hold it in so much longer, and soon the poorest, filthiest of these facilities, run by the formidable Penelope Pennywise, becomes a “number one” site for major change. Equal parts irreverent and insightful, this Tony Award–winning musical is as smart as it is hilarious.