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Costume Design and Production for City of Angels Book by Larry Gelbart, Music by Cy Coleman, and Lyrics by David Zippel

Cagle, Natalie Kenra
http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0955-0749
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1437645350

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2015, Master of Fine Arts, Ohio State University, Art.
The purpose of this paper is to document the costume design and production process for Larry Gelbart, Cy Coleman, and David Zippel’s musical City of Angels, a co-production of The Ohio State University’s Department of Theatre and School of Music, directed by A. Scott Parry, the School of Music’s Director of Opera and Lyric Theatre. The musical was presented in the Thurber Theatre at The Ohio State University campus in Columbus, Ohio, October 30, 2014 through November 9, 2014. City of Angels is a fast-paced musical comedy that weaves together two reflexive plots set in the heart of the Los Angeles film industry, one in the `real world’ of the writer as his book becomes a screenplay, “City of Angels”, and the other in the `reel world’ of the fictional film on the big screen. The musical is in homage to the film noir genre and relies heavily on American jazz elements from the same period during World War II. Designs for the production are to be derived from film noir movies such as Sunset Boulevard, in addition to contemporary movies reflecting life in Hollywood’s `Golden Age’, such as Sin City and Gangsterland. The scenic design will illustrate the change between the many locales of the `reel world’ and `real world’. The lighting design will aid the production in creating hard angled shadows of light for the film noir `reel world’ and vibrant `full’ colors for the everyday `real world’.
Kristine Kearney (Advisor)
Janet Parrott (Committee Member)
A. Scott Parry (Committee Member)
154 p.
Theater
City of Angels, costume design, costumes, real world, reel world, film noir, contemporary, modern, Hollywood, playwrights, musical

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  • Cagle, N. K. (2015). Costume Design and Production for City of Angels Book by Larry Gelbart, Music by Cy Coleman, and Lyrics by David Zippel [Master's thesis, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1437645350

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Cagle, Natalie. Costume Design and Production for City of Angels Book by Larry Gelbart, Music by Cy Coleman, and Lyrics by David Zippel . 2015. Ohio State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1437645350.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Cagle, Natalie. "Costume Design and Production for City of Angels Book by Larry Gelbart, Music by Cy Coleman, and Lyrics by David Zippel ." Master's thesis, Ohio State University, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1437645350

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