 City of Angels
a jazz musical
Book by Larry Gelbart, Music by Cy Coleman, Lyrics by David Zippel
July 16-August 16, 2009
NSC concludes its season with the quintessential Hollywood musical, City of Angels. This modern masterpiece features top-shelf muscular jazz music by the great Cy Coleman, a complex book jam-packed with laughs by legend Larry Gelbart, and razor sharp lyrics by David Zippel. The show is two shows in one with the story of writer adapting a noir novel into a screenplay in the colorful, manipulative Hollywood of the ‘40s, and interweaving the black and white enactment of that smoky 20’s whodunit screenplay. Due to its intense set, technical, and musical demands, City of Angels is rarely produced. NSC Artistic Director is proud to unveil a radical reconception of the show, setting it on a movie soundstage, with new arrangements including a vocal-orchestral component by NSC vet Steven Milloy, as well as film and multimedia elements.
“One of the most innovative, brilliant, perfect, breathtaking, entertaining pieces of theatre I have ever seen. The lyrics by David Zippel are bright and diamond hard.”
-New York Daily News
“There’s a miracle on Broadway, an American musical, with American wisecracks and an original American script. It’s smart, swinging, sexy and funny. Wit is all over the stage.”
-Newsweek
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