CITY OF ANGELS TRAILER
Marty McNamee as Stone, Shayne Steliga as
Lt. Munoz and Ben George as Stine
David Ferrie as Buddy Fidler
Tamara Martinsek as Donna, Ben George as Stine, Stone & Stine
David Ferrie as Buddy Fidler
Marty McNamee as Stone, Laura Monagle as Bobbi
The finale of Windfall
Theatre’s 2014-2015 22nd season of bringing Fearless theatre to
Milwaukee audiences opens Friday, May 1 with the Milwaukee premiere of the multiple Tony Award Winning musical CITY OF ANGELS with lyrics by David
Zippel, music by Cy Coleman and book by Larry Gelbart. CITY OF
ANGELS eight show run is staged in
Windfall Theatre’s intimate performance space located at Village Church Arts,
130 East Juneau Avenue, in the heart of Milwaukee’s downtown theater district.
About the Musical:
Hitting
Broadway in 1989 and running for 800+ performances, with major productions in
London’s West End in 1993 and 2014 CITY
OF ANGELS is a winner of 6 Tony Awards, 8 Drama Desk Awards, 3 Olivier
Awards and an Edgar Allan Poe best play award for Larry Gelbart’s book. CITY OF
ANGELS is a musical comedy homage to 1940’s film noir private eye movies
told in two simultaneous plots, the “real” world of a writer turning his book
into a screenplay and the “reel” world of his characters in the fictional film. Through this convention it deals with the
writer’s integrity and freedom of expression vs. crass commercialism and
content censorship. It’s a saavy and
sassy send up of the pretensions of Hollywood that resonate today.
...an evening in which even a throwaway
wisecrack spreads laughter like wildfire…
Wonderfully wry…the stuff that dreams are made of.”
~ The New York Times
About the Writers:
CITY OF ANGELS team of writers is comprised of two
legends Cy Coleman, music and Larry Gelbart, book and a talented up and coming
lyricist David Zippel. CITY OF ANGELS was Zippel’s first full length
musical. Growing up in Easton, PA he
wrote parody lyrics to pop tunes making fun of his high school teachers. He
attended Harvard Law School to become a theatrical lawyer, but was side tracked
by meeting Barbara Cook’s accompanist Wally Harper who was looking for a
songwriting partner to create music for Ms. Cook’s Carnegie Hall show. Among Zippel’s many honors are Tony and Drama
Desk Awards (City of Angels) and
Academy Awards and Golden Globe Awards (Disney’s Hercules and Mulan and The Swan Princess). He has worked with
many composers including Marvin Hamlisch (The
Goodbye Girl), Phil Collins (Tarzan),
Alan Menken (Hercules), and Andrew
Lloyd Webber (The Woman in White).
Larry Gelbart (1928-2009) a prolific playwright, screenwriter and television writer is most well known as a creator and producer for the record breaking hit TV Show M*A*S*H. He began his career as a writer at age 16 for Danny Thomas’s radio show after Gelbart’s father who was Thomas’s barber showed him some jokes his son had written. During the 1940’s he wrote for Jack Paar and Bob Hope; in the 50’s he wrote for Red Buttons, Sid Caesar and Celeste Holm. He collaborated with Neil Simon, Mel Brooks, Carl Reiner and Woody Allen. He received Oscar nomination for Tootsie and Oh, God! In addition to the long running Broadway hit CITY OF ANGELS, he co-wrote with Stephen Sondheim the long running Broadway smash A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum. In 2002, he was inducted into the American Theatre Hall of Fame and in 2008 he was inducted into the Television Hall of Fame.
About the Ensemble:
Windfall
has assembled a cavalcade of Milwaukee musical theater talent, directed by
Carol Zippel with music direction by Paula Foley Tillen, to take audiences into
CITY OF ANGELS’ film noir, Hollywood
studio system world of the late 1940’s. The
cast of 17 features Ben George as Stine the novelist turned would be
screenwriter; Marty McNamee as Stone the film noir detective; Laura Monagle in
the dual roles of Bobbi/Gabby Stone’s film noir love and Stine’s wife; Tamara
Martinsek in the dual roles of Donna/Oolie the “Girl Friday” with a heart of
cold in the movie and the real world; Amber Smith in the dual roles of Alaura
Kingsley/Carla the lethal film noir femme fatale and the movie mogul Buddy
Fidler’s wife; David Ferrie as Buddy Fidler cut throat movie mogul and star
maker and Irwin S. Irving his film noir alter ego; Shayne Steliga as Lt. Munoz Stone’s
nemesis and Pancho Vargas actor and Hollywood playboy; Alison Pogorelc as the
film noir bad girl Mallory Kingsley and vapid starlet Avril Raines. Filling the
mean streets of LA in the film and Hollywood studio worlds by playing multiple
roles and bringing to life the intricate Jazz harmonies of CITY OF ANGELS evocative score are Cleary Breunig, Doug Clemons,
Mohammad ElBsat, Marcee Doherty-Elst, Christopher Elst, Leslie Fitzwater, Thom
Gravelle, Amanda J. Hull and Matt Zeman.
The
creative team features choreography by Alicia Rice; costume design by Kathleen Smith;
lighting design by Kevin Czarnota, set design by Carol Zippel and Thom
Gravelle, violence design by Christopher Elst, sound design by Mohammad ElBsat
and stage management by Veronica Zahn.
Windfall
Theatre presents
CITY OF ANGELS
Lyrics
by David Zippel, Music by Cy Coleman, Book by Larry Gelbart
May
1-16
(5/1,
5/2, 5/8, 5/9, 5/11, 5/14, 5/15, 5/16)
All Windfall Theatre
performances are at 8pm
At Village Church
Arts, 130 E. Juneau
Tickets $20.00
Box Office:
414-332-3963
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