Urinetown comes to town
By Rose Schapiro, ’09
Photography by Dan Dry
Number of students who tried out for University Theater’s winter-quarter production of Urinetown:
54
Students cast in the play:
18
Hours the cast rehearsed over eight weeks:
136
Number of times UT performed the play for a paying audience:
6
Performances in the 2001 musical’s original Broadway run:
965
Price of admission to all UT shows:
$6
Total performances staged by UT during winter quarter:
15
Students working on the Urinetown staff and design crew:
15
Chicago theater professionals aiding the production:
7
Scheduled UT workshops with Urinetown writers Greg Kotis, AB’88, and Mark Hollmann, AB’85:
1
Tony Awards the show was nominated for in 2001, the year it premiered on Broadway:
10
Tonys won:
3
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