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Twenty-four years later, City Center has brought it back as part of its Encores!
Sheer stupidity, I guess, contains a lot of prophecy.
No ones gettin anywhere for free!
Penelope Pennywise, who runs one of the public amenities, announces early on in act one.
Dont you think I have bills of my own to pay?!
Dont you think I have taxes and tariffs and payoffs to meet too?!
Soon, I assume, shell be confirmed for a Cabinet position.
(It reminded me of theclapterinMerrily We Roll Alongwhen the news anchors mentionRoev.Wade.)
Its more damning, and darkly hilarious, that we have all descended to their scatological level.
Since, it has had an improbably, but fittingly, long life in regional and student productions.
(Teen Pennywises make regular appearances at theJimmy Awards.)
space orThe Book of Mormon.
The action plays out with the sumptuous Encores!
Rainn Wilson has come in from the world of TV to play the sneering plutocrat Caldwell B. Cladwell.
If hes less comfortable with the music, his Dwight intensity at least lends the character an unnerving acidity.
Here, for the most part, everything remains potable.
Then again, theres prescience there too.
This show is all premised on ecological collapse.
What should we do then?
Urinetownis at New York City Center.
