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...housemate from her hippie past, moves to town. His presence both reawakens questions about an old, unsolved murder and kindles in Joey what she has been hungering for: a youthful "sense of a surprise, that heady sense of not knowing" what life will bring. While the lengthy, earnest flashback to the '60s never quite rises above the expected, Joey's return to the '90s fares better. Here, Miller weaves her themes of secrecy, betrayal and forgiveness into a narrative that shines...
...themselves, their very modesty giving them a fragility; at one point Joe's safe wallpapering gig almost spins into disaster when a welfare agent snaps telephoto pics to expose his outside earnings (Joe paints the agent's car). Mullen's performance is ultranaturalistic and eerily dead-on in a flashback to the bad old days (one of the really few directorial intrusions, narrated in hauntingly matter-of-fact fashion by Mullen...
...which just opened at Lincoln Center, is the kind of ambitious musical that can sometimes soar to greatness. It certainly takes a healthy bite out of a juicy story. It relates the case to the South's effort to heal the schisms of the Civil War (in an opening flashback, a Confederate soldier sings of home); portrays the tensions between Frank, a transplanted New Yorker, and his more assimilated Southern-Jewish wife Lucille; and sketches everything from the sensationalistic press coverage to the complex social pressures on the case, in which Frank's chief accuser (and, it now appears...
Other scenes gave some indication that the production was updated for a '90s audience; this may well be the case, as Boston Conservatory faculty member Michelle Chass redid the choreography for this performance. Case in point: a random "flashback" to Donna Lucia's life in the steamy tropical forests of Brazil introduced an unmistakable erotic element into the performance a bit out of keeping with the British conservatism played up by the rest of the musical. Maybe it wouldn't have flown 50 years ago, but it did enliven the stage without being overly out of place...
...begin, you can't lose with City of Angels: it is an ingenious capsule of the LA. myth as known through film noir, delivered with punch and spirit. It works with the typical film noir techniques of flashback, voiceover and femmes fatales, in a cruller of a plot that cult leaders, media moguls, starlets, prostitutes and stepmothers--a veritable buffet of the desperate, despicable and demented, In a musical that can finally be only derivative and parodic, the mainstage production of City of Angles surprises and moves with disarmingly evocative music and a clawingly ambient might only have ever existed...