The world is your toilet!
Presented by The MIT Musical Theatre Guild
By Greg Kotis and Mark Hollmann
Directed by Daniel Epelbaum
Music and Vocal Direction by Paul Gallagher
Produced by Caroline Walsh and Anni Zhang
November 17 – 20, 2016
MIT’s La Sala de Puerto Rico
84 Mass Ave, Cambridge
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Review by Danielle Rosvally
(Cambridge, MA) Urinetown is a tough piece to tackle. It’s a satire and, as such, full of clichés that are meant to be hit precisely right in order to ring hilarious and not maudlin. It’s a dark musical with dark themes, a dark plot, and a dark ending. Last, but certainly not least, there are several technical demands that make it an interesting theatrical problem to solve (one character is thrown off a building onstage…. Try staging that without a fly rig). Continue reading
