A multi-talented ensemble present, through music, song and dance, the stories of Tantalus, Narcissus and Sisyphus, three men sentenced to eternal frustration for offending the gods.
A son of Zeus, Tantalus killed his own son, Pelops, and cooked him in a soup to serve to the gods at a great banquet. For his gluttony, the gods sentenced Tantalus to stand in the river Styx beneath a bunch of grapes that would move every time he reached for them. Narcissus, so entranced by his own beauty, refused all suitors and was condemned for his pride to fall in love with his own reflection in that same river Styx. For eternity, his love would be unrequited. Sisyphus, renowned as the craftiest man of all, became manipulative and cruel and was thus punished with the sentence of forever having to push a bolder up a hill, only to have it roll down again before reaching the top.
Kevin Noe, Matthew Romantini and Robert Frankenberry are fantastically cast as the three prisoners of the underworld. Frankenberry expresses Narcissuss plight through song, showcasing a magnificent voice, and Romantini portrays Tantalus through exquisite choreography. However, Noe, playing Sisyphus as a lovable goof, is the main reason to see this show; his roles as both host and contestant in the underworld game-show Melodious Diagnosious are hilarious and one cannot help but fall for him when he performs a number with a ventriloquists dummy. Unfortunately, David Skidmore as the Camus-quoting Keeper comes across as obnoxiously affected, partly but not entirely because he is the youngest cast member. While the production as a whole is luxuriously stylish and all elements are blended beautifully, it is let down by a self-indulgent and over-emphasised script.
