Hillbarn Theatre Presents Tony Award-Winning Musical 'City of Angels'

The Tony Award winner for "Best Musical," City of Angels by Cy Coleman, will make a rare appearance at the opening of Hillbarn Theatre’s 71^st season in Foster City, Sept. 1-25. 

Set in the glamorous, seductive Hollywood of the 1940s, the world of film studios and filmy negligees, City of Angels features two stories occurring simultaneously - a Hollywood comedy and a detective drama. The “real-life” scenes are in color, and the “reel-life” scenes in black and white.

City of Angels chronicles the misadventures of Hollywood author Stine, and Stine's alter-ego detective, Stone, who sidles through a Hollywood netherworld of vicious thugs and femmes fatales. 
 
The cast of City of Angels features Equity member David Sattler from New York as Stone, David Martin from San Mateo as Stine, Patti Appel from Half Moon Bay as Carla/Alaura, Gina DiRado from San Francisco as Avril/Mallory, Vicki Morgan from San Mateo as Bobbi/Gabby, Corrie Borris from Pleasanton as Donna/Oolie, Michael Carey from San Jose  as Buddy Fiddler, Tyler Bennett from Burlingame as Manny Munoz, and David Navaro from San Francisco as Jimmy, plus Amanda Andrews, Adrienne Tiffany Herro, Rich Matlin, Joey Montes, and Doug Stoveland as the hard-working ensemble. 

The jazz quartet, the "Angel City 4," is an existing group called Sing Theory and features Juliet Green, Dave Duran, Zach "Yahoo" Yaholkosky, and Michelle Hawkins. Sing Theory is a modern vocal quartet, dedicated to uniquely interpreting jazz and pop standards and preserving and developing the art of "vocalese." The quartet is a configuration of familiar faces from the Bay Area vocal jazz scene. Members of the group originally met through the De Anza College jazz ensemble "Vocal Flight," and have sung together in several variations since the mid 1990s, including "+4db," "Vocalese Inc.," "Moodswing," and "Clockwork."

City of Angles, with music by Cy Coleman, lyrics by David Zippel, and book by Larry Gelbart, is directed by Brad Friedman, San Mateo High School’s highly-regarded drama teacher. The show's choreography is by Jayne Zaban of the Dance Arts Center in San Carlos, and the musical direction of the 15-piece live orchestra is by Hillbarn's resident musical director, Greg Sudmeier. 

Memorable songs from the show include You Can Always Count on Me, With Every Breath I Take, and You’re Nothing Without Me.  "Angel City 4" highlights, with featured vocalist David Navarro as Jimmy, will sing Stay With Me and Look Out For Yourself.  David Sattler will also join the quartet in the swingin’ Everybody's Gotta Be Somewhere.
 
City of Angels is presented at Hillbarn Theatre, Sept. 1-25.  Performances are Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays at 8 p.m. and Sundays at 2 p.m.  On opening night, Sept. 2, the theatre will host a gala champagne reception, provided by Chef Bill Chow, after the show. 

For tickets or information, call 650-349-6411 ext. 2, or visit www.HillbarnTheatre.org.