 Resplendent in top hat and tails, Ben begins to offer his devil-may-care philosophy ("Live, Laugh, Love"), but stumbles and anxiously calls to the conductor for the lyrics, as he frantically tries to keep going.Ben becomes frenzied, while the dancing ensemble continues as if nothing was wrong.Amidst a deafening discord, Ben screams at all the figures from his past and collapses as he cries out for Phyllis.