NP? Misc possible (or related-to?) P?

[Mark Kohut]

My daughter recently saw a high school production of Carnival, a 1961
Broadway musical that has not had a major revival since---and no movie. 
(Optioned, 

died)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnival!

We know how the whole concept of Carnivale pervades Pynchon's work. I think of 
Zamboni (The Magnificent?) and Merle's wife running off with him
from Against The Day, when I read of that plotline....

I think of P's riffing words on love/the erotic making the whole world turn (In 
V.) when I read
about the song "Love Makes the World go Round".