| abstract
| - Comic style panels explain how epidemic organ failures devastated mankind in the future ("Depraved Heart Murder at Sanitarium Square"). The multi-billion dollar biotech company GeneCo emerged as a result. It provided for-profit organ transplantation, in addition to financing options. GeneCo was able to even repossess defaulted organs. Clients who were behind on payments feared the "organ repo men", contracted by GeneCo to recover GeneCo's property by any means necessary. The president of GeneCo, Rotti Largo, is dying. Meanwhile, Shilo Wallace, a 17 year-old, believes she inherited a rare blood disease from her deceased mother. She visits her mother's mausoleum ("Things You See in a Graveyard (Part One)") and runs into GraveRobber, who is digging up bodies. They flee from GenCops and enter a massive graveyard ("21st Century Cure"). After passing out, Shilo wakes up ("Shilo Wakes") to find her overprotective father, Nathan Wallace, watching her. He has kept her locked for 17 years, supposedly because of her disease. Shilo is bitter towards her mother, Marni (Sarah Power), for giving her the genetic disease ("Infected"). Nathan prepares for work as the head Repo Man for GeneCo ("Legal Assassin"). Previously a surgeon, Nathan was forced by Rotti into becoming a Repo Man. Marni had left Rotti for Nathan, so Rotti killed Marni and convinced Nathan that he was responsible for her death. Rotti promised to keep it secret if Nathan went to work for GeneCo. Rotti's children, Luigi, Pavi, and Carmelo Largo/Amber Sweet, meet at a GeneCo warehouse. Luigi and Pavi bicker over who will inherit GeneCo ("Mark It Up"). Nathan, meanwhile, repossesses an intestine ("Thankless Job"). The two siblings irritate Blind Mag, a famous pop-opera singer who works for GeneCo. Amber joins in and taunts Mag about being her replacement. Rotti then introduces Mag to Shilo, who Mag thought had died at birth. Nathan, while repossessing a spine, calls Shilo, who is under guard by Rotti's henchgirls ("Inopportune Telephone Call"). GraveRobber then helps Shilo escape ("GraveRobber and Shilo Escape"). Rotti announces that Blind Mag will be performing her final song. GraveRobber explains Zydrate, which is harvested from the brains of corpses. Those who are addicted to surgery, including Amber, need Zydrate to ease the pain. Amber arrives and gets a shot of the drug, explaining that she will be replacing Blind Mag after Mag's eyes are repossessed after her final song ("Zydrate Anatomy"). GenCops arrive and everyone scrambles to escape, except for Amber and her two valets, who hold her up as she passes out. Nathan delivers the repossessed spine to Rotti, who gives Nathan his next target: Blind Mag. However, Nathan refuses. Rotti, Pavi, and Luigi follow Nathan as he kills another victim, trying to guilt Nathan into repossessing Blind Mag's eyes ("Night Surgeon"). Later, Rotti sends his henchgirls with Blind Mag to Shilo's house. Blind Mag reveals that she is Shilo's godmother, and that she and Marni were good friends, prior to Marni's death. Blind Mag tries to convince Shilo to come to the Genetic Opera, while also warning Shilo to be careful with GeneCo ("Chase the Morning"). Nathan arrives and kicks Blind Mag out ("Come Back!"). After Shilo says that Repo Men will take Blind Mag's eyes, Nathan insists there are no such people. When she resists, he asks what a 17 year old could possibly do ("What Chance Has a 17 Year Old Girl?"). Back at GeneCo, Amber complains to Rotti that her latest surgery ruined her face. Rotti told her not to get so many surgeries, but he eventually says that he will take care of it ("Happiness is Not a Warm Scalpel"). After she leaves, Rotti signs his will, which shows Shilo as his sole benefactor. Nathan finds the GenCops searching his basement. They are there to find the "rogue Repo Man". Nathan finds Shilo left and the GenCops stole Marni's body ("Tonight We Are Betrayed"). Everyone arrives at the Opera, where the performance begins ("We Started This Op'ra Shit!"). Amber takes the stage for her premier, but her solo is cut short when she trips and her face falls off ("Blame Not My Cheeks"). Mag sings her final song, ending it by gouging out her eyes, stating that she'd rather be blind ("Chromaggia"). Rotti cuts the cords suspending Mag, dropping and impaling her on a fence ("Mag's Fall"). Rotti insists that Mag's death is part of the performance and convinces the audience to stay by saying that he will cure Shilo's illness ("Pièce De Résistance"). Shilo attacks Nathan in his Repo Man gear, hitting him in the head with a shovel. She then realizes that the Repo Man is her father ("Let the Monster Rise"). Rotti then reveals that Nathan has been making Shilo sick by giving her poison ("The Man Who Made You Sick"). Nathan explains that he was trying to protect her from the terrible world. Rotti tells Shilo that if she kills her father, she will inherit GeneCo ("Cut the Ties"). When she refuses, Rotti uses the last of his strength to shoot Nathan ("Shilo Turns Against Rotti"). Rotti then dies on-stage from his disease. Shilo and Nathan say goodbye before Nathan dies ("I Didn't Know I'd Love You So Much"). Shilo leaves, free from her genetic destiny ("Genetic Emancipation"). The following day, GraveRobber reads about Shilo turning down the GeneCo inheritance ("Epitaph"). Amber takes control of GeneCo and auctions off the face that fell off to Pavi.
|
![[RDF Data]](/fct/images/sw-rdf-blue.png)