So what the heck gives with the four-performance lifespan of Point Break Live! at the forever-in-flux V Theater at Planet Hollywood? At 10:26 a.m. on Tuesday morning, David Saxe Productions (which runs V) issued an abrupt e-mail that read, in part, "We regret that we announce the closing of 'Point Break Live!' ... please cancel all future performances in your systems ..."

No further explanation was given. V's Web link to PBL! had already been disabled. Nothing was mentioned by the daily papers until Thursday, when Jerry Fink of the Las Vegas Sun passed along this rather windy non-explanation by PBL! producer Eve Hars: “The V Theater, although great for the purposes it usually serves, is not appropriate for an intimate and immersive punk rock theater experience like ‘Point Break Live!’ Distracting aesthetic issues, combined with unforeseen and irreparable audio and lighting issues, broke up the continuity and intimacy of the performance, thereby leading us to decide the V Theater was not fitting for ‘Point Break Live!’”

Fink wasn't buying it and theorized curtly, "The show wasn't filling the theater." City Life's Dave Surratt wasn't persuaded, either. But Hars must have opened up a back channel to Las Vegas Weekly. Although the Weekly went to press well before Fink's column appeared, its review of PBL! was amended to note that "producers reached an agreement with a different venue, the name of which hasn't been released yet."

So which is it? Has Hars found a new home for the show or is the company still looking?

One indication that trouble may have been brewing for a while is that Saxe Productions rolled out a replacement show at 2:17 p.m., Thursday, less than 52 hours after PBL! had officially gone dark.

Which makes this as good a time as any to ask rhetorically: Why the heck did Saxe ever close down Marc Savard's Mesmerized! in the first place? And to say: Congratulations on bringing back an extremely funny show.

Savard had taken up residence in Trader Vic's for a time, but it was a dollar-store version of his V Theater production. Not only were his two comely assistants AWOL, but Savard himself seemed to be hurriedly going through the motions, and the sightlines in the room were wretched.

In its V incarnation, Mesmerized! is an adults-only show and you do not want to try and sneak the kiddies in. (Trader Vic's Savard was much more family-friendly than V Theater Savard.) Oh, and his therapeutic CDs are a good buy: I use his "Insomnia" CD all the time. All.The.Time.

As for the orphaned Point Break Live!, if anyone out there can clear up the confusion, please let us know. As things stand now, it will enter the history books as the fastest flop in Vegas history.