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Cy Coleman, David Zippel, and Larry Gelbart’s 'City of Angels' made history during its original 1989 Broadway premiere at the Virginia Theatre, running for 879 performances and sweeping six major Tony Awards including Best Musical. Conceived as a brilliant, split-stage pastiche that shifts between a black-and-white Film Noir universe and a color-drenched 1940s Hollywood studio reality, the clever plot tracks a blocked detective novelist as he battles a tyrannical film director who is sanitizing his script, while his fictional private eye alter-ego navigates a web of femme fatales. Directed by Michael Blakemore, the premiere starred James Naughton, Gregg Edelman, and Randy Graff.

