Shenandoah Valley Governor's School Presents URINETOWN: THE MUSICAL, 1/21-1/24

This month, Shenandoah Valley Governor's School's theatre program will perform Urinetown, the award-winning, contemporary Broadway show at Stage4 in Verona. The show satirizes timely issues as its characters sing and dance about economic downfall, environmental destruction, and social injustice.

Urinetown: The Musical is a satirical comedy musical, with music by Mark Hollmann, lyrics by Hollmann and Greg Kotis, and book by Kotis. It satirizes capitalism, social irresponsibility, populism, bureaucracy, corporate mismanagement, and petty small town politics. It also is a satire of the Broadway musical as a form. In reverse pantomime style, the unconventional plotline shatters audience expectations of a pleasant ending. The show was produced Off-Broadway at the American Theatre for Actors and then moved to Broadway, opening at Henry Miller's Theatre on September 20, 2001 and closed on January 18, 2004, after 25 previews and 965 performances.

In a community partnership with ShenanArts, Urinetown, the Musical opens at Stage4 in Verona on January 21, 2010 and runs for four performances through January 24, 2010. Performances begin at 7:30 p.m. Thursday-Saturday with a 2:30 p.m. matinee on Sunday. Tickets are $16 for premium seats, $12 for general admission, and $8 for students and may be obtained by calling (540)248-1868. For more information about the show, visit www.shenanarts.org