OBSERVER: Urinetown
CPP Community Theatre presents the satirical musical Urinetown from October 17 – 24 at the Performing Arts Centre, Rowville Secondary College (Eastern Campus).
Young, idealistic hero Bobby Strong leads his community in a fight against oppression.
Set in a dystopian not-so-distant future where Bobby meets Hope, where water is scarce and ‘Hope’ is even scarcer, all citizens must now pay a fee to use the public toilets controlled and monitored by a capitalist tycoon.
But, soon the poorest and filthiest of these facilities, run by Penelope Pennywise, becomes the ‘number one’ site for major change.
Nothing is safe from criticism — capitalism, politics, the establishment, the anti-establishment, the anti-anti-establishment, and even musical theatre itself! ,
Urinetown is directed by Mitchell E. Roberts, vocal musical direction is by Brodie Sainsbury-King, orchestral musical direction by Scott Huddleston and choreography by Molly Daley.
Performance Season: Oct 17, 22, 23, 24 at 8pm; Oct 18 at 5pm; Oct 19 at 2pm
Venue: Performing Arts Centre, Rowville Secondary College (Eastern Campus), Humphreys Way, Rowville
Tickets: $45/$40/$26. Family (2 adults and 2 children) $116. Group (10+ tickets) $40
Bookings: cppcommunitytheatre.com.au/
Note: In consideration of other patrons and cast, children under the age of three will only be admitted to the theatre for the matinee performance.
Cheryl Threadgold
Pictured: Darcy Olsen rehearses with the Urinetown cast.

