Urinetown (2001 Original Off-Broadway Cast)
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Edition: Music CDFormat: Cast Recording
CD Release Date: 2001-08-07
Music Label: RCA Victor Broadway
Soundtracks:
- Overture
- Too Much Exposition
- Urinetown
- It's A Privilege To Pee
- Mr. Cladwell
- Cop Song
- Follow Your Heart
- Look At The Sky
- Don't Be The Bunny
- Act One Finale
- What Is Urinetown?
- Snuff That Girl
- Run, Freedom, Run!
- Why Did I Listen To That Man?
- Tell Her I Love Her
- We're Not Sorry
- We're Not Sorry (reprise)
- I See A River
Music reviews of Urinetown (2001 Original Off-Broadway Cast)
Music Review: Ingenious but often smug and ideologically confused
Rating: 3 Stars
If there was ever a show which one might admire and yet on some level actively dislike, "Urinetown" might be the one. Admittedly, the score is tuneful and catchy, and the melodies are sometimes surprisingly beautiful (when they aren't overly Kurt Weill-esque). The orchestra--sounding like a combo of maybe five--does wonders with the score. "Look At the Sky" and "Run Freedom Run" are stirring, "Don't Be the Bunny" and "Snuff that Girl" are as musically irresistable as they are lyrically biting, and the cast performs with vigor. (Special props to Hunter Foster, who's just sensational.) Yet ultimately the show is so relentlessly snarky and pleased with itself that it begins to paint itself into corners, and then resort to philosophies that are downright bewildering. When things get really black in Act II and Officer Lockstock and Little Sally patronizingly try to answer the rhetorical question "What kind of a musical is this?", one is tempted to yell at the stereo: "Clearly, one written by people who've never seen 'Sweeney Todd' 'Phantom of the Opera' 'Les Miserables' 'Follies' 'Cabaret' 'West Side Story' 'Into the Woods' or even 'Carousel,' which bumped off its hero in Act I!" "Urinetown" thinks it's daring and "edgy"--which is why people who claim to hate musicals often love it--but its plotting is ridiculous, and at the end the bookwriters basically throw up their hands and resort to a sort of chipper nihilism. They then berate the audience and the listener for daring to enjoy themselves, like some sort of grim Soviet-era brainwashing; however, the entire plot of the show revolves around freedom for individuals and rebellion against the powerful--which then results in environmental apocalypse. Do the writers of this show seriously believe that a fascist intersection of government and business that suppresses humanity is the only thing PREVENTING enviromental meltdown? (The show never seriously addresses reducing overpopulation; that would detract from its ability to chastise the audience at the end of the show.) "Urinetown" ultimately is about nothing but its own cleverness, like the brainiest kid in the classroom who's "too cool" to be emotionally engaged or make a difference; its only real goal is to make a listener or audience member go, "Wow! I'm such a bourgeois loser for thinking I can make a difference politically in the world, and liking 'Hairspray!'" If you want real cynicism and pitch-black comedy, go with Kander and Ebb's "Cabaret" or "Chicago"; if you want sucker-punch tragedy, go with Sondheim's "Follies" or "Sweeny Todd."
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