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AUTHORS: MUSIC BY MARVIN HAMLISCH; LYRICS BY DAVID ZIPPEL; BOOK BY NEIL SIMON...
...movie about the bumpily blossoming romance between a single mother and a quirky actor forced to share an apartment and a succession of setbacks. Adding to the buzz were Simon's collaborators: Marvin Hamlisch, composer of Broadway's longest-running show ever, A Chorus Line, and David Zippel, whose lyrics for City of Angels were the wittiest in years. Graciela Daniele, a six-time Tony nominee, was recruited to mount musical numbers. The leads were cast with Bernadette Peters, the reigning diva of musicals, and Martin Short, an effervescent TV and film comic making his Broadway debut. So potent...
CITY OF ANGELS Music by Cy Coleman; Lyrics by David Zippel...
...genre. In telling the Hollywood side of the story, however, he is at times as snide as in his just closed satire of Iran-contra, Mastergate. But when he becomes cranky about the writer's woeful lot, the show is redeemed by the wit and humanity of David Zippel's lyrics and the zip of Cy Coleman's score, which delights in the past without sinking to pastiche except, maybe, in the close- harmony numbers of a group resembling the Modernaires...
Ravenal's script and David Zippel's lyrics litter the biblical myth of creation with the world of cliches that has since accumulated around the lives of men and women. The primeval couple of this musical are jaded about the facts of life before they've even had any practice with them. Their delight in the proverbial saws that sprout in their minds as spontaneously as noxious weeds and the stereotypical sex roles they struggle to come to terms with contrast ludicrously with the tolerant anarchy of their natural environment. But SIN slathers on too many platitudes, using them with...