Urinetown, the Musical
Music & Lyrics by Mark Hollmann Book & Lyrics by Greg Kotis
April 15-25, 2027
Harriet S Jorgensen Theatre
Single Ticket Pricing
Adults: $46, $41, $36
Seniors, UConn Faculty & Staff: $41, $36, $31
Students, Children: $15, $12
$5 Student Night: Thursday 4/22
$25 UConn Faculty & Staff Night: Wednesday 4/21
Winner of three Tony Awards, three Outer Critics Circle Awards, two Lucille Lortel Awards and two Obie Awards, Urinetown is a hilarious musical satire of the legal system, capitalism, social irresponsibility, populism, environmental collapse, privatization of natural resources, bureaucracy, municipal politics, and musical theatre itself! Hilariously funny and touchingly honest, Urinetown provides a fresh perspective on one of America’s greatest art forms.
In a Gotham-like city, a terrible water shortage, caused by a 20-year drought, has led to a government-enforced ban on private toilets. The citizens must use public amenities, regulated by a single malevolent company that profits by charging admission for one of humanity’s most basic needs. Amid the people, a hero decides that he’s had enough and plans a revolution to lead them all to freedom!
Urinetown is presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI).
All authorized performance materials are also supplied by MTI.
www.MTIshows.com
A sidesplitting sendup of greed, love, revolution (and musicals!), in a time when water is worth its weight in gold.
Performances:
Thursday, April 15, 7:30pm – Preview
Saturday, April 17, 8pm – Opening
Sunday, April 18, 2pm
Wednesday, April 21, 7:30pm
Thursday, April 22, 7:30pm – $5 Student Night, Talkback
Friday, April 23, 8pm
Saturday, April 24, 2pm – Talkback
Sunday, April 25, 2pm – Closing
Mark Hollmann
music & lyrics
Mark Hollmann received the Tony Award®, the National Broadway Theatre Award, and the Obie Award for his score to Urinetown the Musical, which had its start in the 1999 New York International Fringe Festival. It won Outer Critics Circle, Drama League, and Lucille Lortel Awards for best musical in addition to garnering 10 Tony Award® nominations. Other shows as composer/lyricist include Yeast Nation (2011 New York International Fringe Festival, Perseverance Theatre, American Theatre Company, and Ray of Light Theatre), Bigfoot and Other Lost Souls (Atlantic Stage and Perseverance Theatre), The Man in the White Suit (New York Stage and Film), The Girl, the Grouch, and the Goat (University Theatre, U. of Kansas), Alchemist the Musical (Seattle Fringe Festival), Jack the Chipper (Greenview Arts Center, Chicago), Kabooooom! (University Theater, U. of Chicago), I Think I Can and Deal with It! (Berkshire Theatre Festival), and Fare for All (Mount Vernon Hotel Museum & Garden, NYC). Actor and/or co-writer for the Cardiff Giant Theater (Chicago) productions The Rack, Theater of Funny, The Mercy Ripper, LBJFKKK, Love Me, All Eight Die, and After Taste, the last of which he also directed. TV: songs for Disney Channel’s Johnny and the Sprites. He has served on the Tony Nominating Committee, serves on the Council of the Dramatists Guild of America, and is a member of ASCAP. He is also a member of Sure Foundation Lutheran Church in Woodside, Queens, where he serves as a part-time pianist. He and his wife Jilly live in Manhattan with their sons, Oliver and Tucker.
Greg Kotis
book & lyrics
Greg Kotis wrote the book and co-wrote the lyrics for Urinetown the Musical, for which he won two Tony Awards in 2002. His new play, Pig Farm, opened at The Roundabout Theatre in New York City and at The Old Globe Theatre in San Diego in 2006. Currently, he is developing two new musicals with Mark Hollmann: Yeast Nation (the triumph of life), an original story that tells the tale of the dawn of life on Earth, and The Man in the White Suit, a musical version of the 1951 Alec Guiness film. Other plays include Eat the Taste (at New York’s Barrow Street Theatre), Jobey and Katherine, Baron von Siebenburg Melts Thought the Floorboards, and Give the People What They Want. Greg lives in Brooklyn with his wife Ayun, his daughter India, and his son Milo.
Spencer Reese
director
Dmitriy Glivinskiy
music director
Dmitriy Glivinskiy is a Ukrainian vocal coach and conductor and the Music Director of the Opera department at UConn. He is a graduate of Mannes College of Music and of the Peabody Institute where, among his teachers, were Pavlina Dokovska, Boris Slutsky and Scott Jackson Wiley. He is a former faculty member of Hofstra University and Brooklyn College. He is currently part of the creative team for the “Writer’s Room” project with Experiments in Opera and the American Opera Projects and NYU/Tisch Opera Lab, both of which are incubators for new operas.
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