Amherst College Music DepartmentAMHERST – Beginning tonight, the Amherst College music department will present the Broadway hit City of Angels at 8 p.m. at the Buckley Recital Hall in the Arms Music Center on the Amherst College campus.
The “Film Noir” style musical comedy, which is considered to have artistic depth and a strong ethical message, will also run on Friday and Saturday of this week.
The “Film Noir” style of Angels refers to the cinematic term describing the low-key, black and white lighting of dramatic crime fiction films of Hollywood’s depression-era. Hollywood’s “Film Noir” era is said to have stretched from the 1940s to the 1950s, and commonly included filmic plots about private-eye detective stories. Similarly, half of Angels is set in the ’40s, and features a hardboiled detective named Stone, who is hot on the trail of an absent heiress. However, the private eye’s story makes up but half of the production’s entire plot.
The other side of the Angels story follows Stine, a frazzled novelist who is adapting Stone, his creation, into a Hollywood screenplay. Stine’s story is set in the present day, and features a more brightly-lit set d
