{"id":4489,"date":"2006-11-30T13:28:00","date_gmt":"2006-11-30T18:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2006\/11\/30\/urinetown\/"},"modified":"2006-11-30T13:28:00","modified_gmt":"2006-11-30T18:28:00","slug":"urinetown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2006\/11\/urinetown\/","title":{"rendered":"Urinetown"},"content":{"rendered":"

ERIE, Pa. — Cathedral Prep High School in Erie, Pa., is taking a dim view of pee-pee.<\/p>\n

Students are staging a production of the Broadway hit, "Urinetown: The Musical."<\/p>\n

Erie Catholic Bishop Donald Trautman does not object to the play itself — but a diocesan spokesman said the bishop is concerned with the title "Urinetown" being connected publicly to the all-male Catholic high school.<\/p>\n

So, the student play will go unnamed.<\/p>\n

It would be a copyright violation to alter the show’s title. That means the high school must try to sell tickets to its upcoming school play without referring to its title — "Urinetown: The Musical."<\/p>\n

Posters and programs will also refrain from using the play’s name. The curtain goes up on the unnamed show Dec. 7 through Dec. 10.<\/p>\n

The Rev. Michael DeMartinis, director of the play, said he’s hoping people will come to see this play, which dare not speak its name.
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Well I guess the Bishop’s objection doesn’t matter much now that the story has hit the news. The play itself is about a drought-stricken future where urination is no longer free with songs like It’s A Privilege To Pee<\/a>. The title Urinetown is also pretty dumb and if you are going to make a musical on this subject matter why not call it Piddler on a Roof? One theater reviewer mentions this part<\/a> of the silly plot.<\/p>\n

When Bobby meets and falls in love with Hope, the daughter of UGC president Caldwell B. Cladwell, he is inspired to lead a charge against a proposed rate hike that would drive urination farther out of the bounds of the city’s poor.<\/p>\n

I guess this would make them piss poor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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