#i miss urinetown

[funkyyusername]

i had never once mentioned it and honestly i don’t know why but my production of urinetown had puppets. we learned how to use puppets for a show about piss. my off night puppet was the best looking one cause i got my connections (me and the techie making the puppets are friends)

okay but actually more about the puppets because they were so cool

-the character who used the puppets the most were the poor character and poor ensemble

-the whole thing with the puppets was that it was like physically showing how the poor were like puppets following orders from the rich

-bobby had this really big puppet where u could control the hands

-at the end of follow your heart hope KISSED the PUPPET and then bobby like became free from his puppet

-it’s showing how he became his own person cause this is when he gets the idea for the revolution yknow

-and then at the end of look of the sky is when all the poor ensemble (minus little sally) shed off their puppets

-because!!! bobby convinced the poor the join the revolution!!!! its showing the rich losing their power!!!!!! its cool trust me

-also don’t be the bunny had puppet choreo which is was the coolest

-also side note while the rich and cop ensemble didn’t have puppets they were like their own thing

-rich people were real life marionette dolls who all dressed the same

-cops were robots

-yes barrel was also a robot

-this does technically mean that lockstocks only friends were a robot and a child

-anyway back on the puppets

-so about little sally!! her thing with the puppets was so cool

-so!!!!! with the puppets basically all poor characters would talk through their puppets. like when they speak the puppet also speaks. opening their mouth and everything

-but!!!! little sally doesn’t control her puppet

-lockstock does

-HEAR ME OUT so basically every single time little sally says a line lockstock is somewhere with the little sally puppet controlling it

-but little sally would give him the puppet!!! like willingly

-it shows how lockstock was like manipulating sally but she was letting him yada yada

-so like whenever lockstock wasn’t on stage and little sally wasn’t yapping she held onto her puppet like a teddy bear

-yes a puppet of herself was her teddy bear dont think too hard on it

-anyway so little sally was the last person to become free from her puppet

-basically during act one finale when she says to lockstock “this may not be a happy musical but its still a musical! and when a little girl like me has been given as many lines as i hav theres still hope for dreams!” is when she SNATCHES her puppet out of lockstock hands

-she SNATCHES her own free will guys!!!

-yeah so the puppets weren’t used to much for act 2

-but!!! during the end of i see a river is when everyone (even rich and cop people) pull out a puppet

-we had this whole ending scene with all the puppets in the sky

-AND MALTHUS OR WHATEVER HIS NAME WAS

-HE WAS THE TRUE PUPPET MASTER

-we have like this balcony thing on the top of our stage and one of the techies went up there to be malthus

-also!!!!!!!! at the end of the musical when everyone gets their puppet back lockstock gets sally and sally gets lockstock!!!

-they’re both manipulating each other!!!

-healthiest father daughter relationship

[d-criss-news]

Darren Criss Is Betting Big on Maybe Happy Ending, the Musical You're About to Fall in Love With

Darren Criss on the Timelessness of MAYBE HAPPY ENDING

Darren Criss has danced up the corporate ladder as J. Pierrepont Finch, stripped down to his skivvies as a queer East German rock star and tackled the “profane poetry” of David Mamet. And still, he says, there’s one thing he hasn’t done: “I haven’t taken any risks on Broadway.”

That ends this season with Maybe Happy Ending, a new musical on a mission to draw audiences to the Belasco Theatre without the benefit of a recognizable title, popular source material or songs that have already spent time on the Billboard Hot 100. “It's a really, really hard market right now to be making art,” Criss says to Broadway.com Editor-in-Chief Paul Wontorek, chatting at So & So's Neighborhood Piano Bar. And commercial Broadway theater? It’s “tedious, expensive and a gamble.” So naturally, Criss is going double or nothing as both star and producer of Broadway’s next thrilling crap shoot.

Maybe Happy Ending takes the trappings of a classic love story and inserts futuristic robots with outdated software. Criss plays Oliver opposite Helen J Shen’s Claire—a pair of Helper-Bots who, on a quest to contact their former owner, evoke a kind of Millennial-Gen Z mismatch. But rather than getting swept away by love, the two retired machines take the concept itself and try to break it down to its zeros and ones. As Criss explains, “[It’s] two computers trying to computationally synthesize and process what love is and why human beings do this.”

The musical was a hit when it debuted in Seoul, South Korea nearly a decade ago, and now, writers Will Aronson and Hue Park have a crafted an English-language version that Criss thinks has the potential to ascend to the proverbial Heaviside Layer of musical theater. “This is the seminal version that I hope can last in perpetuity for the ages,” he says, adding confidently, “I do feel like this is a timeless piece.”

Original musicals have the most challenging road on Broadway. But when you look to grassroots successes like Urinetown, or Dear Evan Hansen, or even The Prom—which ran in New York for less than a year but inspired a starry film and a slate of regional and international productions—you see how quickly an unknown quantity can become canon. “People are always like, ‘There’s no one creating original things,’” Criss says. “They are. It’s just really, really hard to produce them because you really have to believe in something hard enough to be OK with the risk.”

The fact that Maybe Happy Ending has earned that belief from some of the theater’s heaviest hitters is telling. Director Michael Arden, hot off a 2023 Tony Award for his revival of Parade, chose the piece as his next musical. And producers Jeffrey Richards and Hunter Arnold, with nearly 20 Tony Awards between them, have given Arden free rein to make a capital “B” Broadway meal of it.

The show’s cast is deceptively modest (Marcus Choi and Dez Duron complete the four-hander), but there’s nothing minimalist about Arden’s vision for Maybe Happy Ending or the high-tech space he’s worked out with set designer Dane Laffrey. In short, “They don’t f**k around,” says Criss. “This show is very technologically advanced. I think it's kind of the ace in the hole that people aren't expecting.” He tosses out comparisons to Miss Saigon’s descending helicopter and The Phantom of the Opera’s haunted chandelier—emblems of the bygone ‘80s megamusical. In an era of subtlety and economy (think recent Tony winners Kimberly Akimbo or The Band’s Visit), this, Criss promises, is “a big-a** mother**king spectacle.”

It's another bold, all-in move from the Maybe Happy Ending team, but Criss is determined to hedge no bets this time around. He looks back at his Broadway resume: How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (“Glee was white-hot and I was going in for three weeks after Daniel Radcliffe”); Hedwig and the Angry Inch (“People love that show. With or without me, it would be just fine”); American Buffalo (“A beloved and respected American play”).

“They're all classics to some degree,” he concludes. “This is not that.” Of course, understanding what Maybe Happy Ending is not is less of an issue than getting audiences to understand what it is. Right now, Criss says, there are rumblings around town that it’s “the cute little robot show.” The thought puts a mischievous grin on his face: “You have no idea.”

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WONDERFUL question @magentagalaxies :]

so picture this. you're in the middle of a 20 year water shortage. a shortage so bad water consumption has to be strictly regulated. by getting rid of private bathrooms, and only allowing people to do their business in public, pay-to-use toilets. if you can't pay, you don't get to go, and if you try to do your business in the bushes or in jars in your home you'll get caught and arrested. breaking the public health act gets you sent to Urinetown. no one knows what Urinetown is, but it's a bad place

our narrator is a cop, Officer Lockstock, who throughout the show talks to the audience and a girl named Little Sally about the show. he gives the show's twist away halfway through act one

our leading man is Bobby Strong, an assistant custodian at the poorest public toilet in town. his boss is a lady named Miss Pennywise. in the opening scene, Bobby's dad's short on cash and can't pay the fee, so Miss Pennywise won't let him in. when Bobby won't help him out he ends up doing his business on the sidewalk and gets exiled to Urinetown

our villain is Caldwell B Cladwell, the guy who runs the public restroom company and put the fees in place. he bribes the lawmakers and cops to do his bidding and let him keep raising the pee fees, promising the people his company is looking for longterm solutions to the water shortage, but it seems all they do with the money is go on vacations

our leading lady is Hope Cladwell, bastard daughter of Mr Cladwell and Miss Pennywise, just returned from the most expensive university in the world to work at her dad's company. character of all time. she meets Bobby, hears of his guilt over his dad, and encourages him to follow his heart and do what he thinks is right

so Bobby starts a revolution at the toilet he works at, letting the poor in town pee for free

shit hits the fan after that! Hope spends most of act two as a hostage. people die. the two cops have a literal honest to god Destiel Superhell moment, where Officer Barrel tells Lockstock he loves him, Lockstock says "I see" and then Barrel immediately gets murdered

it ends with a stinger joke that exactly two people have laughed at throughout this entire run, and I had to look it up to get it

it might be my favorite show that I've worked on

[inkybinkyboink]

are you ever coming back to the urinetown fandom? we miss you so much 🙏🙏🙏

if you ever do headcanons of the poor ensemble like soupy sue, billy boy bill, robbie, tom, etc would be so cool omg!

oh fuck man I have the attention span of a labradoodle I don't know if I will 😔😔😔

your support and love is not ignored, though, and I'm very grateful, so for you troubles I will offer you this:

soupy sue has the biggest heart (I'm aware she helps kill barrel. don't worry abt it. soupy sue said acab). maybe she used to work at a soup kitchen or a homeless shelter? maybe some of the poor knew her before the drought and maybe she was known as Soupy Sue because she worked at the soup kitchen?

in our production Billy boy Bill, tiny Tom and robbie were all a trio but with this beautiful air of stupidity. like. loveably stupid.

I really like robbie in the Broadway version. he's this big stocky guy I could totally see chilling at a pier somewhere.

hungthefuckover staring out at the river with his fishing pole next to him

damn robbie wouldn't be able to fish anymore :(

tiny Tom looks up to Bobby like an older brother

our hot blades harry had some post apocalypse biker chique going on it was pretty cool

little Becky two shoes gets so much support from the other poor. they source out baby clothes and maternity clothes for her

genuinely I think the ensemble/the poor folk have to be so united. they're kind of all in this together and that's what binds them together as one entity.

they pilfer and steal from each other but I don't know that they would start fighting amongst themselves because they know at the end of the day that's only going to make them weaker against the rich

they'd have to exist in this sort of awful us vs them mindset because if they don't it leaves them vulnerable?

they do unethical and immoral things because a) they have no other choice and b) they know there's no better alternative. it's going to suck but at least it's going to suck together.

[imcrazierthanyouloosers]

My favorite parts of my production of urinetown (Part Two)

The sound cue on "Miss Pennywise" and "Caldwell"

Getting slow-mo beaten up

Bobby flirting with hope the entirety of run freedom run

Everyone being madly in love with bobby in run freedom run

Officer lockstock and little Sally sobbing hysterically into handkerchiefs after follow your heart

Little sally's look of utter horror as Lockstock calmly narrates everyone's demise

Hot blades harry using an inhaler like he's doing drugs after snuff that girl

"YOU CAN PUNISH OUR BODIES MR CLADWELL BUT YOU CAN NEVER PUNISH OUR SPIRTSSSSSS!" (demonic elmo pose)

Ghost arm wiggles after Tiny Tom and Old Man strong speak

Cladwell mewing on "you're making me BLUSh now"

"A RIVER?" Absolutely possessed voice of Ol' Ma strong

Hotblades Harry slinging an arm around Mcqueen and leaning his head on his shoulder "with whomever you like"

Hotblades harry blowing his nose with hopes hair after tell her I love her

the disgusted looks on the poors faces during the "i'm not sorry reprise"

"WHY NOT" (throws a Hotblades tantrum like child)

"To manipulate great masses of people daddy" (sad face as Cladwell dismisses said great masses of people)

Bobby high fiving the poor during look at the sky

Barrel and Lockstock posing in kung fu poses as bobby shouts "run, run for your lives!"

Bobby opting up in run freedom run after blowing a kiss at little becky

little becky passes out from too much bobby strong

the memos Bobby was handing out (heart, BS)

"Hello Bobby" Angry "Hello hope"

Our fipp hopping around on the floor as a bunny, fully scrunched up

Hotblades has a toliet tattoo

Everyone killing someone new every night with different methods and degrees of violence

Pennywise grabbing Bobby strong's face in look at the sky

the multiple fights and mental breakdowns happening in look at the sky whilst being frozen

Possibly More to follow this one

[minionwater]

n of course.

hope cladwell + bobby strong

multipart post incoming. brace yourselves

[wizardiest-wizard-of-oz]

if anyone wants I have a musicals playlist that's over 200 hours that has I think around 205 musicals here's an alphabetized list let me know if I'm missing any I should add (I don't like Andrew lloyd Webber musicals and I'm also not a huge fan of jukebox musicals more specifically mamma Mia) and if anyone wants a link please ask me

13

21 Chump Street

25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee

35MM

36 Questions

42nd Street

The Addams Family

Aida

Aladdin

Alice by Heart

Allegro

Amelie

Anastasia

Ani

Annie Get Your Gun

Annie

Anything Goes

Avenue Q

Back to the Future

Bat Boy

Beauty and the Beast

Beetlejuice

Be More Chill

The Big One-Oh

Billy Elliot

Black Friday

Bombshell

Bonnie and Clyde

Book of Mormon

Brigadoon

Bring it On

Once More With Feeling (Buffy musical)

Bugsy Malone

Bye Bye Birdie

Cabaret

Camelot

Carousel

Carrie

Catch Me if You Can

A Catered Affair

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Chess

Chicago

A Chorus Line

Cinderella (Rodgers and Hammerstein)

The Colour Purple

Come From Away

Company

Crybaby

Curtains

Damn Yankees

Days of Wine and Roses

Dear Evan Hansen

Desperate Measures

Dog Man

Dreamgirls

Dreamland

Dr Horrible's Sing Along Blog

Drowsy Chaperone

Duolingo on Ice

Elegies

Epic (all released sagas)

Everybody's Talking About Jamie

Falsettoland

Falsettos Revival

Firebringer

Flora the Red Menace

Follies

Fosse

Frankenstein

Frozen

Fun Home

Funny Girl

A Funny Thing Happened

A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder

Grand Hotel

Grease

The Great American Trailer Park

Grey Gardens

Gutenberg

Guys and Dolls

The Guy Who Didn't Like Musicals

G*psy

Hadestown (broadway)

Hadestown (off broadway)

Hairspray

Hair

Hamilton

Harmony

Heathers

Hedwig and the Angry Inch

Hello Dolly

Honk

How the Grinch Stole Christmas (this one is just for Patrick page)

How to Dance in Ohio

How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying

Hunchback of Notre Dame

In the Green

In the Heights

Into the Woods

In Trousers

It Shoulda Been You

Jekyll and Hyde

Kimberly Akimo

The King and I

Kinky Boots

Kiss of the Spider Woman

Legally Blonde

Lempicka

Les Miserables (english and french)

The Lightning Thief

The Lion King

Little Do They Know

The Little Mermaid

A Little Night Music

Little Shop of Horrors (english and german)

Little Women

Lizard Boy

Love in Hate Nation

Love's Labours Lost

Mad Ones

Make Me a Song

Mame

A Man of No Importance

March of the Falsettos

Marguerite

Martin Guerre

Mary Poppins

Matilda

Mean Girls

Merrily We Roll Along

Miss Saigon

Monty Python's Spamalot

The Music Man

My Fair Lady

My Heart Says Go

My Son's a Queer (But What Can You Do)

The Mystery of Edwin Drood

Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812

Nerdy Prudes Must Die (I only have one song because I'm waiting to watch it with my friend before adding more)

A New Brain

Newsies

New York, New York

Next to Normal

Nightmare Time

Nine

Octet

Oklahoma

Oliver

Once On This Island

Once Upon a Mattress

Only Murders in the Building (Death Rattle Dazzle)

The Pyjama Game

Parade

Pippin

The Prince of Egypt

Prodigal

The Producers

The Prom

Ragtime

Ride the Cyclone

The Rink

The Rocky Horror Picture Show

Schmigadoon

Schmicago

Scottsburo Boys

Seussical

She Loves Me

Sherlock

Shrek

Shucked

Six

Smash

Some Like it Hot

Something Rotten

The Sound of Music

South Pacific

Spiderman Turn off the Dark

The Spitfire Grill

Spongebob

Spring Awakening

Starship

State Fair

Sunday in the Park with George

Superhero

Sweeney Todd

Sweet Charity

The Theory of Relativity

Thoroughly Modern Millie

Tick Tick Boom

The Time Traveller's Wife

The Trail to Oregon

Twisted

Urinetown

A VHS Christmas Carol

The Visit

Waitress

Wait Wait Don't Kill Me

West Side Story

Wicked

Water for Elephants

Wizard of Oz

The Wiz

Zombie Prom

Zorba

[kai-justis]

heyy sorry I haven't posted in a little bit, I promise I'm still crazy I've just been preoccupied 😁

but!! in celebration of us finally having access to a recording of our show (which I'm not allowed to post sorry guys 😔) I want to try to start posting more!! (seriously guys I'm so excited, I've missed seeing the show so much 😔👍)

umm so I've been drawing some things but I wanna ask, would anyone want to see like. character sheets with my interpretations and headcanons of the characters maybe?? 😁

oh I forgot I can do polls, why not

uhh I'll set it for a week cause I'm slow at stuff

[bestmusicalworldcup]

2023 League of Musicals Alphabetized List of Musicals

Below is the full list of musicals in the League of Musicals sorted by Division.

Division A

Alice By Heart Annie Assassins Avenue Q The Band's Visit The Book of Mormon Cabaret Cats Chess Chicago A Chorus Line Come From Away Company Falsettos Fiddler on the Roof Firebringer Fun Home A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder Ghost Quartet Guys and Dolls Hadestown Hair Hairspray Hamilton Hello, Dolly! The Hunchback of Notre Dame In The Heights Into the Woods Jekyll and Hyde The King and I Kinky Boots Legally Blonde Les Misérables The Lion King Little Shop of Horrors Matilda Moulin Rouge Mozart, l'opéra rock The Music Man My Fair Lady Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812 Newsies Next to Normal Octet Once Once on this Island The Phantom of the Opera Pippin The Producers Ragtime Rent Ride the Cyclone The Rocky Horror Show Something Rotten The Sound of Music Spies Are Forever SpongeBob SquarePants: The Broadway Musical Spring Awakening Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street Twisted: The Untold Story of A Royal Vizier Waitress West Side Story Wicked The Wiz

Division B

25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee 42nd Street 1776 Adamandi American Idiot American Psycho Anastasia Applause Bare: A Pop Opera Beetlejuice Be More Chill Billy Elliot the Musical Bonnie and Clyde Bye Bye Birdie Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Cinderella (Rodgers and Hammerstein) City of Angels Damn Yankees Dear Evan Hansen Death Note: The Musical Evita Fosse A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum Grease The Guy Who Didn't Like Musicals Hallelujah, Baby! Heathers Holy Musical B@man! How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying Jersey Boys Jesus Christ Superstar Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat Kiss Me, Kate Kiss of the Spider Woman La Cage aux Folles The Lightning Thief A Little Night Music Man of La Mancha Memphis Monty Python's Spamalot The Mystery of Edwin Drood A New Brain Nine The Pajama Game Passion The Prom The Scarlet Pimpernel Singin' in the Rain Six South Pacific Starship A Strange Loop Sunday in the Park with George Sunset Boulevard Tanz der Vampire / Dance of the Vampires Thoroughly Modern Millie Tick Tick Boom Titanic The Trail to Oregon! Tuck Everlasting Two Gentlemen of Verona Urinetown The Will Rogers Follies The Wizard of Oz (1987)

Division C

& Juliet 21 Chump Street 35MM: A Musical Exhibition 1789: Les Amants de la Bastille Aida Allegiance Amélie Annie Get Your Gun Anything Goes The Art of Pleasing Princes Bandstand Beauty and the Beast Big Fish Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson Carousel Carrie The Color Purple Contact The Count of Monte Cristo Dogfight Dracula, the Musical Dreamgirls Elisabeth Evil Dead: The Musical Finding Neverland Frankenstein: A New Musical The Frogs Funny Girl Godspell Groundhog Day Gypsy Hedwig and the Angry Inch Jane Eyre The Last Five Years Lizzie The Lord of the Rings Love in Hate Nation Love Never Dies The Mad Ones The Magic Show Mary Poppins Mean Girls Merrily We Roll Along Miss Saigon Mozart! Oklahoma! Oliver On the Town Ordinary Days Parade The Pirate Queen Preludes Pretty Woman The Prince of Egypt Priscilla, Queen of the Desert Rebecca Roméo et Juliette: de la Haine à l'Amour The Secret Garden Seussical She Loves Me Shrek the Musical Starry Wonderland You're A Good Man Charlie Brown

Division D

13: The Musical Ablaze The Act Ain't Misbehavin An American in Paris Anne & Gilbert Anyone Can Whistle Av. Larco Back to the Future the Musical The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas Big River Bran Nue Dae Bright Star Bring It On Calvin Berger Caroline, or Change Clown Bible Crazy for You De 3 Biggetjes The Dolls of New Albion Dorian Gray The Drowsy Chaperone The Fantasticks Fiorello! Fly by Night Follies Frankenstein (Wang Yeon Beom + Brandon Lee) Hans Christian Andersen Hoy no me puedo levantar In Transit Jagged Little Pill Jerome Robbins' Broadway Kimberly Akimbo King's Table Kismet Lady Bess La Légende du roi Arthur Le Passe-Muraille / Amour Le Roi Soleil Les Parapluies de Cherbourg The Light in the Piazza Made in Dagenham Magic Tree House: The Musical Mentiras el musical Notre-Dame de Paris Once Upon A Mattress On Your Feet! The Story of Emilio & Gloria Estefan Phantom (Yeston & Kopit) Raisin Redhead Sarafina! School of Rock The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (1964) Seven Brides for Seven Brothers Show Boat Sidd Siete veces adios Soldaat van Oranje The Spitfire Grill Starlight Express Starmania / Tycoon Tarrytown The Threepenny Opera / Die Dreigroschenoper Timéo Wiedzmin The Wild Party (Lippa) The Woman in White Wonderful Town [title of show] Émilie Jolie

[chariom-inactive]

staring at you with big autistic eyes what musicals do you think the rest of the young justice crew would like

sorry i took awhile to respond because,,, big state test (my brain exploded but i'm ok now) anyways,, musicals!!!

kon

the lion king

cats

chicago

overall i think he's a big fan of musicals that just kind of,,, don't translate well to screen format (see into the woods, as well!). like stuff that's so overtly theatre it's hilarious. kon and cassie have a lot of overlapping taste imo (cause kon likes the theatrics and cassie,, is a theatre kid)

bart

oklahoma

footloose

cats

overall, big fan of musicals with lots of dancing numbers (so stuff like west side story & newsies would also be a lot of fun for him!) and anything from the 80s cause,, i hc that he's a big fan of the 80's that's all. probably overlaps with kon because a lot of the theatrical stuff has big dance numbers.

tim

phantom of the opera

west side story

company

overall, tim is a big fan of the really dramatic and sad musicals - les mis, perhaps. also stephen sondheim is his KING. in his opinion stephen sondheim never misses. he's simply better, simply built different.

cassie

the pjo musical

rent

urinetown

basically, think of any musical you've ever seen. cassie LIKES IT. she was that hamilton kid. she was the deh kid. she was all of it. she's soo cringe. new favorite rn is probably hadestown for her though!!!

cissie

les miserables

waitress

mamma mia

overall, her taste is really basic cause she's not a theatre kid.

greta

creepy. she is stage tech anyways she likes

ride the cyclone

the sound of music

wicked

overall she likes a lot of the magical-nonsense stuff involved. anything involving kid protags is fun for her.

anita

wicked

six

little shop of horrors

overall, anita is a big of any musical with big belty mezzo roles, so a fuckton of modern-day musicals. she will sing it. she also like a lot of the darker musicals, but with a lot of humor!

slobo

beetlejuice

the rocky picture show

six

overall likes a lot of the musicals with darker humor like cabaret and chicago, if that makes sense? like that kind of crude musical with big fun numbers.

traya (*BONUS*)

evita

frozen on broadway

west side story

overall, happiness and true love. she loves stories about true love.

[annikuh]

the other day, my Spotify played one of my favorite songs from Urinetown and I just broke down and cried LOL. I’m scared that now that I’m done with school, I’m gonna regret not auditioning for it. like there was no practical way I could’ve done the show, even now, but still that has not stopped me from regretting things before.

I think my big issue rn is that I’m convinced I’m missing my window to play a lot of my dream roles, and convinced I’m never gonna be able to do theater again. I was like “that’s it I guess, I’m never gonna be able to play little Sally, I’m aging out” as if my entire typecast isn’t “precocious child” and every role on my resume isn’t a child or teenager. & I’m acting as if nobody’s ever gonna do these popular shows ever. Like nobody’s ever gonna do Urinetown again? no one’s ever gonna do Carrie again?

I’ll be fine, and I know I’ll be fine, but the demons continue to torment me LMAO

[funkyyusername]

i miss urinetown so here are some little sally character notes i made while i was little sally so i can cope

- she really likes flowers

- like she can look at a flower and immediately name it

- “oh thats a diphylleia grayi” “a what”

- due to the water shortage though there isn’t a lot of greenery

- so she usually just draws flowers everywhere any chance she gets

- “give me your arm real quick :3” she says holding a pen having only malice intent behind those big eyes of hers

- she also reads a lot

- not because she likes it but because lockstock just gives her a bunch of books and she has nothing better to do

- i like to think that on like christmas or smth the poor give her like really run down beaten up toys that could give the average child nightmares

- while lockstock just walks up with a bag of books

- not even childrens book but like whole ass college textbooks

- “idk what kid read these days but i like this”

- little sally is too nice to say anything about it

- this is why she knows what metaphysical means

- mcqueen…. (red angry face with fist up)

- i don’t even know what mcqueen could have done to her she just really hates him

- maybe that one time he didn’t give her a coin really fucked her up

- “one time” it was probably multiple times

- mcqueen probably called her a slur too, before like spitting on her idk

- she’s actually pretty prone to violence

- like she would definitely beat someone up if they wronged her

- the only reason she was so against killing hope is one, in her eyes hope didn’t do anything wrong and two, bobby lovesssss her

- she looks up to bobby a lot

- this is mostly because bobbys like the only character that isn’t completely stupid

- thats not true penny has a bunch of braincells in there

- but penny is scary

- omg theres also her lore with lockstock

- infodumping lockstock and sally’s entire lore

- little sally had pretty neglectful parents

- she was an accident baby and her parents were really suffering from the water shortage so they paid no attention to her

- lockstock met little sally when she was around six and lockstock was still pretty new to his job

- little sally has a big mouth and so one day while talking to lockstock she just casually brings up the fact that her parents piss on the pavement daily

- lockstock of course took action to it and took her parents to urinetown

- BUT but since lockstock was so new to the job he hadn’t fully realized what urinetown was until he was in the middle of bringing sallys parents to urinetown

- so now lockstock feels guilt for killing sally’s parents which is why he acts like such a parent to her

- and also why sally feels pretty safe during the whole rebellion

- i think post tell her i love her little sally joined the rebellion half because she believed in it and also half because she knew that lockstock wouldn’t hurt her

- bro is manipulative

- it wasn’t until she saw bobby literally be thrown off a building where she became scared of lockstock

- it was there when she decided to cut all ties with lockstock

- “oh but don’t they meet up at the end” LET ME TELL YOU

- so you know how after hope is like “yes go pee for free my pookies” the water becomes bad and everyone dies

- because little sally isn’t with lockstock anymore she isn’t protected by the narrative

- SO SHE DIES TOO

- LITTLE SALLY IS DEAD

- so the whole conversation lockstock had with little sally was all a hallucination in lockstocks head

- i guess for lockstock to cope with basically losing the person he considered his daughter

- whoops this turned sad

- little sally braids bits of her hair out of boredom

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i miss urinetown……. when me (barrel), fipp and millennium died in we’re not sorry, we wore sunglasses. our teacher said we could keep them and i’ve been wearing them on my head ever since

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My school has an audition for Urinetown. I could sing (at least I hope so) just nothing too high or too low. Is there any songs that I could use that would fit or get me a role?

Hey - so exciting! Depends on what role you are going for but some very general suggestions by voice type…

Soprano:

The One Feathered Tail of Miss Gertrude McFuzz from Seussical

For the First Time in Forever from Frozen

Never Fall in Love with an Elf from Elf

Alto:

Right Hand Man from Something Rotten!

I Speak Six Languages from Spelling Bee

I Want the Good Times Back from The Little Mermaid

Listen to Your Heart from Young Frankenstein

Tenor:

Bottom’s Gonna Be On Top from Something Rotten!

One Step Closer from The Little Mermaid

Grow for Me from Little Shop

You’ll Be Back from Hamilton

Bass:

Me from Beauty and the Beast

Freeze Your Brain from Heathers

Wonderful from The Wizard of Oz

Hope this helps a little!

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urinetown stoner headcanons

it's less than a month to the show and im going fucking nuts. i drove two and a half hours today on a whim. to pick up a toilet seat that my parents didn't need anymore for props. headcanons below the cut >:)

bobby: like i said, he's definitely eaten half a pan of brownies thinking they were normal. he spent an hour trying to scrub a stain off of the side of the amenity until he was told it was spray paint. then he walked to hope's place and started crying about stray cats and how he wanted to adopt them all. he slept for thirteen hours and refuses to admit the incident ever happened.

penny: made the pan of brownies. she does edibles sometimes to destress and decompress and can you blame her? penny on weed becomes the most anarchic, careless person in the best way possible. go piss for free. she doesnt give two flying fucks. the world sucks. commit crimes. just do it. see you in urinetown. bobby once asked her if he could have a raise while she was baked and she said yes and regrets it every single day.

lockstock: listen, ok. i have my heart set on the idea that lockstock is fully aware that his career and position in society is ultimately more of a detriment than it is an aid. i think that knowing this bugs him (arguably). that being said, i think he does smoke, if not for pain management then to fucking forget about how awful everything is. i think the people he's killed weigh on his conscious and smoking a fat j turns that off for a little while. that man will lay on the couch with a bowl of pretzels and watch whatever's on tv until he falls asleep.

barrel: the opposite of lockstock. he's convinced he's helping and maintaining order in society. he likes abiding by the rules. so when he bums a cigarette off of lockstock and it turns out to be a blunt, he immediately gets so paranoid. lockstock has to calm him down because barrel is being SO loud and bro we are going to get caught. like 30 seconds after he calms down and eats something, he passes the fuck out on the couch bc its some strong ass ptsd indica. he very begrudgingly acknowledges that it did make him feel better and that he did sleep well. now, sometimes, after a bad day, him and lockstock share a joint.

cladwell: bro smoked so much pot before the stink years but then he rose to power and imposed laws that made it illegal and thinks he's The Shit for doing it. everyone's fucking pissed he did.

hope: little becky offered her a very special tasting gummy bear once and it was some mad sativa. hope did not shut up. for three hours. all she talked about was how she missed bobby. and how spaghetti was so good. then someone put on cartoons and she was absorbed like an ipad kid on an 8 hour flight.

fipp: would not do weed now but has done it in the past. nightmare blunt rotation. he just talks about politics. and not the good kind. it's terrifying. get that man away from me.

mcqueen: same as fipp but he gets like. scared. i think mcqueen knows deep down that what he's doing is wrong, but he constantly ignores it, so when he's high all that bubbles to the surface and he gets really wishy-washy about what he's saying. honestly i think it would be really funny to watch.

little becky two shoes: rolls the craziest blunts. the tesseract joint isn't beyond her skills. got pissed when she found out she was pregananate because she couldnt smoke weed anymore bc she wants her kid to be healthy. little becky knows where to get the good shit. she's dealing like fucking jesse pinkman from breaking bad.

hotblades harry: same boat as becky minus the pregnant part. they have competitions for who can roll the best joint like it's a cup stacking contest. people bet money. that man has smoked more weed than you ever will. his house is almost constantly hotboxed. hotblades harry more like hotboxed harry.

bonus:

old man strong has taken some mad edibles for hip pain.

little sally is a child so shes not on this list but i will be damned if she doesnt constantly bug lockstock about the funny cigarette she saw him smoke once

after urinetown they still use the secret hideout but it's just for smoke sessions. it's just a blunt rotation. it's comfy now, they made it comfy. they added lights.

[notebookmusical]

Hi! I'm so sorry I haven't replied in so long! Sorry if this is a shorter ask and I miss some things from a while ago. How are you? I've been okay and just distracted but I still always read your posts. I'm so sorry that you got Tendinitis and have had trouble with doctors about your anxiety or pain. That sounds awful and I hope your wrists aren't hurting as bad anymore. Sending love and hoping you're a little better by now...ugh. How was your Halloween? I saw you dressed up your dog which is cute. I didn't do anything this year though and it pretty much felt like just another day but maybe that's cuz it's only a day lol.

For the playbills, I liked all of the newer shows..like Outsiders, The Notebook, and Gatsby had some cool designs. All of the Moulin Rouge and Wicked designs were cool and different too. I really liked them all so it would be hard to pick favorites and I haven't looked in a while either. What about you? I don't know when I am going to listen to Urinetown but hopefully soon. R and J..I've seen mostly good things from audiences and clips but I guess I get why critics wouldn't like it if it's trying to be too woke or something, for lack of a better word. I also saw that one person plays both her mother and father, which could be confusing. I heard part of a song Rachel sings in it but can't say anything else about the music. Haha omg I didn't even think of how it's Sondheim vs Andrew Lloyd Webber! Lol wow..definitely team Sondheim and ALW is just okay. I also just think Gypsy is more interesting with a better cast, but I will listen to Sunset eventually. I do like Nicole's voice, but going up against Audra will be hard to beat in my opinion. I did read a bit about the staging and how it's very empty and minimal and I agree..just cuz I don't see the point but maybe it only works with a few shows and I know some people loved this show. I was also surprised the actor actually walks in the street during the song Sunset Boulevard in this performance.

It totally makes sense why you love the Notebook so much..it just feels so you at this point and it makes sense why it resonates with you cuz it has beautiful soft music and a touching story. I watched parts of it again and I liked it more. I think I wanna go back was one of the best songs and parts to watch. The older actors were great since they don't sing as much, but I don't feel like I have to watch the show..I can just listen to the cast album. I am excited for the rain scene and seeing it on tour though. That's why I was hoping to feel a little more emotional but I have also seen the movie a lot..I can't believe you've only seen it once. I do agree with the quote Ryan Vasquez said that you posted and it's great to see why you and others connect with it. We all have different musicals we connect to and I guess mine is just Outsiders but it's still my second favorite. No pressure to get to it, but I will say that I did not love Outsiders right away either. In fact, if you read the book and watch the movie first, you might be more skeptical, which is how I was at first. If I did not give it a second chance..I would've just found it okay lol and now it's one of my favorites. So just try to be open minded to the music and changes I guess. I think I'm biased cuz I personally like how Ponyboy is played more in the musical compared to the movie and it helped me connect even more to the character and that part of myself so it helped me rediscover my love for the character and story overall. That's a big part of it I think so I'm curious what you would think, being unfamiliar with the story at first. I also don't want you to have great expectations lol cuz of how I think or feel about it.

So when I finally finished Merrily, I enjoyed it a lot more. I admit I had to rewatch the beginning after because of the timeline and stuff I just couldn't remember and that helped a lot in following the story. My sister said she could understand that it was a flop cuz the timeline was confusing but it also made it more interesting and this production made it work. Like I was surprised Franklin Shepherd inc was one of the first songs lol but makes sense of course. We were confused when his first wife was singing Not a day goes by..I thought Mary sang that song and we barely knew who she was. It all made sense by act two of course and Mary sang part of it in act two lol. I think I preferred most of act one compared to act two but that's also the part I rewatched and I liked all those songs. It's also where the drama is haha. I think the cast all had great performances and it almost seemed like Lindsay was doing the most obvious acting at first. Anyway I would probably place it in the middle compared to other Sondheim musicals..like it seemed pretty similar to Follies and Company in a way, but I think I like those more. If I get more familiar with it, it could change. My favorite songs were Old Friends, Franklin Shepherd inc, Not a day goes by, Opening Doors and Good thing Going. I did find it interesting that neither the opening or closing song was as memorable as other songs. Wow I know I said it was going to be a short ask but I think I'm still gonna split this up in part 1 and 2 since it got pretty long still.

hello friend!! so sorry this is delayed — i meant to reply last week after i saw the wicked tour and then i got sick (surprise surprise) and then there was the bomb cyclone and ANYWAYS this is super super delayed and i'm sorry! i hope you've been doing well 🤍

my wrists are doing a bit better now! i haven't been doing a lot of crafts lately, which has helped — i think i probably won't be making more bracelets for eras (i've got around 60 so far) which is kind of a bummer because i have so much supplies left over but that's okay; there will be other occasions for bracelet making & i can use some of it for other crafts in the future. my halloween was good! very chill and cozy! and yes — i always make a big thing out of totoween but have never really been one for celebrating halloween itself!

how have you been? what's new in your life? my friend went and saw r+j a few weeks ago and despite loving the cast, actually didn't love it as a whole (and said that it felt very poorly directed, which wasn't super surprising to me). i'm a much bigger sondheim girlie than i am an andrew lloyd webber one, and i really like the gypsy cast. i'm still waiting to hear what people thought of gypsy; i had a couple friends who went to first preview (and i am very jealous of all of them) and i'm really intrigued to see how everyone's performances grow / shift during previews! and in addition to the gypsy cast being filled with people who i love, they also apparently have a REAL SET. ugh i love sets. i'm so glad we have a show on broadway with a real set haha.

honestly, i think with the notebook, everyone’s acting is just phenomenal, especially maryann as older allie! i really like the rain scene (as does most people) and i’m super intrigued to see how they’ll do it on tour — and the logistics that go into preparing for it. i have not picked up a book in a hot minute, so i do not think it is likely that i’ll be reading the outsiders before the month is over but … soon… hopefully. i did at least hunt down a bootleg of it, so we’re a step closer to me watching it in that sense.

i’m really glad you liked merrily! i just loveeeeee it. i’m really intrigued to know if the movie is still happening; i feel like i haven’t heard anything about it (and also do think that a 20-year filming period is really risky). franklin shepard, inc is soooo fun, i love singing it around the house!