Today, the director noted, the results could have been achieved with visual effects and digital extras — and, presumably, no tonsorial sacrifices.

Though she had stopped drinking by then, it was clear that so staid a milieu could not contain her sartorial, tonsorial and vocal energies.

On stage, professional models sporting towering tonsorial headpieces stood rapt as they were splattered with gobs of a black, tar-like substance.