PLAYBILL ON-LINE'S BRIEF ENCOUNTER with Greg Kotis and Mark Hollmann
At the end of the zany, caustic musical comedy, Urinetown, a treatise on population, poverty and consumption, written in 1798 by sociologist Thomas Malthus, is held aloft. Did the creators of the musical about a drought-stricken world where folks have to "pay to pee" have its roots in liberal politics or in Laurel and Hardy? The Tony Award-winning lyricist-librettist Greg Kotis and lyricist-composer Mark Hollmann exp…