I saw Urinetown, the musical, yesterday. The best part of it was the price. I only paid 22.50 for a 90 dollar tickets. If you visit
tsoundcheck.com and are under 30 years old, then you can get really cheap tickets to musicals and symphonies. I'm on the prowl for some good symphonies now. According to my friend, they cost even less: 10 dollars!
Going into the theatre we saw
Tommy's ex girlfriend. He avoided her like the plague. They really didn't have a bad break up or anything. He's just the type to not make small talk, especially to an ex. We nicknamed her wrestler because the way she moved when she danced and how she had broad shoulders. It was mean of us, but completely typical. While they were dating, we even called it to her, at her. The sly thing about how we managed to do so was when one day she pulled her leg muscle, we said she seemed hurt, like how wrestler gets hurt (okay--we were grasping for straws to connect something). So she was limping around all day and we kept calling her wrestler, a double entendre. The really bad part (because she was nice) is that I can't even remember her real name.
The musical was good, not great. Even though it was my first musical, I know that it's not par with the best of 'em. It played detached self-analyzing comedy similar to the movie
Scream. It would point out characteristics of musicals, like
Scream and horror movies, and then continue to do exactly what it described.
A lot of the stage actors were understudies, so some parts were played well and others not so well. I really liked the roles played by officer Lock Stock and Little Sally. He had a commanding presence, which was needed for Officer Lock Stock, yet he could still be silly. Little Sally played the role of a little girl so well, I really thought she was a little girl. Having good lines didn't hurt them either. The leads had no character development and instead relied on generic archetypes that everyone was familiar with. But really -- I can't complain for 22 dollars.
