SF Playhouse's production of "City of Angels" isn't perfect, but it is perfectly wonderful. We audience members used our standing-in-line time at intermission to rave about it and wonder: How could this clever musical, performed so well, have gotten such a mediocre review? Had it changed so much since Lily Janiak saw it?
The musical has two stories presented simultaneously--a writer doing a screenplay of his book, a detective story, and the movie resulting from his writing and rewriting. Characters in the movie version sometimes rewind, playing scenes with suggested changes.
There's not much I'd change about this production of "City of Angels," but there's a lot I'd change about the review. I wish that Lily Janiak could rewind and see the production that the rest of us saw.
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