Each individual day is doomsday in “Urinetown,” but that doesn’t end the locals from breaking into tune. Yep, you guessed it: the 2001 Broadway musical “Urinetown” is coming to, er, city, courtesy of the spring musical solid and crew at 50 % Moon Bay High School.
Director Tom Galvin first saw the dystopian satire when a nationwide touring organization carried out the participate in in San Francisco several yrs in the past. He explained he remembers liking the new music, which was published by Mark Hollmann. The lyrics ended up a collaboration in between Hollmann and Greg Kotis, who produced the script.
“There are earworms in it,” claimed Galvin. “You wander out variety of buzzing it and then you recognize you’re humming.”
Senior Efrain Virgen, who is becoming a member of the spring musical solid for the 1st time this yr, performs the character Little Tom. “I would say my favored component of the participate in is the music ‘Snuff That Woman,’” mentioned Virgen. “I acquire satisfaction in it.”
Dominic Katout appears as Officer Lockstock and likes “Why Did I Pay attention To That Person?”
“It’s a big second for Lockstock’s character, and it genuinely exhibits his inner colours and how far he’ll go,” mentioned Katout.
Ana Infanzón Marín performs Minor Sally, a character she described as a secondary narrator.
“Lockstock is more the narrator, and then Very little Sally will butt in and say
some thing like, ‘Wow, that positive is crazy!’ or ‘The upcoming scene is gonna be wild!’” Marín claimed she has a tender spot for the music “Tell Her I Like Her.”
The tone of the tunes is deceptively cheerful, but make no blunder: The lyrics spell out doom and gloom. Amongst the quite a few things the play denounces — capitalism, populism, forms, and so forth. — “Urinetown” satirizes the musical genre itself.
“Sometimes you will need to use an art kind to critique an art form,” stated Galvin. He included that “Urinetown” is far more pertinent than at any time. “The people in it obtain them selves in a predicament for the reason that of a enormous drought — so it is well timed,” he mentioned.
Backstage, set director Thomas Walrod agreed. “I feel the engage in applies to factors that are starting off to come about in Arizona,” he mentioned, referring to the state’s drinking water offer troubles.
Virgen, Katout and Marín also waxed pessimistic, indicating that the play’s references to h2o waste, law enforcement brutality and destructive capitalism will ring accurate with the viewers.
“Urinetown” will get the stage at Half Moon Bay Higher School, located at 1 Lewis Foster Push in 50 % Moon Bay. The shows operate March 17-19 and March 24-26. The Friday and Saturday performances get started at 7 p.m. and the Sunday reveals start off at 2 p.m. Tickets are offered on the internet at hmbhs.seatyourself.biz or at the door.