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Urinetown

Urinetown

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Status

Released

Release Date

Sep 20, 2001

Runtime

2h 10m

Genres

Music, Comedy

User Score

77%

Original Title

Urinetown

Production Companies

The Araca Group, The Dodgers, TheaterDreams, Inc.

Director

John Rando

Description

In the not-so-distant future, a terrible water shortage and 20-year drought has led to a government ban on private toilets and a proliferation of paid public toilets, owned and operated by a single megalomaniac company: the Urine Good Company. If the poor don’t obey the strict laws prohibiting free urination, they’ll be sent to the dreaded and mysterious “Urinetown.” After too long under the heel of the malevolent Caldwell B. Cladwell, the poor stage a revolt, led by a brave young hero, fighting tooth and nail for the freedom to pee “wherever you like, whenever you like, for as long as you like, and with whomever you like.”