The City Club
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Opened Apr 23, 2012
Open Run
Opened Apr 23, 2012
Open Run
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The City Club is a twisting noir morality tale of intrigue, murder, corruption, and sex, supported by a seductive blues and jazz score. It is the story of Charles "Chaz" Davenport, a young privileged scion of a spectacularly corrupt family whose vice grip on their city is as tight as it is inescapable.
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There's nothing so wrong with The City Club, now at Minetta Lane Theatre under Mitchell Maxwell's direction, that couldn't be cured with a whole new book.
Author Glenn M. Stewart is clearly a major fan of film noir; however, he proves that parroting isn't exactly the highest form of praise with his would-be-lurid script, which uneasily mixes elements of Chinatown and Memphis.
The story, such as it is, focuses on Chaz Davenport (Andrew Pandaleone, who gets to work his rich, robust voice to good effect), a so-called golden boy who opens this squeaky-clean "square joint" to compensate for his forebears' corruption. Chaz quickly finds, though, that keeping the bad elements out of his place i[...]