City of Angels (musical)

City of Angels is a film noir style musical comedy with music by Cy Coleman, lyrics by David Zippel, and book by Larry Gelbart. It was set in Los Angeles in the late 1940s and ran on Broadway from 1989 to 1992.

Set in the 1940s, City of Angels is classic detective story with an interesting plot structure. This show presents a writer of such stories, Stine, is having trouble transposing his book onto the big screen. In parallel, one follows the protagonist of the film, Detective Stone, on his adventures... as Stine writes. Many of the characters have a counterparts in the other world, sometimes played by the same actors.

City of Angels also boasts a brilliant jazz score and frequent set changes; it is quite a technically challenging show.