Urinetown The Musical Tickets

Urinetown the musical show description

The smash-hit Tony award winning Broadway musical Urinetown is performing in London at the Apollo Theatre

The satirical musical is an epic tale of greed, corruption, love and revolution set in a time when water is worth its weight in gold.

Urinetown was a huge sell-out success and critically accliamed when it played earlier in the year for a limited season at the St James theatre in Victoria. Now the musical is set for an extended run in the heart of London’s West End. The show was nominated for 10 Tony awards, winning for best book, score and direction.

The story is set in a city of the future that has been inflicted by a terrible drought, business tycoon Caldwell B. Cladwell has made a fortune by monopolising all public toilets, seized through bribery and corruption. A brutal police force enforce a strict law and order and anyone getting caught short in a public place is sent to a place where no-one returns from – Urinetown.

Greg Kotis conceived the original idea for Urinetown the musical after his encounter with a pay-per-use toilet whilst travelling in Europe. Urinetown is a political and social satire. Water is so scarce that the government ban private toilets in an effort to conserve water. With public toilets under the control of Urine Good Company owned by the aforementioned Caldwell B. Cladwell, water is at a premium. Citizens who try to circumnavigate the pay toilets are whisked away to Urinetown, never to be seen again.

A revolution brews as the masses rise up in defiance under the leadership of an unlikely hero, the dashing young rebel Bobby Strong.

Award-winning director Jamie Lloyd, whose previous credits include Richard III and The Commitments, directs this sharp-witted rampant riot of a show that tells the tale of a town about to burst; spending a penny can prove problematic in a place where the privilege to pee has a preposterous price tag. There is no such thing as rent free relief until our young hero Bobby Strong appears with more than a good set of pipes.

Sometimes all you need is a drop of a hope to save the world!