City of Angels
Shows · City of Angels
City of Angels is a satirical musical comedy with music by Cy Coleman, lyrics by David Zippel, and a book by Larry Gelbart. The show takes a critical look at Hollywood through the eyes of Stine, a successful writer who is adapting his latest novel into a film.
- Opened
- 1989
- Performances
- 878
- Type
- Musical
- Era
- Megamusical
Won the Tony Award for Best Musical, 1990.
Productions1 on Broadway
| 1989 | Virginia Theatre Original. December 11, 1989 · Michael Blakemore | 879 performances · 1 Tony wins |
Every Broadway staging held in broadway-data, sourced to IBDB. West End runs are not yet held.
Recordings 3 albums held
Licensing 2 entries
| US | Concord Theatricals Tams-Witmark | available |
| UK | Concord Theatricals Tams-Witmark | available |
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A new production of the hit musical Shenandoah failed to run as long as the original, but it was followed by the successful musical City of Angels, which won six Tony Awards: Best Musical, Best Score (Cy Coleman, David Zippel), Best Book (Larry Gelbart), Best Actor in a Musical (James book:at-this-theatre-100-years-of-broadway-shows-stories-and-botto-louis-viagas-rober#p220
City of Angels ran 878 performances here from 1989 to 1992, setting a new house record. book:at-this-theatre-100-years-of-broadway-shows-stories-and-botto-louis-viagas-rober#p221
Shows that have opened cold include City of Angels. book:broadway-musicals-the-101-greatest-shows-of-all-time-bloom-ken-1949-vlastnik-fra#p230
HE MUSICAL 1776 BELONGS TO that rare breed of show in which the libretto is stronger than the score. This isn't to say that 1776 has a bad score, but the libretto could conceivably stand alone, without Sherman Edwards’s contributions. There are a few other shows, very few, in which the librettos stand out as the premie… book:broadway-musicals-the-101-greatest-shows-of-all-time-bloom-ken-1949-vlastnik-fra#p290
By the later 1990s, Prince had received more Tony Awards, twen... (incomplete but relevant) book:enchanted-evenings-the-broadway-musical-from-show-boat-block-geoffrey-oxford-new#p406
11 December: City of Angels, with book by Larry Gelbart and score by composer Cy Coleman and lyricist David Zippel, opens at the Virginia Theater and runs for 879 performances. book:historical-dictionary-of-the-broadway-musical-volume-22-william-a-everett-paul-r#p31
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