'Urinetown' confidential: The untold story.

THE IDEA HITS ME IN PARIS

The idea for Urinetown first came to me during what might generously be described as a poorly planned trip to Europe during the late winter and early spring of 1995. At the time, I was performing with the Neo-Futurists, a Chicago-based experimental theatre company that was taking part in a theatre festival in a small Transylvania (believe it or not) town called Sibiu. On our return flight, I decided to extend an overnight layover in Paris and spend two weeks bumming around Western Europe by myself, to see the sights and also to try and decide whether I ...

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