The Man from Utopia is an album by American musician Frank Zappa, released in March 1983 by Barking Pumpkin Records. The album is named after a 1950s song, written by Donald and Doris Woods, which Zappa covers as part of "The Man from Utopia Meets Mary Lou". Production "The Dangerous Kitchen", "Mōggio" and "The Jazz Discharge Party Hats" were all prepared for Zappa's unreleased album Chalk Pie. The album was the second of two to credit Steve Vai with "impossible guitar parts", the first album being the preceding album Ship Arriving Too Late to Save a Drowning Witch (1982). Cover Read more on Last.fm.