2004 MTC Schedule - Urinetown

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2004 MTC Schedule - Urinetown Oct 1, 2003 22:59:06 GMT 11

Post by nadine on Oct 1, 2003 22:59:06 GMT 11

The highlight on the Melbourne Theatre Company schedule is the return to the musicals - damn both STC and MTC have musicals next year *sigh* - Lisa McCune returns to the MTC for the first time since Into the Woods in 1998.

Anyway MTC got the rights to one of the hottest Broadway shows "Urinetown".

www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/09/30/1064819913689.html

www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/09/30/1064819913686.html

Courtesy of the above The Age article:

Urinetown, the Musical has been showing on Broadway for three years, where it has won numerous prizes, including two Tony Awards.

MTC director Simon Phillips says the play's title is part of its spoof of big-city greed and corruption in the middle of a drought.

McCune (who is due to give birth to her second child this week) plays the rebellious daughter of a magnate who has the monopoly of all privatised toilets in a city where private urination has been banned.

"You have to pay to pee at the end of the day," Phillips says. "It is a satire of an ecological disaster, as well as a send-up of other musicals."

Others in the cast are Shane Bourne, Rhonda Burchmore and Christen O'Leary.

"It's very cute actually... sometimes they do pretendy yelling at each other".
Helen Dallimore on Peter Carroll & his daughter Tamsin starring in "The Republic of Myopia" as father and daughter.

MotS - Oompa-pa from Oliver!

PoS character - Belle, from Beauty and the Beast

Talissa Director Almighty cough evil cough moderator Posts: 2,324	2004 MTC Schedule - Urinetown Oct 2, 2003 2:33:37 GMT 11 Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Talissa on Oct 2, 2003 2:33:37 GMT 11 You say STC has a musical next year. Do you know what it is? And it looks like this is something I'm going to have to see, or else some of my friends just might murder me ~Julia
	~And when he saw her face In his heart there was space For none. No other but she~ Parade of Stars character - Marguerite, from The Scarlet Pimpernel Medley of the Stars song - L'Un Vers L'Autre, from Les Miserables

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2004 MTC Schedule - Urinetown Oct 2, 2003 9:59:41 GMT 11

Post by nadine on Oct 2, 2003 9:59:41 GMT 11

Talissa said:

You say STC has a musical next year. Do you know what it is?

If you see if the STC schedule thread it mentions it.

"The Republic of Myopia" is a musical which imo sounds hilarious - it'll be making its world premiere during the Sydney Festival in January and stars an unbelievable cast including Mitchell Butel, Melissa Jaffer, Genevieve Lemon, William Zappa and the two Carrolls

That's the cast they have listed in the brochure so fingers crossed they stay with it - Peter, William and Genevieve are pretty much the confirmed ones.

The same cast will also be performing in Harbour, which is an Australian play also making its world premiere during the Sydney Festival.

Nadine

"It's very cute actually... sometimes they do pretendy yelling at each other".
Helen Dallimore on Peter Carroll & his daughter Tamsin starring in "The Republic of Myopia" as father and daughter.

MotS - Oompa-pa from Oliver!

PoS character - Belle, from Beauty and the Beast

Talissa Director Almighty cough evil cough moderator Posts: 2,324	2004 MTC Schedule - Urinetown Oct 2, 2003 11:14:47 GMT 11 Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Talissa on Oct 2, 2003 11:14:47 GMT 11 gossipcom said: If you see if the STC schedule thread it mentions it. Silly me ~Julia
	~And when he saw her face In his heart there was space For none. No other but she~ Parade of Stars character - Marguerite, from The Scarlet Pimpernel Medley of the Stars song - L'Un Vers L'Autre, from Les Miserables

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2004 MTC Schedule - Urinetown

Post by nadine on Oct 1, 2003 22:59:06 GMT 11

Post by Talissa on Oct 2, 2003 2:33:37 GMT 11

Post by nadine on Oct 2, 2003 9:59:41 GMT 11

Post by Talissa on Oct 2, 2003 11:14:47 GMT 11

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