2009 - 2010 Season
March 19 - 27, 2010
Urinetown
Music by Mark Hollman
Book by Greg Kotis
Directed by Danilo Stapula
One of the most uproariously funny musicals in recent years, URINETOWN is a hilarious tale of greed, corruption, love, and revolution in a time when water is worth its weight in gold. In a Gotham-like city, a terrible water shortage, caused by a 20-year draught, has led to a government-enforced ban on private toilets. The citizens must use public amenities, regulated by a single malevolent company that profits by charging admission for one of humanity's most basic needs. Amid the people, a hero decides he's had
MPAT Fundraiser Revue
We invite you to join us for a night celebrating the wonderful past shows MPAT has produced, while highlighting wonderful performers and members of the Metropolitan Performing Arts Alliance family. We rely on the generosity of our wonderful friends to help us continue produce fun and exciting productions in our future. Bring a picnic basket and join us under the open sky at the Mason District Amphitheater and partake in an enchanting evening of theater!
September 11 - 12, 2009
Dear Edwina
Music by Zina Goldrich
Books and Lyrics by Marcy Heisler
Directed by Stephanie Gaia Chu and Danilo Stapula
Join Edwina Spoonapple and her friends as she hold her weekly show, "Dear Edwina". Whenever the kids of Paw Paw, Michigan need advice, Edwina's the one they ask! Everything from table manners to true love, Edwina and her friends tackle some of the tough (and not so tough) issues, all while trying to impress the judges for an invitation to the Kalamazoo Advice-A-Palooza Festival. MPAT presents its second Children's Theater production with this wonderfully witty and energetic musical.
enough, and plans a revolution to lead them all to freedom! Inspired by the works of Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill, URINETOWN is an irreverently humorous satire in which no one is safe from scrutiny. Praised for reinvigorating the very notion of what a musical could be, URINETOWN catapults the “comedic romp” into the new millennium with its outrageous perspective, wickedly modern wit, and sustained ability to produce gales of unbridled laughter. -Music Theatre International
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