THE SHOW IS:  PREPARE TO MEET YOUR MAKER

As of November 22, 2000 (24 Performances)

SCENE LIST

Premise:During the dawn of THE AGE OF ROMANTIC ENLIGHTENMENT, two people, a hunchbacked gravedigger, and a corpse, meet, revitalize and invigorate each other.

EVENTS

A.  PROLOGUE (Addition for the 1999 Revival):

Quasimodo/Francis & Cementeria/Ouanchu in the bedsitting room.

Ouanchu & Executioner

B.  Entr’acte:Pearly Gate Knock Knock Jokes

characters:PETER GABRIEL, X, Y, Z & A

ACT ONE

1.PREPARE TO MEET YOUR MAKER, surrealist mini-play
characters:HEAVENLY HOST, OUANCHU INNMEE, PETER GABRIEL, MAN ON THE SIDEWALK, JOHN THE BAPTIST,STRIPPERS, MAN IN THE CLUB, OVERLORD, OUANCHU’S MUMMY

Scene 1. The Pearly Gate -- Ouanchu Innmee (Cementeria), Peter Gabriel

Scene 2. The Sidewalk -- Ouanchu Innmee, Man on the Sidewalk

Scene 3. A Turkish Sauna -- Ouanchu Innmee, The Baptist

Scene 4. A Strip Club -- Ouanchu Innmee, Strippers, Man in Club

DANCE 1:OF THE SEVEN VEILS

Scene 5. The Pearly Gate -- Ouanchu Innmee, Peter Gabriel

Scene 6. Dining Hall -- Ouanchu Innmee, Peter Gabriel, Overlord

2.CEMENTERIA, or GRAVE DIGGER’S PARAMOUR
characters:HEAVENLY HOST, OVERLORD, HUNCHBACKS, QUASIMODO, OUANCHU INNMEE/CEMENTERIA, MATHILDA, STRIPPERS, SECURITY, CROUPIER, AUCTIONEER, YOUNG LADY FROM WEE CARE NAILS, LORD

Scene 1.Dining Hall Transition -- Overlord, Hunchbacks

Scene 2.Bone Orchard -- Hunchbacks, Quasimodo, Cementeria

DANCE 2:HUNCHBACK GRAVE DANCE (Each one, one by one, dropping senseless with drunken exhaustion except Quasimodo.Quasimodo solo gigue)

Scene 3.Pumpkin Patch Transition to Inn -- Cementeria, Quasimodo

Scene 4.Room within the Dew Drop Inn -- Cementeria, Quasimodo

SONG 1:“CEMENTERIA” (within the bathroom of the room)

Scene 5.The Pearly Gate -- Cementeria, Quasimodo, Peter Gabriel

Scene 6.Exclusive Courtyard within the Pearly Gate -- Cementeria, Quasimodo, Neighbor

DANCE 3:UNION WALTZ

Scene 7.Fine local restaurant/the walk home -- Quasimodo, Bashers

Scene 8.Victorian home within the Courtyard

Scene 9.Wasteland outside the Pearly Gate -- Quasimodo, Mathilda

Scene 10.Same, a week later -- Quasimodo, Mathilda

Scene 11.Bank Security Desk and waiting area -- Quasimodo, Strippers, Security Guards

DANCE 3.STRIPPER EMPOWERMENT LUNCH SEMINAR

Scene 12.Wasteland outside the Pearly Gate, a month later -- Quasimodo, Mathilda

Scene 13.Transition up Mount Ararat and into the Ark Casino -- Quasimodo, Mathilda, Security, Croupier, Overlord, Cementeria

SONG 2:THE MOUNTAIN CASINO (“I’m out for blood. . .”)

Scene 14.Auction block.Mathilda sold into slavery -- Auctioneer, Mathilda, Young Lady from Wee Care Nails

Scene 15.Quasimodo before the bankruptcy tribunal -- Lord, Quasimodo

Scene 16.Debtor’s Prison with Escape

Scene 17.Wee Care Nail Salon -- Quasimodo, Mathilda

SONG 3:HANG MY HEAD(debtor’s search song, Cementeria Dance as she passed along from man to man)

3. CEMENTERIA, or GIRLFRIEND OF AN UNDERTAKER’S SON, 

another sequel, late 1980’s, United States.

characters:HOST, FATHER, SON, CEMENTERIA/MEGGEN, DINNER GUESTS, QUASIMODO

Scene 1.Phone call between father and son -- Undertaker Father, Son

         Scene 2.Son’s apartment -- Son, Cementeria (Meggen)

 Scene 3.Father’s house, dining room/basement/subbasement -- Father, Son, Cementeria, Nauseated Lady, Dinner Guests, Quasimodo

Scene 4.Basement -- Son, Cementeria, Quasimodo

INCIDENTAL MUSIC 2:The Castle Waltz

SONG 4 (CEMENTERIA):GLAD TO BE LIVING (THINK BIG)

INTERMISSION

ACT TWO

4.DAWN OF THE AGE of ROMANTIC ENLIGHTENMENT.

SEA PASSAGE TO EGYPT, FROM GIBRALTAR TO ALEXANDRIA, NIGHTLY

CABARET

characters:HOST, CREW, PASSENGERS, QUASIMODO, CEMENTERIA, MAN ON BOAT (OCIPITA’S HUSBAND), OCIPITA, MINISTER

Scene 1. Basement transition to cruise ship gangplank

Boarding the good ship Alexandria

SONG 5:TWO LOVERS ON TOMORROW’S ROAD

Scene 2.Cruise Ship Lounge

SONG 6:MEET YOUR MAKER

Scene 3.Cruise Ship Lounge

SONG 7:MODEL (SACRED PIECEMEAL)

Scene 4.Ocipita’s Cabin

SONG 8:THE CAGE IS CHILLY

Scene 5.Tunisian Dessert

SONG 9:PUT ME AWAY (Ocitipa Dance with Mathilda from Act One)

Scene 6.Welcome to Alexandria.Everyone on the ship is transformed

DANCE:Transformed Passengers march down the gang-plank, on parade

5.THE LEGEND OF ISIS AND OSIRIS
characters:HOST, OCIPITA, MINISTER, CEMENTERIA/ISIS, QUASIMODO/OSIRIS, SET, TOURISTS

Scene 1:Presentation

SONG 10:SCATTERING

Scene 2:The Pieces are Talking

(Incidental Music 2 “ISIS CHORDS” & “Peace which Passeth”)

6.CREAMATORIA
characters:QUASIMODO, SET, OCIPITA, ASSYRIAN OSIRIS, TOURISTS, MARBLE COLLEGIATE, SATAN, CEMENTERIA, SONS AND DAUGHTERS OF SATANGERIATRIC WARD

Scene 1:Servant’s Quarter

Scene 2:InfernoSONG 11 and DANCE:CREAMATORIA (“BURN IN THE INFERNO”)

Scene 3:Victorian Home in Exclusive Courtyard within the Pearly Gates

INCIDENTAL 3:“PEACE WHICH PASSETH”

SONG 12:“WISH A WORD”