Fast Tracks

November, 1983

Setting The Scene: The lights dim, the overture begins, the curtain rises and what do you see? Vegetables, rats and weasels. What's going on here? This is Broadway, after all, not some punk club on the Lower East Side. Relax, folks; it's opening night on the Great White Way for the most inventive Mother of them all, Frank Zappa. The only resemblance of this high-tech extravaganza to a typical Broadway show, says Frank, is that it will run in a legit theater. Thecharacters from his various songs...