Arts & Entertainment
Backstage Pass: Hillbarn Theatre's 'City of Angels'
Patch reporter Monique Soltani goes backstage for a sneak peek at Hillbarn Theatre's production of the musical 'City of Angels,' which opens tonight.
The 's 71st season is starting off with a trip down south and back in time.
City of Angels brings the Hollywood of an older era back to life. In this video, Foster City Patch's offers viewers a backstage pass to the show, and shows how incorporating a live orchestra is the wind beneath this musical's wings.
The Hillbarn Theatre's 71st season kicks off September 1st with City of Angels, to be followed by Master Class, The Will Rogers Follies, Social Security, Crimes of the Heart, and Flower Drum Song.
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For tickets, call 650-349-6411 or visit hillbarntheatre.org.
City of Angels: Set in the glamorous, seductive Hollywood of the 1940s - the world of film studios and even filmier negligees - this show is two stories occurring simultaneously. The first is a Hollywood comedy, and the second, a detective drama. The “real-life” scenes are in color, and the “reel-life” scenes in black and white. The show chronicles the misadventures of Hollywood author Stine, and his alter-ego Stone, a detective who sidles through a Hollywood netherworld of vicious thugs and femmes fatales. City of Angels is the first Broadway musical hit to have a full-blown jazz score. You’ll swing all the way home!
