The Chto Delat (Russian “what is to be done?”) collective was founded in 2003 by a group of artists, critics, philosophers, and writers from St. Petersburg, Moscow, and Nizhny Novgorod with the goal of combining political theory and activism in art, and it aims for critical politicization of information. Its members frequently incorporate singing, while referring to Russia’s political reality and history. A Tower: The Songspiel (2010) is the concluding chapter of a trilogy of critical musicals, the first of which addressed perestroika, and the second – the partisans in Belgrade. The third chapter, based on a real-life event, tells the story of a corporation which suggested building a skyscraper in St. Petersburg. The tower was marketed as a symbol of modern Russia, and raised objections among city residents. In the musical, several choirs of concerned citizens (workers, old people, young girls, human rights activists, etc.) perform protest songs at the foot of a symbolic tower where a group of stakeholders (the corporation’s CEO, a politician, a priest, a gallery owner, and an artist) gather, singing their way to capital and power.