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Musical: City of Angels by Larry Gelbart, Cy Coleman & David Zippel
Feb. 6, 7, and 8, 7:30 p.m., Wilder Main, 135 W. Lorain St
Tickets the nights of performance are $4 and will be available at the door. Advance tickets are $3 and are available at the desk in Wilder Hall.
For more information, contact Wilder Main at 440-775-8102
Sponsored by the Oberlin Musical Theatre Association
Media
Contact:
Betty.Gabrielli, 440-775-8474
OBERLN COLLEGE STUDENTS TO PRESENT City of Angels FEBRUARY 6, 7, 8
JANUARY 24, 2003--A student production of the Tony-award winning musical City of Angels will be presented February 6, 7, and 8, Thursday through Saturday at 7:30 p.m. in Oberlin College's Wilder Hall under the direction of Lev Rosen ’03.
The winter term musical is the third production to be directed by Rosen at Oberlin--he helmed Arthur Laurent’s Anyone Can Whistle in 2002 and Stephen Sondheim’s A Little Night Music in 2001.
City of Angels is the rarest of musical comedies; one that is not only loaded with music and written in the contemporary jazz idiom, but also filled with sidesplitting comedy.
The wickedly witty musical--written by Larry Gelbart, creator of TV's M-A-S-H--opened on Broadway in 1989. With four-part harmonies by Cy Coleman and lyrics by David Zippel, City of Angels went on to win numerous honors in1990, including the Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle and The New York Drama Critics Circle awards for best musical.
"Not since Woody Allen's The Purple Rose of Cairo has there been such a purposeful juxtaposition of truth and illusion," said USA Today. The sardonic story-within-a-story involve some double identities and cross-plotting between two sets of characters. Stine, a philandering writer is adapting his private-eye novel about tough-guy shamus Stone for megalomaniacal producer-director Buddy Fidler.
The action moves back and forth between the tangible world of Stine's ordeal and the filmic world in which Fidler and company turn up as fictional characters in a film-noir whodunit.
The 26-member cast includes Josh Staley ’03 as Stine; Basil Simon '06 as Detective Stone; Harlo Holmes ‘05 as Bobbi, a lounge singer and Gaby, Stine’s wife; Lauren Flicker ’04 as Oolie, Stone’s secretary, and as Donna, Buddy’s secretary; Kate Rankin ‘06 as femme fatale Alaura; and Brian Wonch ‘06 as Buddy Fidler.
Working with Rosen on the production are Rachel Sass ’03, assistant director/choreographer; Daniel Rodriguez ’06, music director; Leah Frank ’06 stage manager; Abby Stone ’05, assistant director; and Beau Mahurin ’06, assistant music director.
Media Contact: Betty Gabrielli
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