Question: Why does Berger tell Sheila and her friend, that he needs $250 to bail his friends out? The bail was $50/person an there's only 4 of them in jail.
Question: Why do they suddenly start singing about Manchester?
Answer: Because the character who is singing, Claude Hooper Bukowski, is from Manchester and came to the US when he 'dropped out'.
Claude is from Oklahoma, not Manchester. The song came from the play. In the stage version, Sheila was from Manchester.
Question: Did the actors do their own singing?
Answer: Yes.
Tobin OReillyAnswer: Yes.
Question: In "The Flesh Failures," they sing "life is around you and in you, except for Timothy Leary, deary". What does this mean?
TingelingChosen answer: The word is "answer" not "except". "Life is around you and in you ... let the sunshine in" is an answer to Timothy Leary - probably to his "turn on, tune in, drop out".
Myridon
Answer: He wanted to give Claude his $50 back.