Synopsis:
In a mad attempt to regulate water consumption, because of a water shortage the government in a Gotham-like town has outlawed the use of private toilets. The citizenry must use public, pay-for-use amenities owned and operated by the corrupt and iron-fisted Caldwell B. Cladwell played by John Cullum. Anyone who refuses to pay to pee is immediately and without question hauled off to Urinetown. Nobody knows exactly what happens in Urinetown. Those who are sent there are never heard from again. But it's really a love story and there's a revolution all before the end of Act I.