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CRYSTAL FIELD (1942 - ) |
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Nationality: USA Email: n/a Website: n/a |
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Plays by Crystal Field |
Bamboozled, or The Real Reality Show | ||
| 1st Produced: | TNC, East 10th Street at 1st Avenue, NY | 06 Aug 2011 | ||||
Company: | Theater For The new City | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #131046 | |||
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Genre: | Operetta for the Street | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | seven songs, a five-piece live band, and a company of 50 | |||||
Notes: | written and directed by Crystal Field, music composed by Joseph Vernon Banks | |||||
Synopsis: | Our hero is a Local Postman, whose route runs from 74th to 81st Street, and along Roosevelt Avenue. Day after day, week after week, he delivers the mail. In snow and Rain and Summer Heat, the mail must go on-He is reliable! There!-A Rock of responsibility! And the perks of the job are there too! Oh, the Happiness of the Birthday Card! The joy of the News of the Newborn! The Sweet Romance of the Marriage Invitation! But this year there is a terrible change-The pink slips, the Bankrupt Businesses. The Medicare reductions. The teacher layoffs, the Hospital closings, the Firehouse closings, the Library closings-The Library! His local Library! His second home-Closed! And this, along with condolences in Japanese and those back-addressed to Arizona! The weight of the mail hangs heavy on this Postman. There he sits, in front of his television set-watching Reality shows-Jersey Shore, Deadliest Catch, Sarah Palin's Alaska, Real Housewives of New York City-once in a while, the news, but the Tsunamis, tornadoes, floods, droughts, the Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the war against terror, the wars where we're not really there, but somehow we're bombing them to pieces, haunt him. Haunt his dreams and corrupt his reality. Suddenly, there appears before him, Mephisto Diablo, the Rock n' Roll King of the Underworld, who reveals to him the Faustian Contract we have made with Nuclear Power. You are America! Lord and Master of the World. Who, Me!?-I'm just a Postal worker-A community minded citizen from Jackson Heights, Queens. Why does it all fall on my head?! A fugitive from the future screams out what he has seen, and pleads not to be sent back, Not back to the Future! No! No! But Mephisto sings him away, and the Postman flies with him to see a people-less Planet-A silent world-with nothing but grasses and overhanging trees, and little animals scurrying here and there, and the only vestige of Human Civilization&a few Pokemon characters left over from a digital remix. BAMBOOZLED, or, THE REAL REALITY SHOW tells us just how a strong young man, slipping quickly towards middle age, can find his way out of the maelstrom of Bad news, towards a brighter, more harmonious planet. That is the circumstance and ever-unfolding plot that lays before us. The possibility of a cleaner, more harmonious planet. And sure enough, this hero fools the Devil and reminds us that a really good postman will ring three times if he has to, and even knock the door down if smoke is billowing from inside the house, and a person is screaming for Help! Away from the power mad search for world domination, to the Alternative Power of the Sun-The Wind and the unfailing power of the people. | |||||
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Biotech | ||
| 1st Produced: | Theater for the New City | 05 Aug 2000 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #119738 | |||
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Genre: | n/a | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | What happens when scientist cross a man's penis with a potato - Dick Tatter | |||||
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Buckle My Shoe, or Terror Firma | ||
| 1st Produced: | Manhattan - TNC, NY | 2007 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #69873 | |||
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Genre: | 60 min Musical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | book and lyrics by Crystal Field; music by Joseph-Vernon Banks | |||||
Synopsis: | Theater for the New City's Street Theater Company opens its 31st annual tour with Buckle My Shoe, or Terror Firma, a musical which will tour New York City streets, parks and playgrounds throughout the five boroughs. This synopsis is from the press materials: "This year, with World Music, a rousing book and characters from Mark Twain, Buckle My Shoe, or Terror Firma looks at the possibility of world peace or world devastation and global warming versus global conservation. It urges, "One two, buckle my shoe, Three four out the door. The people of the United States, buckle up and throw all the war mongers out the door." | |||||
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Gone Fission, or Alternative Power | ||
| 1st Produced: | Theater for the New City | 31 Jul 2010 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #117513 | |||
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Genre: | Musical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | large cast | |||||
Notes: | Music By Joseph Vernon Banks; Book and Lyrics By Crystal Field | |||||
Synopsis: | This is Theater for the New City's annual street theater musical. When an out-of-work Account Executive takes a survival job as a Census Taker, he visits a fish restaurant. A hurricane transforms the place to a Louisiana Bayou, where Father Neptune is conducting a summit with the creatures of the sea. He sees that the human race is an important part of the Animal Kingdom and learns "dissenting" notions he would have considered fishy, like offshore drilling is disgraceful and that you shouldn't dig for coal by lopping off the top of a mountain. He even learns there are alternative lifestyles to world domination and empire building. The operetta features a Las Vegas style Can-Can number called "Investors' Russian Roulette" and a Sea Creatures Anthem, "We Are The Animals." The sea creatures are played by actors in gigantic fish costumes. The mountain plays itself. There are seven production numbers, a live five-piece band and a company of 50 | |||||
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Homecoming | ||
| 1st Produced: | Off Off Broadway | 1986 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #97535 | |||
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Genre: | Musical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Music by Mark Hardwick and Skip LaPlante; lyrics and book by Crystal Field, George Bartineiff, Michael David Gordon, Mark Marcante, Marie McKinny and Ben Silver. Conceived by Keith King | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
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It's the Economy Stupid!, or The Turning Point | ||
| 1st Produced: | Various public spaces in all five boroughs, NY | 2008 | ||||
Company: | Theater for the New City | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #87367 | |||
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Genre: | Musical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | book and lyrics Crystal Field; music David Tice | |||||
Synopsis: | The piece recounts the New Yorkization of the misfit angel Gabriel, who rides earthward on a bad dream to warn the inhabitants that the fate of their planet is in their hands. He must overcome the villainous Electric Man, messenger of the Dark Force, and save the world | |||||
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Man of Wax | ||
| 1st Produced: | a mobile theatre in various locations in New York | 1985 | ||||
Company: | Theater for the New City Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #97536 | |||
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Genre: | Musical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Music by Mark Hardwick; lyrics by Crystal Field; book by Crystal Field and George Batienieff | |||||
Synopsis: | Ronald Reagan - Man of Wax | |||||
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Social Insecurity | ||
| 1st Produced: | Theater for the New City, 155 First Avenue, New York, NY 10009 >>> | 2005 | ||||
Company: | Theater for the New City | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #81708 | |||
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Genre: | n/a | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | written by Crystal Field, Joseph Vernon Banks | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
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Tally Ho!, or Navigating the Future | ||
| 1st Produced: | Various locations throughout NYC | 2009 | ||||
Company: | Theater for the New City | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #101480 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | This is Theater for the New City's annual street theater musical, presented for free at various locations (mostly outdoors) around NYC. This description is provided by the company: "The musical is a morality play about how America, facing financial failure, must set a course through the uncertainty of what's to come. Two accountants-one clever and ambitious, the other sensible and caring-exemplify citizens gripped by our nationwide financial disaster. The status-seeking, flashier one jumps on the speculative bandwagon and prospers with each successively greater scheme. The steady, responsible one takes the low road, but the economy is at the mercy of the passions of the day. The innocent go broke with the guilty. Everyone is buried in a vast mountain of useless commercial paper and misinformation. There's hell to pay, with investors, financiers, and Ponzi addicts going head-to-head in a colossal food fight with seltzer squirting and pie throwing. The two accountants end up in the headlock of a burly muscleman who personifies History. He takes them on a 1930s adventure to witness how New Deal idealism is undermined by modern political canoodling." | |||||
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