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AUBURN — Edward Little High School’s drama club will present “Urinetown The Musical” at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Nov. 15, and at 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 16, at Community Little Theatre, 30 Academy St.

The setting for Urinetown is a town that has been ravaged by drought for 20 years. And in an effort to reduce the consumption of water and keep all the town’s inhabitants alive, one has to pay to, you guessed it, pee. And if you disobey the urine laws, you get sent to “Urinetown,” the symbolic place of those too poor or stubborn to pay.

These laws have been put in place by the town’s dictatorial mayor Caldwell B. Cladwell (Tynan Collins.) Cladwell, facing his impending death from dehydration many years ago, decided to cling to life and use money to regulate urination and water consumption. He is aided by two corrupt cops Lockstock and Barrel (Matt Taylor and Liam Webster,) who are his brute force in the operation, sending the unruly and disobedient to Urinetown.

Also helping his operation are Penelope Pennywise (Alison LaVerdiere) who is in charge of public amenity #9 (a main setting for the show,) Senator Fipp (Jonathan Guy) who helps pass legislature in order to keep the operation going, Mr. McQueen (Matt Berube) who is Cladwell’s main research expert, and Mrs. Millenium (Sophie Mailhot) his assistant. Cladwell’s daughter Hope (Paige Weber) eventually comes home from college and helps her father as a fax/copy girl, unintentionally playing a big part in the revolution by the poor.

The poor in the town, the ones being oppressed by Cladwell’s fees, eventually revolt. The revolution is headed by Bobby Strong (Patrick Buzza) who, after being told by Hope to follow his heart, decides to lead the rest of the poor in boycotting the public amenities. The rest of the poor include characters such as Bobby’s mother and father Josephine and Old Man Strong (Brenna Eastman and Dylan Miller,) Little Sally (Riley McCurdy) and many other angry, oppressed people.

The rest of the cast is as follows: Addie Starbird, Dylan Aspinall, Dante Baskett, Jessi Sinclair, Addie Starbird, Austin Hopkins, Owen Kane, Isabel Bassett, Darima Dashidondokova, Addison Goodwin and Sophie Messina.

Tickets will be $5 for students and seniors and $8 for adults.

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