From the Tony Award–winning team of Mark Hollmann and Greg Kotis comes Urinetown, a wickedly funny, razor-sharp satire of corporate greed, social irresponsibility, and musical theater itself. In a dystopian city plagued by drought, private toilets are outlawed and citizens must pay to use public amenities controlled by a powerful corporation. When a humble everyman sparks a revolution against the system, chaos and hilarity ensue as the boundaries between hero and villain blur.
Following its acclaimed off-Broadway premiere and celebrated Broadway run, this uproarious musical has become a modern classic, delighting audiences with its bold wit, unforgettable score, and subversive storytelling that challenges the conventions of the genre.
With music and lyrics by Mark Hollmann and Greg Kotis and book by Greg Kotis, this production is directed by De’Lon Grant and music directed by Bethany Aiken with choreography by Ramone Owens.
This performance has been selected as part of Boston Conservatory at Berklee’s 2025–2026 Center Stage collection.
Program Information
Director's Note
At the risk of sounding redundant, “Well, hello there. And welcome—to Urinetown!” Urinetown begins with that graciously unassuming salutation and ends with the most esoteric of farewells, “Hail Malthus!” That obscure reference could easily be overshadowed by the immense talent of this production’s cast, musicians, and designers, if not drowned out by the script’s ridiculous satire and brilliant pastiche. However, I would argue that it is, in fact, the backbone for why this show exists.
Thomas Robert Malthus was an eighteenth-century scholar and economist for whom the Malthusian theory was named. To bastardize his scholarship, the theory suggests that while populations can seemingly grow exponentially, critical resources to support those populations—land, food, water—are linear and limited, an imbalanced formula that breeds scarcity. That inevitable scarcity leads to increased inequality, famine, social unrest, war, and societal collapse.
Now, I’m not the best student of history, but how is it that we’ve been theorizing on the sociopolitical issue of resource scarcity since Malthus’s day, and despite all of our technological advancements and achievements—sending billion-dollar satellites into outer space, the atom bomb, the internet, driverless cars that don’t properly function—how is that we have not ensured that all of us, every person born, is guaranteed the critical resources we need to live?
Our production of Urinetown won’t exactly give the answer, but I hope it keeps the question alive. Hail Malthus!
Cast
OFFICER LOCKSTOCK – Jack Mintz
OFFICER BARREL – Aidan Cox
LITTLE SALLY – Maisie Doerr
PENNY PENNYWISE – Zoe Richard
BOBBY STRONG – Gilbert Dabady
OLD MAN STRONG – Brandon Howard
JOSEPHINE 'MA' STRONG – Hayden Lockhart
LITTLE BECKY TWO SHOES – Mika Wurf
HOT BLADES HARRY – Maxwell Tate
TINY TOM – Nate Scullion (dance captain)
ROBBIE STOCKFISH – Christopher Moody (U/S Caldwell B. Cladwell)
BILLY BOY BILL – Dante X Johnson
SOUPY SUE – Mia Hustad
HOPE CLADWELL – Brooke Wilkins
CALDWELL B. CLADWELL – Miki Grubic
SENATOR FIPP – Benji Godley-Fisher
MR. MCQUEEN – Ayden Weinstein (U/S Bobby)
MRS. MILLENNIUM – Ashley Ha
DR. BILLEAUX – Jack Terbush (U/S Hot Blades Harry)
ENSEMBLE – Sofia Daniel (U/S Pennywise)
ENSEMBLE – Emma McClain (U/S Josephine 'Ma' Strong)
ENSEMBLE – Abi Zellner (U/S Little Sally)
ENSEMBLE – Charley Baird-Hassell (U/S Lockstock)
ENSEMBLE – Lauren Benner (U/S Hope)
ENSEMBLE – Andre’a Condol
SWING – Brooke Webster
SWING – Grace Wilkerson
SWING – Hunter Hurt
Orchestra
Clarinet/Bass Clarinet – Julia Spretty (Boston Conservatory at Berklee)
Soprano/Alto Saxophones – Matthew Gaudio (Boston Conservatory at Berklee)
Trombone/Euphonium – Angus Tsui (Boston Conservatory at Berklee)
Percussion – Taylor Stanley (Berklee College of Music)
Bass – Jude Seiner (Berklee College of Music)
Piano/Conductor – Bethany Aiken
Production Credits
CREATIVE TEAM:
Director – De’Lon Grant
Music Director – Bethany Aiken
Choreographer – Ramone Owens
Associate Music Director – Cooper Sheehy
Assistant Director – Arav Anand
Assistant Choreographer – Heaven Williams
Fight and Intimacy Director – Brandon G. Green
Dramaturg – Helen Lewis-Michelson
Voice Coach – Rosie Ward
Scenic and Projections Designer – Justin Lahue
Lighting Designer – Rachel Harnad
Sound Designer – Aubrey Dube
Costume Designer – Chelsea Kerl
Assistant Costume Designer – Munroe Forbes Shearer
PRODUCTION STAFF:
Director of Performance Services – Hanna Oravec
Assistant Director of Production – Becca Donald
Stage Manager – Cam Sarchi
Assistant Stage Managers – Zachary Sayre, Ethan West
Technical Director – Taylor Kaufman
Assistant Technical Director – Caleb D. Harris
Costume Shop Manager – Alison Pugh
Wardrobe Manager – Blue Barber
Wardrobe Assistant – Sydni Furtado
Costume Stock Manager/Draper/Stitcher – Kathy Scott
Drapers/Stitchers – Sam Martin, Evan Petrow
Stitcher – Aryn Murphy
Costume Production Assistant – Jackie Olivia
Costume Shop Intern – Gavin Wills
Sound Supervisor – Andrei Radu
Audio Engineer/A1 – Maddy Poston
Audio Assistant/A2 – Kait Kelly
Lighting Supervisor – Jacob Inman
Production Electrician – Nate Morrissey
Props Manager – Hannah Spangler
Fly Console Operator – Thomas Fowler
Scenery Construction – Wooden Kiwi Productions, Waltham, Massachusetts
Production Technicians – Hannah Jope, Hazen Polsonetti, Morgan Rotman, Thomas Fowler, Vir Gupta, Paul Vekiarides, Derek Putnam, Buzz Korolenko, Hannah Ashe, Sami Parazin, Sandy Doll, Nick LaRosa, Mac Weaver, Adrian Vidan
TPP Professor – Cassie Seinuk
STUDENT PRODUCTION STAFF:
Student Assistant Stage Managers – Olivia Reitz
Production Assistants – Judah Woomer, Milo Darlington, Naman Kasana, Matt Logos, Victoria McDougall, Danny Hernandez, David Balough, Gavin Sexton, Isabelle Costanzo
Costume Assistants – Elizabeth Hillman, Clara Palmadottir, Ellie Sawyer
CONCERT SERVICES STAFF:
Assistant Director, Concert Services – Luis Herrera
Coordinator, Concert Services – Matthew Carey
Concert Production Manager – Kendall Floyd
Performance Technology Technicians – Sara Pagiaro, Goran Daskalov
Special Thanks
Berklee Physical Plant
Georgia Expo
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