"Pandora and the Seven Deadly Sins" is the result — a combination of western traditions and Balinese masked dance drama written by Wormser and Paul Wood. Like in the Greek myth, this Pandora unwittingly unleashes a collection of unsavory behaviors on an unsuspecting and innocent humankind, but some of their names have changed.

Pride, Lust, Anger, Sloth, Envy, Greed, Regret, and Deceit do their mischief in this version. They add up to more than seven, for those who are counting, and are joined by masks for Pandora and Hope, as well as a large puppet moth.

Like in the medieval morality play "Everyman," each vice gets to do a number on the central figure. But in this production they're collected into a series of vaudeville acts.

Anger, for example, is a stand-up comedian played by Travis Rose who pushes for laughs by insulting his audience. Sloth (William Boynton) is a beat poet, Regret (Jennifer Linstad) is a blues singer, and Envy (Nicole Tessier) is a three-eyed mind reader, dressed in obligatory green.

It's an interesting approach, but one begins to wonder whether Wormser, who also directs, has thrown too many ingredients — including a live gamelan orchestra — into the pot. First, there's the chorus — six blithely happy Stepford-like citizens who feel good, never think, and never worry. But the gods create a woman, Pandora, who has several solo dances and too much curiosity.

Kiana Rivera breaks from the chorus pack to become Pandora's voice, while seven — or eight — Deadly Sins have their individual turns in the spotlight. When the vaudeville is over, the masked players terrorize the audience and turn the chorus into bickering, lying, thieving humans. But Pandora (Tamie Onchi) and Hope (Sonja Hinz) have more dancing to do before the chorus is eventually pronounced to be human, but still charming.

The performance runs an hour and 45 minutes without intermission. A relatively alert audience sees where it is going early on, and tends to tune out. The action would play better if it were tightened up to half that length.