AMTSJ City of Angels

From American Musical Theatre of San Jose's 1998 production of City of Angels. Darrin Baker, Neal Benari, Jeanne Jones, Kenny Morris, Valerie Perri, Lisa Robinson, Herschel Sparber, Gary Littman, Robert Almodovar, Annmarie Martin, Paul Dolan, Andrew Ragone, Stephane K. Alwyn, Patrick Flick, Brian Jebian, Mike Cymanski, Don Masuda, Daniel Olson, Joann Koobatian, Diane Milo, Mark Purcell, Andrew Maldarelli, Rachelle Crowley, Tami Dahbura, Diana Torres-Koss, Robert H. Robinson, Jill Johnson Gold.

[@kyleethekelt]

This was most enjoyable. I came across 'You're Nothing without Me' from this musical whilst doing some research and it's great to think I've had the chance to enjoy the entire work. Thank you for sharing.

[@andreabanuelosavila2317]

I came across that song with a Persona 5 parody.

[@driftingthruspace]

God I wanna see this live so bad

[@briansennello3136]

It’s on Pinole Players’ website for March 2025

[@SpencerMusicSchool]

What a great production. I adore City of Angels and performed the role of Jimmy Powers several times through Southern CA. I never get tired of Cy's tight jazz harmonies. Bravo AMTSJ

[@gavink.glandt727]

I was just cast as Jimmy Powers in a local production of City of Angels! In the 8 years I've done theatre, this is my first bigger role, do you have any tips?

[@SpencerMusicSchool]

@@gavink.glandt727 Congrats . Yes listening to crooners from the 40s, work on having a relaxed head mix, relaxed appoggio breathing and listen for good blend. .. Esp. with "Stay With Me" .. With proper mic technique and blend you'll get that Mel-tones, Pied Pipers 40s style. A little text painting is nice too. Also important to understand seasonal skin tone. Wearing the right colors for your skin tone can really make you pop on stage We had fun going to a vintage clothing store in Orange, CA and picking out wardrobe for the scene. I wore 1940s shark tooth pants and burgundy cardigan and pokey pie hat. .. Had sort of Bing Crosby feel. For the other formal scenes I wore a black tux and slick backed hair and wore a Gable mustache. The ladies in the back up had gorgeous black velvet gowns, opera gloves and diamonds. Had a very Eva Gardner femme fatale. feel. There are indeed some crazy ass harmonies . so it is about perfect uniformity. Good luck. I'm sure you will kill it I'm on facebook send me a friend request if you want... you can find me at from my website ... I'm an artist developer I coach actors/models, and musical theatre vocalists for careers in the industry and do web portfolios, produce albums etc. jamesrspencer.com.

[@bbbw6114]

Timestamps: NOTE: Some of them include 2 times, with dialogue/ without 0:00 "Prologue/ Overture" 6:39 "Double Talk" Pt 1 14:25 "Double Talk" Pt 2 19:48 "What You Don't Know About Women" 24:30 "You Gotta Look Out For Yourself" 28:38 / 28:54 "The Buddy System" 34:08 "With Every Breath I Take" 48:20 "The Tennis Song/ Shall We Say the Ball..." 51:24 / 51:45 "Everybody's Gotta be Somewhere" 56:16 "Lost and Found" 1:13:20 "All You Have to do is Wait" 1:18:44 "You're Nothing Without Me" 1:22:53 "Entr'acte / Act 2 Post Inter." 1:24:30 "Stay With Me" (Radio Ver.) 1:29:57 "You Can Always Count On Me" Pt 1 1:32:50 "You Can Always Count On Me" Pt 2 1:38:00 "The Party / Double Talk" (Party Ver.) 1:47:34 "Alaura's Theme" 1:54:17 "It Needs Work" 2:01:41 "With Every Breath I Take Reprise" 2:13:05 "Funny" 2:25:02 "I'm Nothing Without You" 2:26:51 "Bows / Closing" Wrote this list 3 separate times because youtube was being youtube. Yadda Yadda, I lived in San Jose... saw COA live way back in the day, cool to see this version has stood the test of time; it's a great musical!.

[@jokytch7454]

thank you for this aaaah

[@jokytch7454]

thank you for this aaaah

[@agripinams9592]

Thank you so much!!!!

[@estelleevert6734]

In 1990, New YORK, Virginia Theatre, row 4 seat D, I happily enjoyed the original cast performance. James Naughton, the main lead, was a wonder of sexy talent. Overall, the entire cast was fabulous. The writing suburb. This version is fine, although not the original actors. It's a version of tBig Sleep with Bogart and Bacall. Thanks for posting.

[@susanfanning9927]

I saw the original on Broadway and loved it. So happy I found this!

[@driftingthruspace]

Lucky 😭 I wonder if there are any full recordings of the original cast

[@cliveoflegend]

Ooh, what a blast to see a full version of this show.

[@robertd.carver6240]

The Jazz score is ideal for the noir ambience and characters. Gelbart's book both kids the genre and is an affectionate homage

[@AllenPMinton]

I remember seeing City of Angels on its national tour in Washington DC back in the 90's, and it was a revelation. Such great music, lyrics, book and brilliant stagecraft. Subsequently, I played in the pit band for a production by Rockville Musical Theater in Rockville, Maryland. An amazing score. I have the original cast recording and enjoy listening to it periodically, but this video really brings the production to life. Thank you very, very much for posting this performance!

[@whitneyryangarrity5265]

What a wonderful production of this musical. I saw it on Broadway with the original cast. This was so faithful and expertly done!

[@sophiamcl]

The staging of this musical is crazy clever. LOVE IT!

[@tommoncrieff1154]

I saw the West End version of this show in 1993. Loved it. It won loads of awards but closed early.

[@russofeel]

And the (wonderful) revival didn't even make it to Opening Night because of Coronavirus.

[@davidreidenberg9941]

Saw this fabulous show 3 times on broadway.

[@SusanSloate]

I saw it in LA when it played there and never forgot how clever it was. Brilliant stuff! Really glad I found this on KZbin... what a treasure!!

[@redsaxmax]

I saw this in the 1990's in London and enjoyed it but couldn't remember that much about it! I have the music but it's missing enough plot to be really confusing. So, it was great to see it in its entirety - understand a bit more about it. There's some great performances in this production of it.

[@sofanofafalafel2890]

Heard one of the songs on the radio and fell in love

[@KT-sq2ml]

One of my all time FAVES! The music is amazing in this show. Great production!!

[@snakebake24]

1:18:50 for what Persona 5 fans are here for

[@therookieva]

Thanks but I'm honestly here for the whole show. It's really good.

[@geordstar1532]

I thank you good sir

[@mmmmmrocks]

OMG THANK YOU! AKESHU SUPREMACY!

[@jkfbekfh2535]

Absolutely

[@booiooing]

normalize watching an entire musical for one song tbh (i am a mentally deranged persona 5 fan and i make everyone i meet despise p5 because i wont stop talking about it)

[@zonaldzuck1859]

The audience was so dry!

[@lordcloud3087]

This is so incredibly witty. Wow.

[@tedwatson9929]

the girl who played Eliza in the AMTSJ production of My Fair Lady had a glorious voice. too bad the comments had to be turned off.

[@ryanoliveira8851]

Thanks for having this just had to leave at intermission (for reasons that have nothing to do with the show) at a production of this show a few days ago so I’m excited to see the second act

[@BarryDeutsch]

This is the best video of this show I've seen! Is there any way of getting a higher resolution copy?

[@davidreidenberg9941]

Barry Deutsch there are some snippets from the original Broadway production on you tube.

[@robertd.carver6240]

Larry Gelbart's (MASH) book is one of the cleverest ever.

[@YBmunashe]

can someone name the songs for me please

[@yourresidentanon4169]

THAT ENDING LMAOOOO

[@solaris69420]

I love this show so much but man that ending is laughably bad and resolves literally nothing It’s wonderful and I’ll watch it again

[@ClementDay]

1:18:41 You’re Nothing Without Me

[@lynn34004]

Personal timestamp- 37:21

[@lynn34004]

1:26:10

[@mapleman8499]

2:40

[@KyleManzo]

22:00

[@harrysmith4527]

17:11