SCENIC FLOW … URINETOWN 9/26/09

Alan, I have not mentioned the flexible use of the Airplane Stairs, the 3-step with platform unit, the subway and the manhole. Let me know how you might plan to use these for me to do a preliminary run sequence. Of course, all is subject to change. And, the “scenic elements” listed below are for your consideration.

1-0 Preshow

ACTION: Preshow. Shadow show.

SCENIC ELEMENTS: Silk (Fly Line), Toilet Profile, Back Lit. Preshow Projection

Prelude

1-1 Public Amenity #9

ACTION: Morning. Welcome to Urinetown, the Musical. Character Introduction. Conflict: Old Man Strong defies the law.

SCENIC ELEMENTS: Public Amenity Wall, Amenity Table. Eerie, Film Noire … back alley… Old Hells Kitchen … NY

Too Much Exposition

Urinetown

It’s a Privilege to Pee

Privilege (Lockstock’s Reprise)

1-2 Executive Offices of Urine Good Company

ACTION: Antagonist and Evil Corporation Intro. Black and White set up. Corportation of greed and corruption. Wallstreet. Mr. Monopoly. Hope, the fax/copy girl, meets the staff. Song and Dance musical.

SCENIC ELEMENTS: UGC Brushed Steel Sign (Fly line), Trick Rolling/Air Castered Dance Table, Revolve/ Vault lighted Display case of the Beauty and the Beast bottle of water, UGC sign for Subway.

Mr. Cladwell

1-3 Street – Night

ACTION: Transition. Night time.. Cops contemplate the journey to Urinetown. Bobby and Hope meet. The love interest. Protagonists.

SCENIC ELEMENTS: Bare Stage. Downlight pools of street light. Upper Above. Ghost of Old Man Strong and Tiny Tom appear. Fog from Subway.

The Cop Song

Follow Your Heart

1-4 Public Amenity #9

ACTION: Morning. New fee hike. Bobby takes control.

SCENIC ELEMENTS: Same as before. Look to the Sky… maybe a sense of looking to the sky?

Look at the Sky

1-5 Executive Offices of Urine Good Company

ACTION: The Bunny. Hope begins to doubt her father.

SCENIC ELEMENTS: Same as before. Trick Bunny out of the hat. Bunny slippers in desk.

Don’t Be the Bunny

1-6 Public Amenity #9

ACTION: The revolution begins. Hope is taken hostage. Finale.

SCENIC ELEMENTS: Same as before. Entire Stage. Les Miz flag. Pee Protest Signs “Pee Shall Overcome” “Pee For Free” “Piss Today Goodbye Cladwell” (Fly Line) , Strobe Lights

Act One Finale

INTERMISSION

ACTION:

SCENIC ELEMENTS:

2-1 Secret Hideout, Streets (Split Location)

ACTION: Everyone questions the meaning of Urinetown

SCENIC ELEMENTS 3-step/platform air caster unit. Entire stage … isolating different locations. Upper above Cladwell and Police. Below Secret Hideout.

What is Urinetown

2-2 Secret Hideout

ACTION: The Poor contemplatre killing Hope. Bobby arrives just in time. Penny convinces Bobby to meet with Claswell.

SCENIC ELEMENTS: Secret Hide Out Sign (Fly Line). 3-step/platform air caster unit. Hope is tied up on chair. Gospel number. Tamborines?

Snuff That Girl

Run, Freedom, Run

2-3 a Executive Offices of Urine Good Company

ACTION: Bobby is arrested, thus dooming his daughter as a hostage. Penny doubts her trust.

SCENIC ELEMENTS: UGC Sign, Revolving Light Box, Desk and Chair.

Why Did I Listen to that Man?

2-3 b On the Way to UGC Rooftop

ACTION: Transition OUT UGC IN Street

SCENIC ELEMENTS: Entire Stage. Follow spot the action. Police Bobby journey to Urinetown. Blindfolded and bound at the wrists. Fly OUT UGC

Why Did I Listen to that Man?

2-3 c UGC Rooftop

ACTION: Bobby realizes what Urinetown is. Pushed off the roof top.

SCENIC ELEMENTS: Fly IN UGC ½ WAY. Airplane blinking red light in top of spiral staircase upright pipe. Spiral stair case steps to platform. Bobby moving vertigo gobo as he falls? UGC sign flies OUT as Ground Row rusty tin flies IN. The back concrete wall is exposed. Projections?

2-3 d Secret Hideout

ACTION: Back to the Hideout. Hope questions her choices

SCENIC ELEMENTS: Secret Hideout sign lights up. Secret Hideout Sign IN

2-4 Secret Hideout

ACTION: Sally tells of seeing Bobby die. Penny is revealed as Hope’s mother. Hope takes charge.

SCENIC ELEMENTS: Ghost of Bobby. Secret Hideout Sign IN

Tell Her I love Her?

2-5a Secret Hideout

ACTION: Poor move out to seize UGC

SCENIC ELEMENTS: Secret Hideout Sign IN

We’re Not Sorry

2-5b Streets

ACTION: Transition

SCENIC ELEMENTS: Secret Hideout Sign OUT. Simultaneous Staging. Lights. Ghosts of Barrel, Fipp and Millennium enter.

We’re Not Sorry

2-5c Executive Offices of Urine Good Company

ACTION: Arrest Cladwell.

SCENIC ELEMENTS: UGC IN Probably no Desk. Maybe the BOBBY STRONG MEMORIAL TOILET AUTHORITY is projected on Silk. Maybe a poster of Bobby is placed over the window of the revolve unit. Finale. If we PROJECT on the silk a large photo of BOBBY with the Memorial … ,for the button of the Finale, we can cross fade to a picture of Malthus and then drop the silk on the cast.

We’re Not Sorry (Reprise) Cladwell

I See A River