Saturday evening we attended a performance of Urinetown: The Musical at Derby Dinner Playhouse in Clarksville, which is celebrating 50 years in existence; long may they prosper. The show runs until March 30.
Urinetown: The Musical is a satirical comedy musical that premiered in 2001, with music by Mark Hollmann, lyrics by Hollmann and Greg Kotis, and book by Kotis. It satirizes the legal system, capitalism, social irresponsibility, populism, bureaucracy, corporate mismanagement, and municipal politics. The show also parodies musicals such as The Threepenny Opera, The Cradle Will Rock and Les Misérables, and the Broadway musical itself as a form.
The performance was wonderful, the buffet fare better than I expected, and Derby Dinner offers 12-ounce bottles of Sierra Nevada Pale Ale for five bucks. All well and good, and we need to attend more often.
But in the final analysis, when ya gotta go, ya gotta go — especially if you’re a professional beer drinker. Here’s a previously published column in consideration of the pissoir, and other vital topics pertaining to the handling of beer rentals.
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“Let me tell you something about beer: You can never buy beer, you can only rent it.”
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