Urinetown - Blog Posts
Listening to Privilege to Pee on public transport lmao-
getting hit by Charlie's Inferno, Too Much Exposition and High Hopes in that order is truly a vibe like no other
my spotify shuffle:
"...but everyone's true colors are revealed in acts of lust~" "i'm not sure i follow-"
BUM BUM BUM BUM "WHAT IS URINETOWN? URINETOWN'S THE END! SWIFT AND BRUTAL PUNISHMENT NO NEED NOW TO PRETEND!"
HERE YE HERE YE
I have another proposal for the people to review!
T4T Josephine and Joseph.
Proshippers are NOT WELCOME on my blog. kindly fuck off
Why the fuck is there a proshipper in the Urinetown fandom get out of here we don't welcome you
Bobby: I’ve done a lot of dumb stuff.
Little Sally: I witnessed the dumb stuff.
Officer Lockstock: I recorded the dumb stuff
Josephine: I joined you in the dumb stuff.
Hope: I TRIED TO STOP YOU FROM THE DUMB STUFF!
The glass of waters been inside me all along⁉️ 😀
Like this post if you see a river flowing for freedom, just in view. Reblog this post if you are a river flowing for justice, straight and true
Reblogging because anything with Ma Strong mentioned immediately gets me <3
more urinetown headcanons!
ma strong knits.
unfortunately bobby is allergic to wool, and her husband is dead. so.
little sally gets the most charity bc shes a little girl and shes smart so she plays it up but can turn on a dime and kick a man in the shins if he doesnt give her money
nothing you tell me will convince me that little sally does not take immense joy in kicking rich people
hot blades harry and little becky two shoes should host a true crime podcast and then decide whether or not they could have gotten away with the same murder
bobby unironically listens to yodelling and shoegaze exclusively
tiny tom's favorite movie is cars 2
officer lockstock is really good at playing the kazoo
officer barrel plays the irish whistle
these talents, however, are both their respective most shamed secrets, so neither of them know about the other's musical talents
hope is a granola girl
she has the white stanley waterbottle
officer barrel is obsessed with lord of the rings
lockstock is a slight doomsday prepper and has a basement full of canned food and survival supplies
lockstock and barrel watched 12 angry men once together and barrel has never has a better day in his life
bobby strong is scared of children
oh my god someone give that man a kitten to take care of
the poor will collectively take care of each other. they share food, their homes, it's a very tight knit community.
cladwell always has jazz music playing on a record player in his office
hot blades harry cant sleep without a night-light
pennywise was really into candlemaking before the drought
barrel would let someone off the hook and spare them from urinetown in exchange for a puff off their joint
Yta
Your days are numbered Lockstock. You can’t hide forever.
aita for killing this lady's husband and son? they broke the law so I had to throw them off a building and now she wants to kill me. that's not fair :(
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
IM GOING TO BE THINKING ABOUT THIS FOREVER OH MY GOD
But on a similar note, I’ve always felt like tell her I love her is just such a beautifully poetic song, like sure, there’s the funny moments in it too, but at its core it’s what stirs Hope and the rebels into a full revolution. It’s Bobby’s last dying words to the people he tried so desperately to lead, to SAVE. One line that has always stood out to me specifically was “I’ve lost my sense of sight/and yet I see them” because AUGH isn’t that just so beautiful???? He’s ACTIVELY dying, his senses are failing him one by one but the people he cares so much about are the last thing he sees, and he still has so much hope for these people he JUST had to convince out of killing his girlfriend but he truly believes they can still do it and it just KILLS ME EVERY TIME.
That song has SO MUCH to it, and so do SO MANY OF THE OTHERS, and I just feel like they get looked over so often as “oh funny haha” which yea, but also!!! You can tell there was just so much thought put into this show when you get into it and istg at some point I wanna do a deep dive into the whole script because I feel like there’s a lot that gets missed
i don’t know of a urinetown community on tumblr, but there’s something i noticed on first listen that i can only pray reaches its target audience.
in act one, you get “follow your heart,” (the most gorgeous song in that show, but that’s another post) and every chorus in it ends with “if only you follow your heart.” in act two, during “tell her i love her,” little sally relays bobby’s last words as “if only…”, saying he expired before he could finish his sentence.
you follow your heart. bobby strong was trying to say “there still is hope, i see it in this land / if only you follow your heart.” ouch. i never saw the point in spending too much time on this detail until i was in the show, and i realized nobody else had noticed it.
urinetown is… dumb. yeah, it makes an enormous point about corporate greed and climate change, but it’s a music about peepee. there’s a REASON nobody reads into this nonsense— it isn’t super necessary to putting on a good production. there’s also the fact that so many urinetown lyrics (probably intentionally) are just there to make performers and consumers alike hear them and make a face. i’m completely here for it, don’t get me wrong, but is this one of those hidden nuggets of meaning?
do i need to go outside?
AUGH MY HEARTTTTT
tell her I love her
CLOSING NIGHT HAPPENED AND WE PISSED SO HARD FOLKS!!! WE ATEEEEEEE!!!!!!!
BEAUTIFUL HOPE ART
dancer hope cladwell. throws this at you and scampers away like a feral animal
i keep changing my usertag lmao-
will i ever stop? who knows! :D
Its cause they cut out Lockstock and Barrel being gay 😞
The cast recording of We're Not Sorry is only about 2 minutes???? idk why but I swore it was longer
so im in a production of Urinetown rn, right?
and saying good luck to other is obvi bad luck, so the classic substitution is "break a leg"
BUT MAY I PROPOSE
"Go piss girl!!!"
i feel like this would make an incredible (awful) cursed item-
like just any liquid you put in it has a 50/50 chance of either all the water immediately having all the water dry up (potentially useful if you want some sort of concentrate?), or just straight up turning into piss.
no inbetween
urinetown mug isn’t real, it can’t hurt you
urinetown mug:
I don't feel like Josephine gets enough love in this fandom, i love her so much what a supportive mom <3