Urinetown, The Musical

(This is gonna contain spoilers, probably. xD Just so ya know.)
Well, watching Urinetown was how I spent my evening tonight, so I thought it might be worth blogging about. It is related to story, as well as the theater arts, so...yeah.
Anyway, it was actually sort of really interesting to watch.
I mean, obviously it was honestly rather crude, but it had some very interesting thoughts about things like authority, and government, hid under a crude and somewhat silly exterior.
It started out by breaking the fourth wall right in the very beginning of the play, automatically letting the audience be more a part of the play than what is the standard. Afterwards it began setting up the concept of "urinetown."
This concept is the thinking that any place where people are forced to live in fear or oppression is a "urinetown." For the people in the play, they were threatened that if they did not obey the laws they would be taken to "urinetown" which actually was just a euphemism for being killed.
The people did not realize this until later on in the play, but it was actually highlighted by the narrator in the second act. He said, in reference to being asked what "urinetown" was, that, "There is no Urinetown, we just kill people." In that sort of thinking, "urinetown" is not only the concept of living in fear, but also the concept that if you live constantly in fear, you might as well be dead.
It's a rather interesting concept over all. I would defiantly agree that living your life in constant fear is akin the death, and that we should fight against this, when we see it.
 However, the play also highlighted how when authority crumbles even for the right reasons, (such as a tyranny ending, wanting to improve justice, etc) if there is not a stable system to replace it people will not be able to support the new way of life. It's almost paradoxical in that regard, because it says that you should try to break out of the system, but it also shows what can happen if you do so and are unprepared.
Basically everyone dies in the end, because they get rid of a dictator in the name of justice, and then they do not know how to continue to support themselves without the harsh rules of life. A highly realistic ending. (Not a usual ending for a musical)
I appreciated the realistic approach that they used to highlight some of the major concepts that most musicals usually have, (such a liberty, love, ect) it was a rather refreshing look at some of the fluff that is popular among mass media.
The play also was defiantly a product of the post-modern era, loving to highlight obvious character flaws/concepts, it made it rather interesting to watch though.
Over all I liked the play, I feel like although it's a little crude and almost too macabre,  it is worth seeing.