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That is how ''Urinetown,'' an aboriginal agreeable about a apple in which a distinct aggregation controls a city's accessible toilets, was born.

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Since the beginning, the appearance has had elements of a Cinderella story, from its apprehensive premiere at the 1999 New York International Fringe Anniversary to an acclaimed Off Broadway run this summer, and assuredly to Broadway itself, area it is in previews at the Henry Miller amphitheater and appointed to accessible on Sept. 13.

''Urinetown'' has acquired a new administrator aback its Fringe canicule -- John Rando, who afresh directed ''The Dinner Party'' and ''A Thousand Clowns'' on Broadway. It additionally best up John Carrafa, who took over the choreography for its above-mentioned run at the American Amphitheater of Actors on West 54th Street. Both men accept been adapting that assembly to the beyond bound of the Henry Miller, which has been outfitted with some 640 new seats.

It hasn't been a glitch-free transition. The aperture has been delayed several times, and apropos about the blast in the theater, which dates to 1918, persist. The producers accept afresh installed new air-conditioning.

Still, Mr. Carrafa said, the action has been added comedy than work. ''We aloof accumulate thinking, 'How do we do this in the ''Urinetown'' world? ' '' he said. ''For every abstraction you see onstage, there's about 20 that were befuddled out.''

The musical's success appropriately far has been both candied (a about baby $2.25 actor account and several awards) and acerb (with one exception, the aboriginal casting has been let go and added accomplished actors accept been hired). The ascendant emotion, however, seems to be one of awe at how far the appearance has come.

''From the beginning, this has been a alternation of surprises,'' Mr. Kotis said. ''We about wrote a appearance we anticipation would be unproduceable. And now we're aperture on Broadway.''

Mr. Kotis's assistant from the actual alpha was the artisan Mark Hollmann, a academy acquaintance and adolescent Chicagoan whose best contempo date accomplishment had been a banana abhorrence agreeable advantaged ''Jack the Chipper.'' (A copse alert was involved.)

Working with Mr. Kotis in New York, Mr. Hollmann, 37, began autograph the account in 1996, scribbling songs while earning his assets as a chat processor at PaineWebber and as an organist at Christ Lutheran Abbey on West 19th Street. (Mr. Hollmann still holds both jobs; Mr. Kotis has alone afresh abdicate his day job, as a area advance for the television alternation ''Law and Order.'')

The aboriginal song written, Mr. Hollmann said, was ''It's a Advantage to Pee,'' in which a tough-hearted urinal-proprietor, Penelope Pennywise (played by Nancy Opel), spells out the argumentation and laws of Urinetown:

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Twenty years we've had the drought,

And our reservoirs accept all broiled up.

I booty my baths now in a coffee cup.

I abscess what's larboard of it for tea,

And it's a advantage to pee.

The song, which occurs aboriginal in the aboriginal act, additionally accustomed the antithesis amid acknowledge and calmness that Mr. Kotis and Mr. Hollmann were appetite for: an arch, alive abusive accent with some accurate political underpinnings. (Michael Rego, one of the ''Urinetown'' producers, jokingly calls the appearance ''the agreeable for bodies who adulation left-wing musicals.'')

The appearance relies on that balance, as is axiomatic by the way its spoofs of the conventions of Broadway musicals -- the line, ''What affectionate of agreeable is this?'' is again throughout -- are accompanying with the abashing idea, alien in the finale, that able celebrity could comedy a allotment in ecological disaster. The music and staging additionally assume to address the accomplished and accelerate it up at the aforementioned time.

Mr. Hollmann's score, for example, aboveboard cribs from Kurt Weill, while Mr. Carrafa's agilely brief agreeable staging, abnormally an Act II arrangement involving a prosthetic leg brace, appears to be dabbling fun at the splashy, chic routines championed by Broadway legends like Jerome Robbins and Bob Fosse.

''I had a aphorism with the actors that if I couldn't explain the arrangement in 10 minutes,'' Mr. Carrafa said, ''it was apparently too much.''

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While the show's aboriginal song was accounting in 1996, it wasn't until the winter of 1997 and aboriginal 1998 that the two men began assignment in earnest, generally clearing into the altar at the abbey to compose and animation lyrics off anniversary other. They accomplished a aboriginal abstract in mid-1998 and anon began aggravating to advertise the show. It wasn't easy.

''We beatific it to 50 or 60 places,'' Mr. Kotis remembered. ''We got aback a lot of belletrist that said things like, 'We absolutely like it, but you've got to accept that the boilerplate age of our subscribers is 93.' ''

No one, it seemed, was absorbed in a appearance whose appellation can accomplish some bodies a bit wary. That wariness, said Mr. Hollmann, eventually afflicted his and Mr. Kotis's animosity about the musical.

''It was like, 'This is our bedraggled little show, our Frankenstein,' '' Mr. Hollmann said, with a laugh. '' 'Let's accumulate it in the lab! Let's not let the villagers see it!' ''

The agreeable ability never accept apparent the ablaze of day had it not been for a adventitious chat that Mr. Kotis had with John Clancy, the aesthetic administrator of the Present Company, the city affiliation amenable for bearing the anniversary Fringe festival.

''I was casting the show, and he didn't stop me,'' Mr. Kotis recalled. ''And I thought, 'This is encouraging.' ''

Mr. Clancy appropriate that Mr. Kotis abide the agreeable to the Fringe, and several months afterwards the appearance was accepted. Afterwards casting calls were advertised in Aback Date and rehearsals captivated in the abbey basement, ''Urinetown'' had its admission in August 1999 at the Theatorium on Stanton Street on the Lower East Side. The appearance already had a city fizz -- probably, in archetypal Fringe fashion, because of the title. But afterwards the opening, bartering producers began to call, alike admitting the assembly had not been advised by boilerplate critics.

At that point, one of the musical's best important boosters angry out to be the author David Auburn, who won the Pulitzer Prize this year for his comedy ''Proof.'' Mr. Auburn, addition academy acquaintance of Mr. Kotis's, came to see the appearance aboriginal in its Fringe run.

At intermission, he fabricated a blast alarm to Mr. Rego, a accomplice in the Araca Group, a bearing aggregation that had army Mr. Auburn's aboriginal play, ''Skyscraper,'' in 1997.

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Mr. Rego remembered: ''David alleged at abeyance and said, 'I don't apperceive what you guys are doing, but you charge see this appearance tomorrow night.' And while you ability anticipate that happens all the time, that absolutely never anytime happens.''

Mr. Rego and his two partners, his brother Matthew and Hank Unger, a adolescence friend, saw ''Urinetown'' the abutting night. ''We appearance up and it's packed,'' Mr. Rego said. ''It's 105 degrees out, the air-conditioning is nonexistent, we agonize into this little amphitheater and out comes this little show. And it's great.''

Negotiations began that aforementioned night amid Araca and Mr. Kotis and Mr. Hollmann over sushi in an East Village restaurant. Several concessions were fabricated on both sides; the abeyant producers capital a added acclimatized casting (Spencer Kayden is the sole holdover), the artistic ancillary capital time to advance the show. The Aracans additionally brought in Mr. Rando, Mr. Carrafa and Edward Strauss, the agreeable director.

In the end, it took about two years to advance the show. Several workshops were held, to which Mr. Rego arrive Michael David, a accomplice in Dodger Theatricals, the Broadway bearing company. Mr. David agreed to advice arise a bartering run of the appearance afterwards seeing a account at New Dramatists in January 2000.

''Urinetown'' opened Off Broadway in May afterwards a advisedly easygoing business plan aimed at architecture ''insider'' fizz about the production. The tagline appropriate article hardly aphotic was afoot: ''An alarming notion, absolutely realized.''

Indeed, the aberration from its Fringe apotheosis was striking. About the absolute casting was new -- now abounding with Broadway veterans like John Cullum, Jeff McCarthy and Ms. Opel -- as was the set, which aback looked, well, like a set.

The one affair that wasn't new was the title. ''Someone already appropriate 'U-Town,' '' Mr. Hollmann said. ''But really, what abroad could you alarm this?''

And while the appellation may accept initially put off some critics, the reviews were about absolutely acceptable and the appearance won two Obie Awards.

NOW, it seems, the alone catechism is how this ''little show'' will comedy to a Broadway admirers advantageous $85 a admission (balcony seats are $35). Mr. Rego said he was assured the agreeable will acquisition an admirers uptown. Aloof in case, though, the aggregation alternate to the show's old stomping ground: ''Urinetown'' had a berth every day at this year's contempo Fringe festival, affairs abatement tickets alfresco the Theatorium and alms chargeless tickets to Fringe volunteers.

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Mr. Kotis said he believed there was a ample admirers for the show, bodies who not alone acknowledge to the banter but additionally to the basal bulletin that acquisitive corporations and egocentric citizenry can be a adverse combination.

''I've consistently anticipation that theater, at its best, is proselytizing,'' he said. ''The abruptness of this appearance is that there are added bodies who feel like that than we expected.''

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