If You're Going to Fail, Might As Well Do It Spectacularly

My players were tasked with protecting a particularly sleazy and obnoxious actor to get him to (and through) an important performance. If the show did not go off according to plan it would bring great shame and dishonour to several important and powerful nobles. People might even die if this performance was ruined. Unfortunately the actor owed many evil people large sums of money, not to