Character Breakdown: URINETOWN Cast Unpacks Their Roles
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Feb 2, 2025
Rehearsals are now underway for Urinetown, which includes a star-studded cast featuring Jordan Fisher, Stephanie Styles, Rainn Wilson, Keala Settle, Christopher Fitzgerald, Greg Hildreth and more. Watch in this video as the cast unpacks their roles.
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It's a privilege to pee
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Water's worth its weight in gold these days. No more bathrooms like in olden days
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You come here and pay a fee for the privilege to pee
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Literally just left one town for another town, right? Yeah, I came on up out of the underground
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Yeah, I had a beautiful 14, almost, 15 months at Hades Town
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to go from one town to another. Basically playing the same track
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I mean, Bobby Strong is kind of Orpheus of this fictional town
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You can call him a rabble-rouser. You can call him a whatever. But ultimately, he's just a force for good
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And much like Orpheus, he sees the world the way that it should be. And he is gonna make that happen
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Regardless of what happens to him, something affects him early on, act one
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like changes his life. and then he's like born again with, you know, a new, new sight through hope
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And I think that like we all kind of go through, regardless of how funny it is
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regardless of like it very traditional musical theater construction we all go through things like that in life It might not be a fictitious town where you have to pay to pee
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but in a lot of ways we have to pay to pee
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And we know that we shouldn't be denied the right to pee
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when it's something that we have to do. So I just think that, like, it's incredible how
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Poignant. You're in town is right now. I hope it does well
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I hope it does well. I hope we get a run elsewhere
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I think that this show is so special. I'm having the time of my life
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I play Hope Cladwell, the daughter of Caldwell B. Gladwell, the head of Yerng Good Company
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or UGC, as it's known for short. And I fall in love with the leader of this rebellion and strike
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And so it's this beautiful Starcrest Lover story, and Hope really gets to go from
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this sense of kind of ignorant bliss to knowing who she is a person as a person and what she wants to do with her life in this world
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I play the villain of the piece, Caldwell Be Cladwell, and it's just a great classic villain role
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I mean it you he charming and sleazy and fun and ridiculous and over the top and and mustache twirling A couple of great song and dance numbers and it just it couldn be great fun
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And I remember seeing Yurintown on Broadway 20 some years ago and how incredible John Cullum was
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And his voice, of course, is, you know, world class. So I'm not going to be able to follow in those footsteps, but it's great
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to be in these villainous shoes. I play Miss Penelope Pennywise. She's the head of public amenity number nine
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in this made up place called You're in town. Well, I mean, yeah, sort of
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And she's a very empowering woman. She's also going to work hard
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whether it's the good side or the bad side. She's going to make it happen
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And you sort of see all of that transpire throughout the production, which is actually really fun for me. I love playing that
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I play Mr. McQueen, who is the villain's right-hand man, and I love about him that you don't
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ever have to smile You just look like you sucking on a lemon and that feels fun I hope I don get lines from it Botox I need Botox I about to play Little Sally
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I love her so much. She's actually so much like me, because she's a little bit sarcastic
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She's funny. She has a good time, and she definitely has, like, a bond with people
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So, yeah, like this one. Yeah, yeah. I play Officer Lockstock, who is
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enforcing the pay-to-pea law. He's typically a hard, hard person, maybe sometimes mean and scary
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but he really does have a soft spot for Little Sally, which is maybe the best thing about him, I think
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A shining world is just reason to sweat or anger or gladness
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just left me and play
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