Word: showã
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Dates: during 2001-2001
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...greatest innovations are in staging and utilization of its space. Performed in the Fogg courtyard, the production has to work with an odd space not designed for traditional performance. The director manages not only to conquer the difficulties of the space, but to use the surroundings to the show??s advantage. When a chorus of demon-like figures accompany the sorceress, they appear through the windows and Roman-style arches on the second and third floors. At times, the actors virtually surround the audience, with singing coming from behind the audience and thunder cracking above...
...Urinetown, the citizens of the local town must do their private business at public bathrooms which charge a fee. As the show??s narrator explains, “That is the central conceit of the show.” It should be noted that on the word “show?? he strikes the pose of a chorine delivering her big line in an old-style Follies; this sets the tone for an evening in which musical theater, particularly that which attempts a social conscience, serves as the focus of blunt, but hysterical, satire...
...course, Urinetown does have its own social conscience—near as I could tell its underlying point has something to do with over-consumption of resources and the unsustainable lifestyle of man. And yet, the show??s point isn’t quite the point. Every plot twist is an opportunity to mock a theatrical device or style of theater. Urinetown is possessed of such charm and generates such tremendous good will that even old jokes like the deliberate misunderstanding of idiomatic language seem fresh and welcome
...immediate belly laughs, but also more thoughtful delayed laughter, as well as a lasting grin of appreciation. The entire tone of the show is refreshingly irreverent. That’s a word that’s overused and misapplied quite a bit, but perhaps no term better describes the show??s delight in exploiting all things serious in a world in which serious appears altogether too prevalent...
...Survivor III” in Africa, Nick notes how the show??s casting of more middle aged people probably makes socializing more difficult. “Also, they’re in a natural game reserve with worse water and no bathing. That was a big deal for us, and the lack of water there makes everything more difficult. We could also fish to supplement our food. That isn’t an option for them,” Nick says...