2025 Encores!

Urinetown

Best Availability: Feb 11 – 16!

Dates

Feb 5 – 16, 2025

Times

WEEK ONE | Feb 5 – 9, 2025
Wed – Fri 7:30pm
Sat 2 & 7:30pm* | Sun 2 & 7pm

WEEK TWO | Feb 11 – 16, 2025
Tue – Fri 7:30pm
Sat 2 & 7:30pm* | Sun 2pm

*note new time

Run Time

Approximately 2 hours and 30 minutes with one intermission

Program

To download a PDF of the program, click here.

Price

Tickets from $45 (fees included)

TOILETRIES DRIVE

Bring items to the theater to donate in support of New Alternatives, an organization that provides a range of services to help LGBTQ+ youth. Donation bins can be found in the Orchestra Lobby. Accepted Items: bars of soap, adult bath wipes, small hand sanitizers, hand and foot warmers, socks, lotion, and sanitary pads with wings. 

ASL Interpretation AvailabLe

Thu Feb 13 at 7:30pm
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Community Night

Fri Feb 14 at 7:30pm
What makes a city become a Urinetown? Find out in a post-show conversation with the Ali Forney Center, Open House New York, 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. 

Group Sales

Special Pricing for Groups
To book a group of 10 or more tickets, visit Broadway Inbound or call 866.302.0995.

About

More Than Toilet Humor

Biting satire and loving parody

New York Post

Smartly absurd

Newsday

In this side-splitting satire directed by Teddy Bergman (KPOP), a young hero played by Jordan Fisher (Hadestown) leads his community in a fight against oppression. Set in a dystopian world where water is scarce and “Hope” is even scarcer, all citizens must now pay a fee for “The Privilege to Pee” at one of the public facilities controlled by a selfish tycoon (Rainn Wilson of The Office) and monitored by authorities. But the citizens can only hold it in so much longer, and soon the poorest, filthiest of these facilities, run by the formidable Penelope Pennywise (Keala Settle of The Greatest Showman), becomes a “number one” site for major change.

With an incisive score by Tony winner Mark Hollmann, hilarious lyrics by Hollman and Tony winner Greg Kotis, and a plot with thrilling twists and turns, Urinetown is an “audacious and exhilarating” (The New York Times) take on the classic story of a ragtag group of underdogs coming together against a corrupt power. In this Tony-winning musical, nothing is safe from criticism — capitalism, politics, the establishment, the anti-establishment, and even musical theater itself!

Dates

Feb 5 – 16, 2025

Times

WEEK ONE | Feb 5 – 9, 2025
Wed – Fri 7:30pm
Sat 2 & 7:30pm* | Sun 2 & 7pm

WEEK TWO | Feb 11 – 16, 2025
Tue – Fri 7:30pm
Sat 2 & 7:30pm* | Sun 2pm

*note new time

Run Time

Approximately 2 hours and 30 minutes with one intermission

Program

To download a PDF of the program, click here.

Price

Tickets from $45 (fees included)

TOILETRIES DRIVE

Bring items to the theater to donate in support of New Alternatives, an organization that provides a range of services to help LGBTQ+ youth. Donation bins can be found in the Orchestra Lobby. Accepted Items: bars of soap, adult bath wipes, small hand sanitizers, hand and foot warmers, socks, lotion, and sanitary pads with wings. 

ASL Interpretation AvailabLe

Thu Feb 13 at 7:30pm
Learn more and book tickets.

Community Night

Fri Feb 14 at 7:30pm
What makes a city become a Urinetown? Find out in a post-show conversation with the Ali Forney Center, Open House New York, 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. 

Group Sales

Special Pricing for Groups
To book a group of 10 or more tickets, visit Broadway Inbound or call 866.302.0995.

Video

  • Encores! Urinetown Highlights

    Videography: Bardo Arts/Alex Pearlman, Production Photography: Joan Marcus

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  • Inside Rehearsal: "Follow Your Heart"

    Videography: Bardo Arts/Alex Pearlman

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  • Inside Rehearsal: "Privilege to Pee"

    Videography: Bardo Arts/Alex Pearlman

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  • Urinetown | First Day with The Encores! Orchestra

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What if Greg Kotis and Mark Hollmann’s Parable is a Prophecy?

by Nina Slowinski

Today, climate change looms over our society as one of the most imminent health threats to humanity. The frightful likelihood that we are closer to living in a Urinetown reality is ever present in my conversation with the brilliant Tony Award-winning writing duo, Mark Hollmann (left, Music & Lyrics) and Greg Kotis (right, Book & Lyrics), about the New York City Center Encores! revival.

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In the Press

Critic's Pick: Review: Urinetown Review: More Than Toilet Humor

Biting satire and loving parody

New York Post

Smartly absurd

Newsday

Artists

Cast & Credits

Encores!

Urinetown is part of the 2025 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.

Thanks to you, 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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Encores! Urinetown Merch

Check out our exclusive merch offering for Encores! Urinetown. You can visit us at the City Center Shop in the Orchestra Lobby, or browse online.

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The Tony-honored Encores! series has kept the archives of American musical theater alive for theater lovers like you to come together and share a love of song and dance. Your gift today helps thousands of New Yorkers to experience these extraordinary musicals come to life once again on the City Center stage.

February 11 – February 16, 2025

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