Behind the Curtain Study Guide

Encores! Urinetown

Recommended for grades 9 – 12 

This study guide for Urinetown strives to enrich your audience experience and deepen connections to our production, whether you’re sitting in our theater or engaging from across the country. It includes activities for the classroom, additional context on the show, and a behind-the-scenes interview.

This Behind the Curtain Guide was created by New York City Center's Education & Community Engagement department as a part of our mission to create exemplary, inclusive, responsive, and participatory artistic explorations inspired by City Center’s mission and performance offerings. To learn more about our work, please click here.

Table of Contents

Activities

Literary & Theatrical Devices

Creators & Characters

Interview with the Creators

Special Events for Urinetown

Community Night

What makes a city become a Urinetown? Find out in a post-show conversation with the Ali Forney Center, Open House NY, and Tanner Barr. Bring your civic mind to this discussion on New Yorkers’ access to resources like water, housing, public spaces, and, of course, restrooms. 

Fri Feb 14 at 7:30pm

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ASL Interpreted Performances

One signed performance will be offered for each production in the Encores! series, as well as the annual gala presentation. Tickets in view of the interpreters are $50 (plus a $3 facility fee per ticket) for all productions. Seats will be in Orchestra house right, which is the best view to ASL interpreters and the stage.

Urinetown
Thu Feb 13 at 7:30pm

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Encores!

Urinetown is part of the Encores! series, helmed by Artistic Director Lear deBessonet, Producing Creative Director Clint Ramos, Music Director Mary-Mitchell Campbell, and VP & Producer of Musical Theater Jenny Gersten.

This series of concert stagings revisits the archives of American musical theater. Centered around The Encores! Orchestra, these revivals are produced with limited runs and rehearsal schedules, spotlighting the vocal talents of star-studded ensembles.

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