Urinetown

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BAOS Presents
'Urinetown'
Tuesday 9 - Saturday 13 April 2019

A sidesplitting sendup of greed, love, revolution (and musicals!), in a time when water is worth its weight in gold.

Urinetown is a hilarious musical satire of the legal system, capitalism, social irresponsibility, populism, bureaucracy, corporate mismanagement, municipal politics and musical theatre itself! Hilariously funny and touchingly honest, Urinetown provides a fresh perspective on one of America's greatest art forms.

A terrible water shortage, caused by a 20-year drought, has led to a government-enforced ban on private toilets. The citizens must use public amenities, regulated by a single malevolent company that profits by charging admission for one of humanity's most basic needs. Amid the people, a hero decides that he's had enough and pans a revolution to lead them all to freedom!

Urinetown Production Team

Barry Austin
Director

This is Barry's first show Directing for BAOS having been crazy enough to go to an interview for the job on the night of an England World Cup Game.

After an education in Performing Arts and then serving in Her Majesty's Armed Forces Barry decided to set up another Theatre company, Theatre Ink, in Swindow which performs at the new Barn Theatre in Cirencester. This was where he first produced Urinetown after a long seven-year wait for the amateur rights to be available. Having found out another group were doing the show, Barry jumped at the chance to get involved and go for it all over again as Urinetown is just a crazy, fun show to be involved in.

Having been blown away at the auditions, Barry is looking forward to getting to grips with the quirkiness of the show and working with a new Production Team. Barry has Directed and performed with other groups in the South West/East area but prefers the Directing role and thinks the audience do too!

Brendan Casey
Musical Director

Brendan is thrilled to be back in the band with BAOS after treading the boards as the title role in Jekyll and Hyde.

Urinetown will mark Brendan’s 16th show with the club having been in the engine room or onstage in equal measure. BAOS is a wonderful club to work with and he enjoys encouraging new talent especially through revues like the recently sold-out BAOS Goes Dark.

Brendan is active throughout the Southwest as a performer, teacher and Musical Director and has worked with BLOC, Tessitura, Bristol Opera, Horfield Theatre Co and NYTC.

Charlotte Rowlands
Choreographer

Charlie is thrilled to be choreographing Urinetown. Charlie has spent the majority of her life attending dance training and regularly appears in Bristol Amateur Dramatic performances.

Charlie has been in the BAOS family for nearly two years and has loved being part of such a talented group.

This will be her first time choreographing a full show for BAOS and Charlie can't wait to get started.

Urinetown Cast