TL20061130-01 "Nick Di Marco Staff Writer A statue of an erect 6 foot penis covered in hundreds of colorful condoms attracted the attention of students as they walked beneath the Lecture Hall Tuesday. Onlookers gathered around the new piece of art, taking out their cell phones to snap photos. The phallic artwork was cre-ated by Laura Skidmore, Tracy Mangione, Kodi French, and Angela Fruscello, four Towson art majors completing a project for professor Jim Paulsen�s sculpture class. �We were hoping for shock and maybe some humor,� Fruscello said. �It seems we got that because I saw many people stopping and pointing, sometimes grabbing their phones and taking pictures. I loved it!� Some students went as far as to www.thetowerlight.com Vacation in Brazil becomes nightmare for �Turistas� in latest generic horror flick Arts, page 17 Thursday INSIDE Calendar........3 Perspectives........4 News.......7 History.....10 Beyond......11 Arts......15 Puzzles.......19 Classifi eds......20 Sports.......24 on the The Towerlight Published by and for the students of Towson and Baltimore -- twice-weekly Nov. 30, 2006 Erecting art Kris Marsh/The Towerlight A 6 foot statue of an erect penis covered in condoms, created by four art majors for a class, was displayed under the Lecture Hall. �Urinetown� comes to Towson town See STATUE, page 9 Provocative statue sends mixed messages, attracts attention Becki Lee Staff Writer Don�t be alarmed if something smells a little funny in the Center for the Arts this weekend. It�s simply �Urinetown: The Musical,� being performed by the department of theatre arts from Friday, Dec. 1 to Saturday, Dec. 9. �Urinetown,� a dark musical com-edy in two acts, depicts a post-apoc-alyptic city after a 20-year drought. The water supply has dwindled to the point where the government has banned private toilets and placed a toll on public ones. The monolithic corporation Urine Good Company, which is run by Caldwell B. Cladwell (Bradley Burgess), has a monopoly on public toilets and charges exorbitant prices for people to urinate. Those who refuse to pay the fee � or who are unable to, as the city is populated by the very poor � are banished to Urinetown, a secretive place from which no one ever returns. One man, Bobby Strong (Ryan Haase), is determined to start a rebellion after his father �Old Man� Strong (Jason Beall) is sent to Urinetown for relieving himself in the street. The musical chron-icles, tongue-in-cheek, the course of Bobby�s revolt and the drastic measures he takes to restore the right to pee for free, with the help of individuals such as Hot Blades Harry, a knife-obsessed rebel (Ryan Airey); Hope Cladwell, Cladwell�s innocent and beautiful daughter (Elisa Dugan); and other colorful characters. �[Bobby] is the revolutionary,� Haase, a sophomore theater design major, said. �I actually modeled my character as a nerdy Disney charac-ter hero. He�s even got the Disney �hair swoop.�� One of the other rebels who help Bobby Strong is Little Becky Two Shoes, who is pregnant and has a prosthetic leg. �She�s just a crazy poor woman,� Jayne Harris, a sophomore theater major, said. �She kind of takes changes with one of the other poor people, and we just go on this rampage.� Playing such an absurd part has been enjoyable, Harris said. �She is a really funny character,� she said. �We all have so much fun being these characters � I don�t think it�s like any play that Towson has put on before.� Will Parquette plays Tiny Tom, another one of the rebels in the second act of the play. Tiny Tom is quiet and not quite as smart as the other characters, according to Parquette, who is a junior theater major. See URINETOWN, page 18 Patrick Smith/The Towerlight "
