CURTAIN CALL: Around the world in Philly plays

Each week, Michael Gold breezes past those big-name theater companies to turn a spotlight on Philly's indie stages. This week: Two trips to Ireland, a misguided soprano at Center City Theater Works and pay-to-pee bathrooms at Drexel.

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CURTAIN CALL: Around the world in Philly plays

POSTED: Wednesday, May 2, 2012, 3:00 PM

Despite what its Apatow-like title suggests, Urinetown is more clever satire than raunchy comedy. After 20 years of drought, a massive corporation controls public toilets and ensures people pay to pee. In the background is a treacly Broadway love story between a rebel and the heiress to the corporate throne. Everything seems conventional until the musical takes a major twist, turning its lampooning on both capitalism and musical theater itself. The Drexel Players’ production, directed by Mauckingbird’s Peter Reynolds, promises the usual biting hilarity on the college stage. Bathroom use is free.

May 4-13, $15, Mandell Theater at Drexel University, 33rd and Chestnut streets, 215-895-2787, drexelplayers.com.

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