Word: lockstock
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Another area in which Urinetown shines is its self-conscious narrative, principally delivered by Officer Lockstock (do you even have to ask if his partner’s name is Barrel?) and sometimes prompted by questions from Little Sally. The dialogue between the two is far funnier than it has any right to be. After a drippy and yet oddly charming love song, Little Sally muses that Hope, the female ingénue, loves her male counterpart, Bobby. “Of course, she does,” replies Officer Lockstock breaking down into tears in his best tribute...
...Officer Lockstock, Jeff McCarthy anchors, and just about steals, the show with his booming voice, towering presence and chameleon-like persona. In the last scene, his line reading of “Yes, Little Sally, yes it is,” left me chuckling for days. I’m laughing right now in recalling it to write this sentence...
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