“Urinetown,” the musical, a 2001 Broadway play with two Tony Awards to its credit, is being performed by the Wild Goose Players at the Bellows Falls Opera House on March 30-31, and April 1.This rural Vermont community theatre has a plethora of talent.
'Urinetown' Who says a play can’t feature commentary on capitalism and a whole lot of immature pee jokes? The Wild Goose Players present the best of both worlds in Urinetown, the Tony Award-winning musical satire that sends up greed, the dystopian genre and musicals themselves. Taking place in a future where an unending drought has led the government to ban private toilets, the only way to go No. 1 is to pay the Urine Good Company a hefty fee to use its public bathrooms. Naturally, the poor start questioning the status quo, and the corporate pissants attempt to stave off revolution in a hilarious story that may just have audiences you-know-what-ing their pants.
I had the pleasure of seeing former Valley resident Dar Williams perform at the Bellows Falls Opera House last weekend. I have to admit that I was largely unfamiliar with much of Dar’s work, but I felt that, based upon everything I had heard about.
BELLOWS FALLS—The premier concert of the Ray Massucco Concert Series will feature Dar Williams, with opening act Crys Matthews, at the Bellows Falls Opera House on Saturday, Feb. 4. A small group of friends created the concert series in memory of Massucco, who died suddenly last September, with the first .