Efforts to demonstrate persistent memory in M. sexta have relied on showing that adult moths retain a preference for the food they ate as larvae.
They contended on Tuesday that the police had obstructed their efforts to gather evidence, forcing the prosecution to rely on showing video of police violence that was previously shown on private television networks.
Group ticket sales, which the show relied on heavily, have dropped off since January.
Early on, the show relied on lip-syncing, though the practice was later abandoned.
Crystal Capella, the other with standout form, had proved too fragile to be relied upon to show it.
Even those who were more presentable could not, surely, be relied upon to show the same steadiness of purpose, bordering on monomania, that Thatcher found indispensable.
The show relied on a number of produced tricks for heightened applause: fog, blinking lights, a soundtrack of recent pop ditties.
At first, White says, the show "relied on tabloid stuff," hot-button subjects: feuding families, Aryan Nations, nudists, how fat affects marriages.
Bill Clinton, who as a presidential candidate played the sax on "The Arsenio Hall Show," relied on Hollywood friends to buff his image as the boy from Hope.
Varietys Brian Lowry, less impressed, wrote that the show relied on "by-the-numbers storytelling, albeit in a glossy package".
