GeneCo’s annual publicity fest, the Genetic Opera, is this evening, with their corporate voice, Blind Mag (Sarah Brightman), who was Marni’s closest friend, set to give her final performance at the show. The former doctor now uses his skills to slash and stab his way through bodies to get to their organs as his form of parole, so that he can raise his and Marni’s ill daughter, Shilo (Alexa Vega), who he keeps under lock and key under the guise of protection. His tortured soul is in debt to Rotti, as Nathan feels responsible for the death of the woman both men loved, Marni. Nathan Wallace (Anthony Head) is one such Repo-Man. While GeneCo finances these organs and surgeries, if someone misses a payment, a Repo-Man comes to take back those defaulted body parts, regardless of the consequences removal of said organs would have on their former owners. Surgery is treated like it were a haircut, without second thought, to fit the needs of one’s whims. GeneCo is now in the business of selling body parts and Zydrate, a pain killer derived from the bodies of those passed. Rotti Largo (Paul Sorvino), the founder of GeneCo, is responsible for the cure, amounting to unbelievable power and fame. A futuristic world has been ravaged by disease, killing millions. The story is pretty complex, like something out of daytime soaps with a dash of vulgarity and violence, but very easy to follow. Despite the amazingly high “cheese factor” that musicals are coated in, I’ve always found them to be one of my greatest guilty pleasures, so when I heard about ‘Repo! The Genetic Opera’, needless to say I urgently wanted to get my hands on it. The musical genre has been littered with “break out into song and dance number” flicks since the earliest talkies, with characters all knowing the impending steps and tunes like they were formulaic nursery rhyme-style chants uttered to them since birth. Words that may induce cringes when uttered separately, and possibly induce convulsions and/or comas for the uninitiated when spoken in conjunction.
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