Citizens must pay a fee to use public urinals. If you cannot pay the "amenity fee," you are sent to the mythical, horrifying penal colony known as... . (The fact that no one has ever returned from Urinetown is the script's first running joke.)
The genius of the script is that within 90 pages, it cycles through the rise of a populist rebellion, the moral corruption of power, and a catastrophic twist ending that explicitly warns the audience to . urinetown the musical script
The Urinetown script is populated with a cast of archetypal characters who are given a delightfully perverse twist. The principal roles include: Citizens must pay a fee to use public urinals
MARK: In a world where the bottom line is all that matters, Where the rich get richer and the poor get... well, they get gutters, There's a place where desperation takes its toll, Urinetown, where the needy come to lose control. (The fact that no one has ever returned
Here is a script excerpt from the opening scene of Urinetown: