I don’t know how many of you have seen the Broadway musical Urinetown, the Musical, but what is happening at Kimmel right now really REALLY reminds me of this musical.

Urinetown, the Musical, takes place in a town like any other town, except this town has experienced 20 years of drought, and water is scarce. To save the town, Urine Good Company, or UGC for short, was created by Mr. Cladwell and it taxes the people in the town for peeing, and the public toilets are called “Public Amenity.”

The musical began with Bobby Strong seeing his father taken away by the cops for peeing in public since he couldn’t afford the P.A.s. A girl by the name of Hope, Cladwell’s daughter, meets Bobby Strong by chance, and Hope provided Bobby a vision for a brighter tomorrow. The next day, Bobby leads a group of poors and takes over a P.A. (doesn’t it sound awfully familiar?). It is also worth mentioning that a portion of the poor showed no sign of good moral character. Eventually Bobby attempts to negotiate with Mr. Cladwell, who offers Bobby lots and lots of money, only to have Bobby refuse the offer, and so the cops threw Bobby off of the roof of UGC, sending him off to Urinetown.

The story doesn’t end there, but as of right now I see a funny-but-not-quite-so parallel between TBNYU and Bobby Strong. It’s naive of them to allow anyone who will follow, and thus resulting in the hooded men holding the Anarchist banner. TBNYU, it might be a good idea to withdraw before NYU metaphorically throw you off of the roof of Kimmel Center.