Yes, the musical part of the play does get a little disjointing. Olive’s song to her parents is sweet but out of place, and the overall tone of the piece weeble-wobbles between “pandemonium” and dejected love.

The jokes that make everyone laugh do so because they’re “uncomfortables” in their own right. It’s grown-up potty humor: inappropriate, vulgar, impolite. They’re jokes that get at our deep-seated cultural anxieties; just like jokes about farting or sudden burps unveil our strong taboos on physical improprieties. I thought the snide delivery of some of those comments by Paul J. Williams as Douglas Panch was pitch perfect. And had there not been jokes such as that, the play itself would have been a little lackluster.