Currency Press
0
  • Books
    • New Releases
      • New Releases Currency Press
      • New Releases Nick Hern Books
    • Scripts
      • Children’s and Young Adult
      • Play Collections
      • Currency Press Plays
      • Nick Hern Books Plays
      • Screenplays
    • Professional Handbooks
      • Acting and audition
      • Activities and Games
      • Dance and Movement
      • Directing and Theatremaking
      • Shakespeare
      • Voice and performance skills
      • Writers and Writing
    • Performing arts general
      • Australian Screen Classics
      • Biography, History and Criticism
      • Theatre
      • Music
      • Education
    • Currency House Books
      • Platform Papers
      • General Titles
    • What’s On Stage
  • Authors
    • Currency Authors
    • Nick Hern Authors
  • Playwrights’ Festival
  • Online Resources
    • Catalogues/Price Lists
    • Cue the Chorus
    • Introductions
    • Not in Print Podcasts
    • Verbatim Theatre: interviews
    • Educators
      • Syllabus Text Lists
      • Teachers Notes / Study Guides
  • About Us
    • Contact us
    • Distributors and Booksellers
    • Performance Rights
    • Permissions
    • Submissions
    • History
    • Work with us
  • News
0
was successfully added to your cart.

Press enter to begin your search
Home Drama Urinetown: The Musical

Urinetown: The Musical

$24.99

ISBN: 9781854597175
Author: By Greg Kotis, Mark Hollmann
Publication Date: 2/10/2014
Publisher: Nick Hern Books
Extent: 144pp.
Availability: Available

Clear
SKU: BK2459 Categories: Drama, Full-length, Musicals / plays with music, Nick Hern Books, Plays, Political / social themes, Significant female role/s Tag: Nick Hern Books
  • Details
  • Additional information

In a Gotham-like city, a depletion of the Earth’s water supply has led to a government-enforced ban on private toilets. The privilege to pee is regulated by a single malevolent company that profits by charging for one of humanity’s most basic needs. From amongst the people, a hero has risen who will lead them to freedom.

A grand, mischievous love letter to the conventions of musical theatre, Urinetown depicts a world wracked by ecological disaster, caught in the throes of corporate greed, and ultimately toppled by the best of intentions.

Praised by critics for reinvigorating the contemporary musical, Urinetown is one of the most distinctive, intelligent and jubilant theatrical experiences of the twenty-first century. It opened at New York City’s Fringe Festival, then transferred to Broadway in September 2001, winning three Tony Awards, including Best Book of a Musical.

Urinetown received its UK premiere at the St James Theatre, London, in February 2014, later transferring to the Apollo Theatre in September, in a production directed by Jamie Lloyd.

This edition includes a preface by playwright David Auburn and extensive introductions by each of the authors.

‘A dark, stark delight’
— The Stage

‘Darkly entertaining and exceptionally sharp’
— Telegraph

‘A musical for our times… Uniquely outrageous’
— Chicago Tribune

‘Somewhere beyond the sublime, beyond the ridiculous, lies Urinetown. Inspired, fresh, exuberant, even moving’
— Entertainment Weekly

Additional information

formats

ePub, Mobi, Print

More Titles To Explore

  • $24.99
    Nick Hern Books

    Biscuits for Breakfast

    Select options
  • $24.99
    Drama, Full-length, Nick Hern Books, Plays, Significant female role/s

    Loyal Women

    Select options
  • $31.99
    Nick Hern Books

    MALAPROP: plays

    Select options
  • $19.99
    Drama, Full-length, Nick Hern Books, Plays

    Long Day’s Journey into Night

    Select options
  • $19.99
    Comedy, Drama, Full-length, Nick Hern Books, Plays

    Educating Agnes

    Select options
  • $31.99
    Drama, Full-length, Nick Hern Books, Plays, Political / social themes

    Emperor and Galilean

    Select options
  • $19.99
    Drama, Full-length, Nick Hern Books, Plays, Political / social themes

    Penelope

    Select options
  • $23.99
    Diverse sexuality themes, Drama, Full-length, Nick Hern Books, Plays

    The Tree of Knowledge

    Select options
  • $27.99
    Comedy, Drama, Full-length, Nick Hern Books, Plays, Shakespeare

    Much Ado About Nothing

    Select options
  • $24.99
    Drama, Full-length, Musicals / plays with music, Nick Hern Books, Plays, Political / social themes, Significant female role/s

    Lilies on the Land

    Select options
  • $24.99
    Adaptations, Drama, Full-length, Nick Hern Books, Plays, Political / social themes, Young adult

    Kes

    Select options
  • $23.99
    Comedy, Drama, Full-length, Gender themes, Nick Hern Books, Plays, Political / social themes

    The Massive Tragedy of Madame Bovary

    Select options
Previous - Next

Search titles

Product categories

  • Acting and audition 119
  • Activities and Games 13
  • Adaptations 150
  • Australian history 57
  • Australian Screen Classics 14
  • Auto/biography 16
  • Award winning 77
  • Black comedy 22
  • CALD writer 18
  • Children’s theatre 35
  • Comedy 261
  • Cross-artform plays 3
  • Currency Press 458
  • Dance and Movement 17
  • Directing and Theatremaking 78
  • Diverse sexuality themes 73
  • Drama 1261
  • Education 14
  • Epic 18
  • Farce 10
  • Full-length 702
  • Gender themes 110
  • Gift Cards 6
  • History and Criticism 31
  • Indigenous playwrights 30
  • Indigenous themes 53
  • Internationally produced 4
  • Monologues 36
  • Multicultural themes 89
  • Music 11
  • Musicals / plays with music 64
  • Mystery 25
  • Naturalism / realism 40
  • New Releases 24
  • Nick Hern Books 1186
  • One-act play 27
  • Physical theatre 9
  • Platform Papers 59
  • Play Collections 108
  • Plays 1327
  • Plays by women 255
  • Poetic 38
  • Political / social themes 431
  • Satire 19
  • Screen books 8
  • Screenplays 7
  • Shakespeare 62
  • Short play under 15 minutes 13
  • Significant female role/s 348
  • Solo performer 58
  • Surreal / magic realism 93
  • Theatre 64
  • Two-hander 64
  • Uncategorized 1
  • Verbatim / close work theatre 20
  • Very short play under 15 minutes 1
  • Voice and performance skills 13
  • Writers and Writing 22
  • Young adult 203

Newsletter

Signup to our Newsletter


By submitting this form, you are consenting to receive marketing emails from: . You can revoke your consent to receive emails at any time by using the SafeUnsubscribe® link, found at the bottom of every email. Emails are serviced by Constant Contact

Links

Contact Us
Booksellers
History
Performance Rights
New Releases
Scripts

Links

The Currency Award
Authors
Submissions
Privacy Policy
Whats On Stage
Writers and Writing
Currency Press acknowledges the Gadigal people of the Eora nation, the traditional custodians of the land on which we work. We pay our respects to their elders past, present and emerging.  Always was, always will be Aboriginal Land.

© 2023 Currency Press. All Rights Reserved.

  • Books
    • New Releases
      • New Releases Currency Press
      • New Releases Nick Hern Books
    • Scripts
      • Children’s and Young Adult
      • Play Collections
      • Currency Press Plays
      • Nick Hern Books Plays
      • Screenplays
    • Professional Handbooks
      • Acting and audition
      • Activities and Games
      • Dance and Movement
      • Directing and Theatremaking
      • Shakespeare
      • Voice and performance skills
      • Writers and Writing
    • Performing arts general
      • Australian Screen Classics
      • Biography, History and Criticism
      • Theatre
      • Music
      • Education
    • Currency House Books
      • Platform Papers
      • General Titles
    • What’s On Stage
  • Authors
    • Currency Authors
    • Nick Hern Authors
  • Playwrights’ Festival
  • Online Resources
    • Catalogues/Price Lists
    • Cue the Chorus
    • Introductions
    • Not in Print Podcasts
    • Verbatim Theatre: interviews
    • Educators
      • Syllabus Text Lists
      • Teachers Notes / Study Guides
  • About Us
    • Contact us
    • Distributors and Booksellers
    • Performance Rights
    • Permissions
    • Submissions
    • History
    • Work with us
  • News
  • Account details
  • Orders
  • Addresses
  • Payment methods
  • Lost password
  • Login
  • Logout

Contact Us

Phone: +61 2 9319 5877

Mailing Address:
PO Box 2287,
Strawberry Hills, NSW 2012

Street Address:
Level 1, 164 James St (between Pitt & George St),
Redfern, NSW 2016
ABN: 75 000 938 929

General Enquiries:
[email protected]

Trade Enquiries: [email protected]

Cart

Search

2020 Copyright Currency Press