Those evil-natured robots, they’re programmed to destory us. But some of them want to evolve beyond their initial programming, like, say, a puny human raised in a dysfunctional family.

There’s really no easy way to summarize Open Drawer Theatre Company’s apeshit hilarious Please Listen: A Musical Chaos that won’t make it sound terrible. Musical parodies are a Fringe staple, but they’re a bitch to pull off: Aside from the fact that the stage musical is already a highly self-referential form, there’s the problem of proficiency. Flight of the Conchords and those Lonely Island music videos wouldn’t be half as funny as if their creators didn’t have musical chops at least somewhere in the same room as those of the folks they’re satirizing.

The large cast led by winning co-stars (and co-writers) Mark Halpern and Aaron Bliden in Please Listen have that covered: The least among them can still kind of sing and dance, the best seem to have a shot at long careers, and every one of them is wholly in tune with the show’s Ed Wood-ian sensibility.