CINEMA VII 2007 ANNUAL REPORT for investors and supporters present and prospective.  

Highlights 2 Actors Equity Showcases of 2 One Acts, one of which staged the script and songs of a new addition to the Cinema VII catalogue, “2.2.2,” the other script and score (“TengagatneT”) receiving its first theater production.  

Venues included

La Mama E.T.C. Mainstage

Manhattan Theatre Source

The Neighborhood Playhouse

The Lambs Club

The Great Hall of the House of the NYC Bar Association

Kirkland and Ellis, LLP

The Lower East Side Festival of the Arts

Theater for the New City

Cold Springs Harbor Library

The Brecht Forum

The Greek Cultural Center

SideWalk Bar-Restaurant

Rockwood Music Hall

Joe’s Pub

Maria Hernandez Park

The New York Society for Ethical Culture

2007 was an unusual year in that it did not begin with great expectations and yet during which a wide range of creative and value-adding events developed, including two shows produced under actor’s equity showcase rules, and a continuation of the ASCAP Plus Award acknowledgement to Peter Dizozza for concert performances of songs. 

Cinema VII’s primary asset is the creative output of Peter Dizozza.   Cinema VII holds and administers the worldwide rights to a wide variety of musical properties and over 270 songs, adding value to them with performances directed toward developers and general audiences.  

In October of 2006 At the Dramatist Guild Frederick Lowe Room we introduced an idea called 2.2.2.  In August of 2007, its full script and score ran for 8 performances at Manhattan Theatre Source under the more attention-gathering title, “Hermaphroditism Through the Ages.”  It was a collaborative effort between Peter Dizozza, Maria Micheles and wordsmith Ed Mallin.  It was a composite of threes, illustrated by a simple graph.

TentagatneT, a play from the La Mama Experiments ’05 Play Reading Series was chosen to receive a full production for four performances at La Mama directed by favorite director George Ferencz.  New York Magazine made it a Critic’s Pick. 

This was the first year under what appeared to be a financially burdensome residence/ ownership situation, resulting in a moderately smooth financial balance that at least provided the illusion of equity.   Peter Dizozza resides as a shareholder in a Coop Apartment Building at 321 East 12th Street.  He joined its board in 2007 and, in addition to leading the refinancing of its underlying mortgage, has helped turn the building into a friendly place.   The coop consists of two mirror buildings of 70 “Class A” residential units, and 10,000 square feet of land.  He holds a 2% interest.  His purchase price of 675,000 currently has an outstanding 30-year loan of 405,000 at 6.5%, and a 0% interest loan principal of 25,000 coming due during 2008.  Theoretically, there is some equity there.  In December of 2007, the mirror apartment at 315 East 12th Street sold for $762,000.

Important people joined the expanding galaxy of stars that assist and inspire.

SAM MOREE

The sculptor/holographic artist Sam Moree expanded his work in photography while documenting the year’s activities, beginning in April of 2007.

MARIA MICHELES

Playwright Maria Micheles showed herself to be much more.  Collaborations on the lower East Side Festival included a new Cinema VII Movie, Good News, and a song with Lyric by Maria for the Miss UnAmerica Pageant, Don't Cry for Me America! 

ED MALIN, Playwright

LYDIA OOGHE , Singer, actor, writer.  

MIKE ALLEN HILL , Singer, actor, dancer, bass player, writer...

J. P. EVANGELISTA , Musicologist, singer, manager of the Middle Eight and some aspects of the Peter Dizozza career.  

GEORGE FERENCZ, Curator and Director of La Mama's Experimenta! Series of 6 Productions from 10 years of its reading series. 

Use of Public Websites. 

YOUTUBE.COM

Under the moto, Broadcast Yourself, Youtube.com provides a platform for easy access to his audio visual documents of most of the events from April to the Present. 

Youtube provides a statistical report that, while created to give its content providers a sense of satisfaction, does also give some idea of the reach, which numbers only in the thousands…

There are 67 videos at http://www.youtube.com/dizozza and 21 videos at http://www.youtube.com/cinemavii

MYSPACE.COM

Myspace continues to be a platform of sorts as well featuring the five minute epic Chimney Flu Heigh Ho in both studio recording and live.  The Love The Law Recording with Liam Glynn and George Parow, a German broadcast of Wallflowers from PconMH and just added, a nostalgic song from 1986 featuring the Seashore called Out at Bay!

BLOGGER.COM

The two sites there are michaeldouglas.blogspot.com and 888.blogspot.com.

CINEMAVII.COM

The Cinema VII website is purely for reference.  In other words, I have no information on traffic there.  However, it provides pages that list the entire cinema vii catalogue of projects including commissions and collaborations, and the entire list of songs.  It also lists the Cinema VII Event Horizon which includes over 50 entries for 2007.

The sections of the website are as follows:  Gallery, Projects, Galaxy, Songs, Sunrise and Sunset Event Horizons, Timeline and Lynx.  

REARWINDOWS.NET

AVIDFORINFO.COM

The other two sites lie mostly dormant but have inspiring domain names and are available for collaborative development.  They are avidforinfo.com and rearwindows.net.  The hosts of Rearwindows.net provide 10 gigabytes of storage which allow it to be an offsite repository. 

While recent material is sounding better than ever, the fact appears to be that once you pass on the budgetary restraints, which in fact diminish the lasting quality of the more superficially commercially viable material available worldwide, you find that there is a consistency of entertainment value throughout the entire Cinema VII catalogue,   However, part of the art of entertainment is the ease and comfort of its ride.  We will continue to increase the friendliness of presentation.

Work providing immediate financial return expanded somewhat.  Many surprises and a variety of odd jobs to increase the money needed to cover the luxury of living alone in a moderately large little apartment/cottage in the East Village.  It would help, of course, if these living arrangements resulted in tremendous productivity.   While there is some doubt in my mind as the seconds pass, the year in review provides great substance to support the claim of productivity.  

There was plenty of singing with great singers, which was most encouraging.  Of course, it helps if the sound of my own singing registers as a notes to the listener, and that is an ability acquired over time.  14 shows were at SideWalk, and most of them were very well attended. 

On the opera level, a surprise collaboration with Adriano and a reuniting with the great mezzo soprano Camille Capasso provided hope for the future. 

The Cinema VII film catalogue includes prints of other’s films, with limited use that helps lift them from obscurity and provide foundation for original material.

We restored the phonograph system in addition to the ¼ inch home tape system for playback.  

Peter Dizozza acted as liaison with the City for the Olive Juice Huggabroomstock Concert in Maria Hernandez Park.

He is Chair of the New York City Bar Association Entertainment Committee.

A Council Member of the Lambs Club. 

You’ll hear Peter Dizozza’s piano on a new album by the band, The Voyces, called Kissing Like It’s Love.

New Catalogue Entries:

SONG CATALOGUE ADDITIONS:

Try It/Cleopatra’s Needle… two lyrics one melody

A Killing on Broadway

Life Swapper Sling Swing

Only for a While

Cacodylic Eye

While You Were Out

 

Settings of Poems by Bertolt Brecht

I Am a Playwright (musical setting written with Lydia Ooghe)

Two Cranes

 

William Butler Yeats

Down by the Sallie Gardens

 

Don't Cry for Me America (Lyric by Maria Micheles)

 

Song of the Cat Lady (Awake Dreaming) Adriano Wilbur

 

Harmonies for Hold On and Let Your Life Begin

Piano reduction of Chamber Score of incidental music for TentagatneT.

 

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