Prepare to Meet Your Maker is the title of a surrealist musical

Musical theatre

Musical theatre is a form of theatre combining songs, spoken dialogue, acting, and dance. The emotional content of the piece – humor, pathos, love, anger – as well as the story itself, is communicated through the words, music, movement and technical aspects of the entertainment as an...

 mystery play

Mystery play

Mystery plays and miracle plays are among the earliest formally developed plays in medieval Europe. Medieval mystery plays focused on the representation of Bible stories in churches as tableaux with accompanying antiphonal song...

 in six episodes by Peter Dizozza

Peter Dizozza

Peter William Dizozza is a music composer who also produces supplemental material as a writer, pianist, performer, photographer, and filmmaker. Since 2000 he has been the director of the WAH Theater at the Williamsburg Art & Historical Center.Peter William Dizozza was born on September 5, 1958 in...

 inspired by resurrection themes including those associated with Isis

Isis

Isis or in original more likely Aset is a goddess in Ancient Egyptian religious beliefs, whose worship spread throughout the Greco-Roman world. She was worshipped as the ideal mother and wife as well as the matron of nature and magic...

 and Osiris

Osiris

Osiris is an Egyptian god, usually identified as the god of the afterlife, the underworld and the dead. He is classically depicted as a green-skinned man with a pharaoh's beard, partially mummy-wrapped at the legs, wearing a distinctive crown with two large ostrich feathers at either side, and...

. It originated as a series of episodes in 1996 in the East Village of New York City at SideWalk Bar Restaurant, and was directed, staged and choreographed by Tyr Throne and Lisa Dery at La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club

La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club

La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club is an off-off Broadway theatre founded in 1961 by Ellen Stewart, and named in reference to her. Located on Manhattan's Lower East Side, the theatre grew out of Stewart's tiny basement boutique for her fashion designs; the boutique's space acted as a theatre for...

, The Thonre Dance Theater, Baby Jupiter, the basement of the Gustavus Adolphus Church in Gramercy Park (with Charles Herold

Charles Herold

Charles Herold is a video game critic. He wrote the "Game Theory" video game review column for the New York Times from 2000 to 2008, when he left the Times to become the Wii Games Guide at About.com...

 in the lead) and at the Williamsburg Art and Historical Center. It combines elements of the Spanish Mystery Plays of Calderon with resurrection mythology found in the legend of Isis and Osiris, and in various incarnations of Mediterranean necrophilia comic books.

The basic premise in the script is that after an encounter with a baptist, the corpse of Salome is briefly resurrected through a form of icon adoration; and, bluntly stated, by making love to her corpse, a necrophiliac gravedigger temporarily loses his hunched back and stands tall beside her. After escaping a pearly gated community called the ordered world, they (Quasimodo and Cementeria) make a sea voyage from Gibraltar to Alexandria to accept jobs as crypt keepers in a temple of Isis and Osiris.

Its 12 songs include Cementeria, The Mountain Casino, Meet Your Makers, 2 Lovers on 2morrow's Road, Hang My Head, Put Me Away, The Cage is Chilly, Strong for the Man and Wish a Word.
The soundtrack album, produced by Alex Abrash and David Baker, features Tony Hightower and Meghan Burns.