Critique- Urine Town Urinetown tells the story of Assistant Urinal Custodian; Bobby Strong. The play opens with a gloomy welcome from Officer Lockstock, a policeman. According to Little Sally and Officer Lockstock, a twenty year old drought has caused water shortage making private toilets unconsidered to own. Therefore, public amenities are controlled by a megacorporation called Urine Good Company (UGC). In order to control water consumption, UGC ordinates the people to pay to use the public amenities. These are harsh laws of “paying to pee” and if a person breaks the law, he or she is sent to “Urinetown.” The hero (Bobby) realizes he has had enough and leads the rebels into a revolution. Bobby Strong is portrayed by actor: Glenn DeVar. The character is an assistant at Public Amenity #9 who witnesses his father being sent to ‘’Urinetown’’ for not using a toilet. As the play develops, the character realizes he has had enough with this system and develops a plan to start a rebellion. The character’s Goals are: 1) Provide free amenities for the poor. 2) Wants to know what Urinetown is. 3) Make the town a better place. The character’s Obstacles are: 1) He doesn’t have the money or authority. 2) Officer Longstock tells him it is a mystery and a penal place. 3) And main obstacle is that UGC controls everything in the town even the police. There are no rights for the people. The Actor made some interesting choices that caught my attention; 1) He chose to be a sweet and charismatic person instead of being a STRONG leader, ironically his last name is Strong. One big choice I felt he made was that he tried to portray this character as a typical Disney Prince. This applies to movement as well, I felt he made dramatic movements with his hands like a ballet dancer. To my observation he did a good job choosing this over a Strong Leader hero type because it allowed for some humbleness to be into action. The actor’s voice quality was slightly high pitched and was sometimes difficult to understand what he was saying when he sang. But then again, this reflects from the choices he made by being a “prince” type of hero. I felt he could have done a better performance by keeping his natural voice when he sang instead of high pitching it to sound lovelier. Overall Glenn DeVar’s performance was good and most important it felt honest to the audience.