There is no doubt that Egypt's stolid old pyramid of state, capped by a pharaonic president, will be reshaped into something else.
Once a naughty, massively inspiring little Petri dish from which the likes of David Bowie, the Sex Pistols, Francis Bacon and Lucien Freud emerged, it is being rapidly reshaped into something resembling a homogenised shopping mall.
But the show's greatest interest for fans of Mr. Sondheim lies in seeing how what was once meant to be light and buoyant fare has been reshaped into something more somber.
If members of the Tiger Inn and its Graduate Board take swift and strong action to demonstrate that any kind of bias, harassment, exploitation or assault will not be tolerated, perhaps the current club culture can be reshaped into something worthy of the unique privilege that Princeton University students enjoy.
Moortown Diary, in the words of its introduction, "more or less excludes the poetic process" - or at any rate it changes that process from one of recollection and reshaping to something more like documentary, more like the rapid jottings of a journalist.
Patrick A. McCarthy expands on this idea of a non-linear, digressive narrative with the contention that "throughout much of Finnegans Wake, what appears to be an attempt to tell a story is often diverted, interrupted, or reshaped into something else, for example a commentary on a narrative with conflicting or unverifiable details".
The world of high fashion now faces having to reshape itself into something altogether less rarefied and more profit-driven in order to survive.
The plan is a desperate effort to avoid being sent to Japan's Industrial Revitalisation Corporation, which was set up last year to take bad borrowers away from the banks and reshape them into something (hopefully) more sensible.
But the television network's executives, evincing no faith in his artistry, tried to use the results of their market testing to reshape "Mulholland" into something it was never intended to be.
"He also gave me a path to new methods: how to take a piece and cut it up, reshape it, take something from the foreground and put it in the background, or switch the polarity".
One can argue that the most potent expression of that admiration would have been to leave "Miss Lonelyhearts" the novel alone, not laboriously twist and reshape it into something it was never intended to be.
