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Crystal Field

CRYSTAL FIELD

  (1942 - )
Nationality:    USA
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below is a list of Crystal Field's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         99% Reduced Fat, Or, You Can Bank On Us         Bamboozled, Or the Real Reality Show         Biotech         Buckle My Shoe, Or Terror Firma         Gone Fission, Or Alternative Power         Homecoming         It's the Economy Stupid!, Or the Turning Point         Man Of Wax         Social Insecurity         Squeegee         Tally Ho!, Or Navigating the Future

99% Reduced Fat, Or, You Can Bank On Us

Synopsis:
a gang member learns to fight for his community and morphs into a civic leader in 99% Reduced Fat, or, You Can Bank On Us, theater for the New City's 36th annual Street theater musical, which will tour City streets, parks and playgrounds throughout the five boroughs in free performances. It's the saga of a tough young man named B.C., known for stealing tires and bullying store owners, who falls for Suzy Freedom, a young and oh-so-innocent activist in Zuccotti Park. Guided by her dreams, he abandons hooliganism to become a community organizer.
- nytheatre.com

Notes:
Book & Lyrics By: Crystal Field; Music By: Joseph Vernon Banks

1st Produced:
Various locations in all five boroughs of new york    04 Aug 2012

Organisations:
Theater for the New City

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
60 min musical

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Bamboozled, Or the Real Reality Show

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.

Notes:
written And directed by Crystal Field, music composed by Joseph Vernon Banks

1st Produced:
TNC, East 10th Street at 1st avenue, NY    06 Aug 2011

Organisations:
Theater For the new City

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Operetta for the Street

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  seven songs, a five-piece live band, and a company of 50

Further Reference:
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Biotech

Synopsis:
What happens when scientist cross a man's penis with a potato - Dick Tatter

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Theater for the New City
155 First avenue, New York, NY 10009    05 Aug 2000

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Buckle My Shoe, Or Terror Firma

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."
- nytheatre.com

Notes:
book And lyrics by Crystal Field; music by Joseph-Vernon Banks

1st Produced:
Manhattan - TNC, NY    2007

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
60 min Musical

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Gone Fission, Or Alternative Power

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
- nytheatre.com

Notes:
Music By Joseph Vernon Banks; Book And Lyrics By Crystal Field

1st Produced:
Theater for the New City
155 First avenue, New York, NY 10009    31 Jul 2010

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Musical

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  large cast

Further Reference:
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Homecoming

Synopsis:
-

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

1st Produced:
Off Off Broadway    1986

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Musical

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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It's the Economy Stupid!, Or the Turning Point

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
- press release

Notes:
book And lyrics Crystal Field; music David Tice

1st Produced:
Various public spaces in all five boroughs, NY    2008

Organisations:
Theater for the New City

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Musical

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Man Of Wax

Synopsis:
Ronald Reagan - Man of Wax

Notes:
Music by Mark Hardwick; lyrics by Crystal Field; book by Crystal Field And George Batienieff

1st Produced:
a mobile Theatre in various locations in New York    1985

Organisations:
Theater for the New City Company

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Musical

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Social Insecurity

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
written by Crystal Field, Joseph Vernon Banks

1st Produced:

Organisations:
Theater for the New City

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Squeegee

Synopsis:
A rich kid has an adventure in the caverns below the West Side Highway

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Tour of New York's Five Boroughs    1994

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Youth play

Parts:
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Tally Ho!, Or Navigating the Future

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 Organisations: "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."
- nytheatre.com

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Various locations throughout NYC    2009

Organisations:
Theater for the New City

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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