It seems inevitable, given that the internet is the internet, that someone would do a satirical take on Burning Man in the form of musical theater. And that very thing has arrived! It's the work of producer/writer Matt Werner and composer Gene Back, with direction from Kyle Fassanella, and it appears to feature some legit theater talent from New York.

This is just the first video, which is a medley of songs, and it's pretty hilarious. The funniest of the numbers, "I Dreamed a Dream of Burns Gone By," is a lyrical lament by veteran Burners who say techies have killed the whole thing. It contains the lyric, "I dreamed a dream when I was high, that Burning Man reached its peak in '09."

And the handsome lead actor is Travis Kent.

Werner and company are actually trying to raise $20,000 to produce two more "songs" from the musical, so I guess this is actually not a joke! The IndieGogo campaign is here. And for a $5,000 donation you can get your own speaking or singing role in one of the videos!

As Werner says, "Our end goal is to produce a full-length musical, however, that is a multi-year process. We're currently developing the musical in bite-sized chunks, creating one or two songs at a time and releasing them to YouTube."

Will this climax with the lead tech guy having MDMA-fueled sex on the playa and then losing his cell phone, only to realize he can actually live without it and singing a moving ballad about being free from technology? Well, actually, it looks like the plot's already been mapped out.

Joe is a young, driven techie in Silicon Valley. He sees Burning Man as his shot to network with Silicon Valley elites who can jumpstart his career and help him achieve his lifelong goal of becoming a multimillionaire by age 30. He crashes a techie plug-and-play camp at Burning Man. Chad and Bill the Billionaire recommend he go on a vision quest by taking mushrooms and going into the deep playa. A dust storm comes when Joe reaches the trash fence, and he nearly dies from dehydration and exposure. Hal the Hippie comes out of the dust storm to rescue him, and like Yoda, he takes Joe under his wing to train him in the ways of Burning Man.

In the second half of the musical, Joe wrestles with several questions. Will he continue making his drone-delivery app to profit off of this festival centered around decommodification? Or will he change course, now that he’s seen a different way to live? Will Sparkle Pony return his unrequited infatuation? Or will Catherine turn away from her father Bill the Billionaire to join Joe on a new adventure? Will Joe make it out of the desert alive? Or will his blind ambition and naive want to profit off of Burning Man do him in?

I like my climax better.