Frank Zappa -1999 04 16 FZ's Joe's Garage - Multimedia Rock Opera - DVD, (w. Ike Willis)

DVD: "Frank Zappa's Joe's Garage (Criminal Mix)"

1 hour, 57 minutes and 8 seconds

Performed and filmed 1999/04/16, Cosmosis Productions performed Frank Zappa's "Joe's Garage" as a live stage adaptation. The show featured a 7-piece band (feat. Ike Willis as a special guest), 6 modern dancers, a full cast of 10, a larger-than-life Scrutinizer, projections featuring character and digital animation, and quadraphonic sound design.

Produced at the University of Michigan, it tapped the fertile talents of over 50 students from virtually every department of the University. Integrating live and pre-produced video, character and computer animation, installation art, dance musical theater and the rock band The Element (with a guest appearance by Ike Willis).

Shot with 6 DV cameras, the show has been edited and put on DVD.

Cosmosis Productions "Joe's Garage" was the world premier stage adaptation of Frank Zappa's 1979 concept album by the same name. The show explored a censored world of Orwellian "Total Criminalization." Following the exploits of an average teenager named Joe, the audience was led through an odyssey of socially and politically charged scenarios. Religious cults, sexual fetishists, Catholic schoolgirls, rock and roll critics, the record industry, government propaganda and corrupt politicians all became the objects of Zappa's satire.

NOTE: "Mary Don't Go" (lyrics: Joe Grossman [director of the show], music: Jordan Shapiro [musical director of the show]).

Jordan Shapiro was later hired by touring Zappa tribute Project/Object for keyboard duties from 2000-2002.

Seeded by wugglypoo at zappateers http://zappateers.com January 10th 2006

Act I:
Total Criminalization
Central Scrutinizer
Joe's Garage
Catholic Girls
Crew Slut
Wet T-Shirt Nite
Toad-o Line
Why Does It Hurt When I Pee?
Lucille Has Messed My Mind Up

Act II
Token Of My Extreme
Stick It Out
Sy Borg
Outside Now
He Used To Cut The Grass
Packard Goose
Watermelon in Easter Hay
Green Rosetta
Keep It Greasy

CREDITS:

Director: Joe Grossman
Music Director: Jordan Shapiro
Production Manager: Lee Selig
Choreographer: Heather Berkin
Art Directors: Stephanie Erdel and Geoff Bell
Video Scrutinization: dje

Imepersonators:
Joe - Michael Rubenstone
Mary - Cian Coey
Central Scrutinizer/Father Riley: Chris Sederstrom
Larry - Bryan Gibson
Master Portion Controller - Rachel Hoffman
Sy Borg/Jan - Jristen Mahon
Mark - Jess Chestnut
L. Ron Hoover - Eric Roth
Lucille - Liz Riga

Dancers:
Michael Phillips