1 September 2001 -- Soundtrack played by Kenny Davidsen, Brian Wayne and John Kessel with members of the original cast in production, recorded and produced by Alex Abrash and David Baker, mixed on 4 May 2002.
PTMYM99
1997 Photos Below!
On a Strange Folk Sunday -- Bastille Day, 1996 -- at Lach's
Fort at The SideWalk Bar-Restaurant in the East Village of NYC, Peter
Dizozza and Lisa Dery introduced "Prepare to Meet Your
Maker," a heavenly musical that consists of 9
dances and 12 songs, in which Quasimodo and Cementeria, a gravedigger and a
corpse, revitalize and invigorate each other through the miracle of
interpersonal contact.
Audiences witness the transformation of the two at their first meeting, the loss at their separation, and watch in satisfaction as they reunite to re-enact the resurrection passion play of Isis & Osiris, all in furtherance of their ultimate goal, a comfortable home within the exclusive, pearly gated community of the Ordered World.
On July 13, 1997, Prepare to Meet Your Maker returned to SideWalk to celebrate its eighth performance.
The following photos of the show are by Fort photographer Bob Strain. The performers include Peter Dizozza, Erika Bell, Jamie Cosnowsky, Charles Herold, Kerrigan Webb and Debra Wakefield.
In the performance at 22 Below Cabaret the role of Quasimodo was played by
Charles
Herold.—
—After necropheliac bashers banish Quasimodo (originally played by Peter)
from the Ordered World, he enlists Mathilda to help him find Cementeria.
Whom she helped to realize
That hers is the
keyholeTo youth regained.
As long as we keep loving
Each other we'll be well!
So too will all be well with the world."
NEW PHOTOS by BOB STRAIN from the Eighth Performance featuring Erika Belle, Lisa Dery, Peter Dizozza, Dan Emery, Steve Espinola, Charles Herold, Andrew Uhlenhopp, Tyr Throne & Debra Wakefield -- with LITTLE OSCAR on percussion:
1. "And
then will you ...."
2. "I
won't baptize you that way, young lady."
3. "As
long as we keep . . ."
4. "87,
do I hear 87. 87? 86? 86! Sold for $86,000 to the lady from the Wee Care Nail
Salon."
5. "Hang
my head and fly to the lord!"
6. Ocipita
meets Mathilda.
7.Isis to Osiris: "Stay
still. If I keep prodding there you'll grow your own."
8. "Thank
you, Lisa Dery, for playing Cementeria."
For a cast list with links click here.
For an essay on Quasimodo and Cementeria and the issue of
consent, click
here.
Related reading: The Making of
Prepare to Meet Your Maker
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