| Descriptions from the ~dizozza website, 1997 | |
| I. Prepare
to Meet Your Maker Heavenly musical in 6 Episodes with Cementeria and Quasimodo (corpse and gravedigger) resurrecting each other while touring the world religions. Surrealist. 12 songs, 9 dances, text. Locales: Ordered World / Limbo / United States / Mediterranean / Alexandria. Other Characters: Mathilda, Ocipita. VOCAL SCORE, SOUNDTRACK PRICE: US $12.00 ---- View the photoplay! |
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| II. Kingdom Come Musical in 17 scenes (17 songs). Indentured Servitude in Forest Hills Gardens, the year 2020, two couples, slaves and masters, with marriages.Locales: Lewis Stone House/Queen of Martyrs Church/Frederic Olmsted’s Forest Hills Gardens, New York. VOCAL SCORE PRICE: $8.00 |
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| III. Pro-Choice on Mental Health A 7 song cycle (Let Me Be, No Problem There, Beached, The Poet &the Painter, The Song of Laughter & Forgetting, Home Inn Time, Wallflowers) with monologue and mini-play, "You are what you Eat" Locations: Manhattan, upstate clinic (spa). Psychiatrists. Insurance forms. Pharmacists. Food and Drug Administration. -- See also # XXIX, Song Cycle Monologues. Related song cycle: The Functionally Insane; Free Psychiatry SONG CYCLE PRICE: $8.00 |
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| IV. Stormcloud Novel. Underground filmmakers Vargas and Souiel gain fame and notoriety from cinematically innovative film in which one of them kills an actress. Awards Ceremony, planes, bisexual relationships, torrential rain, new civilization of apes.Fictitious locales include City of Dieledon, Miriam Peninsula, The Clairol Hotel, Maxwell House University and Affe Park -- includes outline with decrypting page. PAPERBACK PRICE: $20.00 |
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| V. The
Resurrection Novel. Four students' rite of passage through pitfalls of pre-inflationary 70’s. Richmond Hill, Long Island Rail Road, Arch Bishop Malloy High School. First encounters with sex, drugs and God. PAPERBACK PRICE: $10.00 |
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| VI. Mark of the Librarian Novel. Jane finds other half while researchers observe. Paul Klapper library at Queens College closes and a new Cyber library on the other side of campus replaces it in time for the New Year. Inspired by Thomas Mann’s Blood of the Wahlsungs. PAPERBACK PRICE: $5.00 |
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| VII. Sadder
Yesterday, Dealing with My
Friends, Briarwood, Rock
to Sand, Pigeon Head Steak and Potatoes Band, 5 Song Cycle. Crazy Ophelia daughter brings together divorced couple in Nassau County, Long Island. Includes prints of three etchings and colored pencil drawings. Temporarily out of stock |
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| VIII. Witchfinders Irvington on the Hudson, Gerard Manley Hopkins styled poetic novel with Octagon house, backwards ending (Future determined by past.). Switching spell, the consolation prize of knowing. Kidsight. PAPERBACK PRICE: $5.00 |
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| IX. The
Last Dodo Husband and safari friend return to wife and daughter with dodo. 1913 Teddy Roosevelt Museum of Natural History, Mauritanius Islands. Waldorf Safari Bar. Winged man. Missoni fashion model. STORY OUTLINE PRICE: $2.00 |
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| X. Angels:
Tour of the Vultures Movie. Bayridge, Candlewood Isle, following in surgeon’s footsteps, or maybe not. SCREENPLAY PRICE: $12.00 |
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| XI. Morocco/Meantime Novel. Paulette Babcock. Attorney Tommy Morocco pays for not adopting Paulette as a child , by falling in love with her later, when she's grown to be a threatened femme fatale. PAPERBACK PRICE: $12.00 |
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| XII. Why Fight It? Novel. Island on Stetton Bay between Germany and Poland becomes Hitler's spy post as inhabitants react or ignore invasion of their placid semi-resort community. “Hippie” Teen revolutionaries recruit pre-pubescent protesters for army to fight back. 1939 PAPERBACK PRICE: $8.00 |
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| XIII. The Amphibious Life Manmade Lake Candlewood, electricity generating damn flooded river villages and turned some inhabitants into ageless amphibians. 1910/1970 PAPERBACK PRICE: $8.00 |
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| XIV. The
Ruins Movie. Two boys, Eddie Dimaio (11) and Peter Dizozza (13), spook each other along abandoned railroad tracks. SCREENPLAY PRICE: $12.00 |
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| XV. The
Eleventh Hour Ghost visits lonely boy at estate of divorced mother. Glen Cove, Manhasset. In the style of a "Made for TV Musical" set to the Bacharach/David Score for Lost Horizon. SCREENPLAY PRICE: $12.00 |
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| XVI. The Augusteia Three act opera, "Fading Colors," "The Crawdles" and "Almost Even." Mayberry. Brother and Sister "Romance" and separation. Augee, Lisa ejected from three homes starting with their parents’ when older brother Matthew burns it down.. Also elderly neighbor, Mrs. Crawdles and cobbler. Temporarily out of stock |
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| XVII. Steinway Street Musical. Unwed Latisha (17) joins Mississippi Librarian (27) Ken, whom she meets while he's visiting Steinway piano factory. Leaves her baby (2 months) with mom to join him in his tour of Manhattan Hotel Lobbies where older man becomes interested in them both. Astoria Queens, Manhattan, Jackson Mississippi. Latisha’s teenage boyfriend returns and he and her mother raise her child. Temporarily out of stock |
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| XVIII. The Hawk's Nest Inspired by "Octascope," a short story by Ann Beattie. Mom and Daughter claimed by friend of puppetmaker, puppetmaker. Temporarily out of stock |
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| XIX. Gunshy 15 minute musical encounter with William Saroyan types, Pete (son), Carol (mom) and Max (diner guy) at an Edward Hopper Diner in Saddle River New Jersey. Lyrics by Jim Vogel. VOCAL SCORE PRICE: $18.00 |
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| XX. Sonnebaum/Meantime The nouveau riche party girl, Paula Barflavov, attends law school and terrorizes older night student while introducing him to popular culture. Thomas Sonnenbaum. Temporarily out of stock |
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| XXI. Skinny Black Girl with Braces Jamaican Jewish divorce with backdrop of drug peddling along "Fifth Avenue" of Brooklyn. Winter. Dry heat. Nose bleeds. Lincoln Place, Eastern Parkway. PAMPHLET PRICE: $2.00 |
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| XXII. Variety Backlash/The Functionally
Insane Tape collection of songs and readings. COLLECTION PRICE: $5.00 |
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| XXIII. Hasty Recovery:
Schizophrenic encounters unrecovered self. also: piano pieces. COLLECTION PRICE: $5.00 |
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| XXIV. 28IF The Abbey Road license plate. 6 descriptions in as many paragraphs. PAMPHLET PRICE: $6.00 |
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| XXV. Shipping
the Satellite Offsetting profits from Abu Dhabi defense convention, Lockheed Martin CEO, donates satellite to Paulette, on-line TV promoter/lover, who drives it by truck to a launch off Cape Canavaral. PLAY PRICE: $3.00 |
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| XXVI. The
Peace Mission Imagine Jesus being sent to earth because his father wants to teach him a lesson. Aliens Dexter and Diedre, sent by their parents as peace providers and challenged by earthly existence. PLAY PRICE: $8.00 |
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| XXVII. The Loved One Short musical theatre piece for solo voice depicting morning, noon and night atop a lone plateau. SCORE PRICE: $5.00 |
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| XXVIII. A Memory Song for the last scene of Eugene O’Neill’s Mourning Become Electra. SONG PRICE: $2.50 |
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XXIX. Song Cycle Monologues,
"Exploring an Attraction to Things that Spin," "When the
Kangaroos Come out," "The Blood of a Poet," "The
Philosopher's Stone," "The Secret to Good Sex" |
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| XXX. Legs Like These, Neil
Ericksen's adaptation of The Myth of Atalanta, music by Peter Dizozza. Currently N/A |
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