OFFICIAL ZAPPA'S UNIVERSE SOUVENIR PROGRAM

editor/compiler unknown. Willow Grove (USA), Cal Schenkel Artwerks for Metropolitan Entertainment & Polygram Diversified Entertainment at The Ritz, New York, for 7–9 november 1991. a machine-numbered edition of unique copies of unknown limitation (this copy nr.529 – of 1ooo?).

 

9 x 12 envelope printed offset recto only, sealed rear with approx.5-1/2 x 4 number-stamped offset label, containing 13 fascicles:

i) small (2-1/2 x 2) painted canvas swatch trim from production backdrop

ii) 1-1/4 x 2 colour swatch

iii) set of 6 photocopy 3 x 3-3/4 performer bio cards in (possibly broken) elastic band

iv) a folded & torn piece of map

v) 5-1/2 x 4 photocopy return postcard with copy number verso

vi) approx.2-1/2 x 17 strip of the offset poster for the event with list of Orchestra Of Our Time members on verso

vii) 5-3/4 x 3-3/4 photocopy broadsheet with photoportrait of Joel Thome & Zappa, bios rear

viii) 8-1/2 x 2-3/4 photocopy broadside bio of Maureen McNally

ix) Frank Zappa, a b c; 5-3/4 x 8-3/4, stapled selfwrappers, 166 pp printed offset with laid in folded 8-1/2 x 11 broadsheet of further material &8-1/2 x 3-1/4 photocopy broadsheet (recto with offset under) of errata; the collected lyrics from the performances, designed, collaged & covered by Cal Schenkel, 32 texts in all (including Drop Dead, I Come From Nowhere, Jesus Thinks You're A Jerk, Oh No!, Sofa, The Dangerous Kitchen...)

x) approx.9 x 17 offset broadsheet, reduced (blacks only) version of Schenkel's poster with song list on verso

xi) 11 x 8-1/2 offset broadsheet, Schenkel's set design notes

xii) 8-1/2 x 11 photocopy broadsheet, credits pages

xiii) 11-1/2 x 8-3/4 offset broadside, 2-colour graphic by Schenkel.

this describes the copy i've opened: this unopened copy is bound to be at least a little different. from the rear of fascicle vii: "...THOME got together with [Alexander] Calder and [Virgil] Thomson in 1975 to revive the [Erik] Satie work [Socrate], arranged for the reconstruction of the lost Calder mobile set, gained the sculptor's approval for it, and conducted the acclaimed memorial performance of Socrate in 1977, a year after Calder's death... preserved and protected the reconstructed set through the years... fashioned works of two iconclasts (Zappa and Satie) into the current production of ZAPPA'S UNIVERSE... arranged the Zappa pieces and is conducting all the music on both sides of the program". bearing a unique portrait of Zappa by Schenkel in blue marker on rear of envelope, signed & dated "92", Frank playing a guitar that's behaving like Plastic Man, an eyeball-plant watching from its pot on the table.

 

45o.oo

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