The mysterious "Sudden Departure" – which has split families in two, tearing children from their parents and wrecking relationships – is not the show's focal point.
Songs from the new album, "Mad Season by Matchbox Twenty" (Atlantic Records), surveyed wrecked relationships in verses that sounded like one side of a disastrous lovers' spat.
The lengthier but much more accurate subtitle says it all: "How Silencing Conflict Wrecks Relationships and Companies... and What You Can Do About It".
Around the fringes of her heroines' wrecked relationships circle the "coffin chasers", even more desperate female predators who pick the bones of dead marriages and make off with the spare men.
In 2010 the focus of his anger was directed towards MI5, which he blamed for wrecking relationships with two of his girlfriends – one in Kuwait and one in London.
"The Hurt We Embrace," to music by Jan Kaczmarek, was a traditional wrecked-relationship duet, but the vagaries of love were observed and communicated with extra shrewdness in choreography performed with affecting intensity by Joseph Watson II and Roberta Sorrenti.
For instance, there's Nadja, a young woman with borderline personality disorder, a condition that's characterised by intense mood swings and impulsive behaviour that can wreck personal relationships – not that you'd guess that from meeting her.
It's the sort of moment that can wreck a relationship, never mind a holiday.
