URINETOWN

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Scott Brown
Scott Brown

Scott Brown writes the Hit List for EW and is a frequent contributor to National Public Radio -- he has the tote bag to prove it

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Published on October 19, 2001 04:00AM EDT

Relaxing into its new Broadway home and its own avowedly dingbat conceit (a faux-agitprop musical about a capitalist police state where citizens pay to urinate), the underground hit’s gallows humor and relentless literalism have taken on an elegiac quality. Grimly appropriate for the times and this town, Urinetown earns the dubious honor of being the perfect pee joke for a post-ideological age.

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