Urinetown
directed by Teresa Cruz
music and lyrics by Greg Kotis
book and lyrics by Mark Hollman
music direction: Jill Brunelle
choreography: Emily Brankman and Ava Dobro
scenic design: Elizabeth Olson
lighting design: Sam Biondiollo
costume design: Sabrina Notarfrancisco
cast:
Officer Lockstock: Ian Albanese, Ellie Best, Brielle Blood, Alexa Booker, Amanda Brady, Jo Duckett, Erin Flanagan, Jonah Hane, Cate Hashemi, Mia Jurkunas, Miya Lasher, Lauren McCoy, Kian Miranda-Rodriguez, Giuseppe Piccirilli, Bailey Regan, Finley Regan, Kate Rubel, Maggie Sendlenski, Julia Toyer
presented by:
Connecticut College, March 2024
“Welcome to Urinetown!
Not the place, of course, the musical!”
-Officer Lockstock
“It’s absurd. I can’t believe we get to get onstage and tell this story, use this kind of humor.”
-Tess Cruz
“What kind of musical is this?!
The good guys finally take over and then
everything starts falling apart?!”
-Little Sally
“Haha!” - Everybody after hearing the title of this show. And, you know what? Even if that wasn’t the case for you, you’re here now. Welcome! To Urinetown! Not the place where we are all doomed, but the Connecticut College departments of Theater and Music produced event! (Special shoutout to the Dance Department and Theater Services). I graduated from Conn in 2016 with a degree in Theater and Psychology and I did, in fact, dream of coming back to direct on the mainstage. Connecticut College is where my experience in theater went from a hobby to an active practice of collaboratively engaging with the complex truths of our world. Theater is able to incite change because it is an art deeply centered around our humanity. Yes! Even something like Urinetown! Haha! Urinetown works because of the silliness, there is room for all to find access to its point. It is a musical for musical lovers, a comedy for the clowns, and by they end, we will tell you what you should go home a google. But for this moment, it is enough that you bought your ticket and showed up tonight. To Urinetown! Haha! Whose in town? WE’RE IN TOWN!! Which town? The we’re-all-in-the-same-boat kind of town. The well-we-all-need-to-use-the-bathroom kind of town. The it’s-scary-to-think-of-our-collective-water-usage-but-it-is-less-scary-if-we-can-consider-our-future-TOGETHER kind of town. Enjoy the show! Haha!
-Tess Cruz, 2024
“What kind of musical is this?! The good guys finally take over
and then everything starts falling apart?!”
“As for the people of this town?
They did the best they could.
But they were prepared for the world they inherited, weaned as they were on the legend born of
their founding father’s scare tactics.”
-Officer Lockstock
