YMMV / Urinetown

• Award Snub:
  • The Broadway production won the Tonys for Score, Direction, and Book. Despite winning all three major awards for backstage talent, it lost the top prize to Thoroughly Modern Millie, which was much less acclaimed. It's been said that the show's highly praised craft was enough to win those categories, but its subject matter and title ruined it's chances of winning the more highly marketable top prize.
  • Additionally, Hunter Foster's valiant leading turn and Jeff McCarthy's hilarious scene stealing work did not join the other principal actors among the nominees. Quite noticeable with the latter who many fans considered the show's standout performance who deserved to win the award.
• Awesome Music: "It's a Privilege to Pee"; the Act One finale, "Run, Freedom, Run!" Indeed, more of its songs could arguably qualify as the crowner than not.
• Genius Bonus: "Hail Malthus!"
• Ho Yay:
  • Cladwell and Fipp, depending on how productions play these lines:
    Fipp: You're a good girl, Hope. I used to be one too. Until I met your father.
    Hope: A good girl?
    Fipp: You heard me.
  • Officer Lockstock and Officer Barrel, especially on the latter's part.
• Inferred Holocaust: Penny Pennywise remembers and expands on this.
• Moral Event Horizon: Caldwell B. Cladwell crosses this when he sends Bobby to Urinetown, which is actually execution by being thrown off Cladwell Column, knowing full well that the rebels would kill his daughter. Necessarily Evil or not, that was just unpardonable.
• Tear Jerker: As Played for Laughs as it is, Bobby's death and last words.
• The Un-Twist: Done on purpose. Halfway through the first act, Lockstock casually mentions offhand that the show's primary plot twist is exactly what every audience member with the slightest familiarity with dystopian fiction could guess it is (that "Urinetown" is a euphemism for throwing people off buildings), but adds that the audience won't learn that until act II (even though they just did).

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