musical, marionettical mayhem brimming with farcical fantasia and pavarottian provocation. sing and die on the stage as you drown in the roaring crowds, sing and die in the sea as you drown in the roaring crests. the infinitesimal infant intones as her father feeds on a fix of the fatal pharmaceutical known as fame. will he still be laugh, laugh, laughing when he falls into the abyss with nothing to love?