Sunset Boulevard
Sunset Boulevard insightfully taps into our celebrity-crazed culture full of Hollywood stars who cling onto their faded youth and tarnished fame.
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Sunset Boulevard insightfully taps into our celebrity-crazed culture full of Hollywood stars who cling onto their faded youth and tarnished fame.
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Sunset Boulevard insightfully taps into our celebrity-crazed culture full of Hollywood stars who cling onto their faded youth and tarnished fame.
Sunset Boulevard insightfully taps into our celebrity-crazed culture full of Hollywood stars who cling onto their faded youth and tarnished fame.
The show received its original US premiere in December 1993 at the Shubert Theatre in Los Angeles, which starred Glenn Close (Norma Desmond), Alan Campbell (Joe Gillis), Judy Kuhn (Betty Schaefer) and George Hearn (Max von Mayerling), with Close, Campbell and Hearn going on to recreate their roles for the show?s 1994 Broadway opening at the Minskoff Theatre in November 1994.They were also joined by Alice Ripley as Betty Schaefer. That production opened with the highest advance in Broadway history at the time ($37.5 million in ticket sales).
Roger Ebert hailed SUNSET BOULEVARD as "the best drama ever made about the movies." The Tony Award-winning stage production, a visually spectacular tale featuring breathtaking music by the legendary Andrew Lloyd Webber, weaves a magnificent tale of faded glory and unfulfilled ambition.
Silent movie star Norma Desmond longs for a return to the big screen, having been discarded by Tinseltown with the advent of "talkies." Her glamour has faded in all but her mind. When she meets the struggling Hollywood screenwriter Joe Gillis through dramatic circumstances, their subsequent passionate and volatile relationship leads to an unforeseen and tragic conclusion.
Joe Gillis - Will Ray
Norma Desmond - Christine Sherrill
Artie Green - Adrian Aguilar
Betty Schaefer - Dara Cameron
Max von Mayerling - Don Richard
Cecil B. DeMille - Jonathan Weir
Marino - Larry Adams
Myron - Devin DeSantis
Sheldrake - Rod Thomas
Manfred - Andrew Lupp
Hog Eye - David Kortemeier
Joanna - Rachel Klippel
Astrologer - Cory Goodrichv Doctor - Paula Scrofano
Psychologist - Sarah Page
Book By: Don Black & Christopher Hampton
Music By: Andrew Lloyd Webber
Lyrics By: Don Black & Christopher Hampton
Based on the Billy Wilder Film
Directed By: William Osetek
WINNER OF 7 TONY AWARDS
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