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face=Georgia>“Urinetown,” currently on stage at Blank Canvas Theatre, is not
your father’s musical.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>That is,
unless your father likes his theater marvelously askew, wonderfully irreverent
and with a terrible title. </FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face=Georgia><SPAN
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Kotis and composed by Mark Hollman</SPAN><SPAN lang=EN
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“Urinetown” is about corporate greed, political corruption and social revolution
– you know, typical musical comedy fare – and makes fun of the very theatrical
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face=Georgia>Director Patrick Ciamacco spreads himself thin by also serving as
lighting, sound and set designer, but he manages to find every humorous beat in
the script and the cast to play them.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
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