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Sunset Boulevard is a musical with music by Andrew Lloyd Webber, and lyrics and libretto by Don Black and Christopher Hampton.It is based on the 1950 film.. The plot revolves around Norma Desmond, a faded star of the silent screen era, living in the past in her decaying mansion on the fabled Los Angeles street.
The soundtrack to the film Sunset Boulevard (1950) was composed by Franz Waxman. In 2005, Franz Waxman's score was named #16 of the top 25 film scores in the American Film Institute's "100 Years of Film Scores" list. [1] It was released on CD in 2002, an edition that was re-recorded by Joel McNeely and the Scottish Symphony Orchestra. [2]
Ben Rimalower on Playbill calls it Andrew Lloyd Webber's greatest song. [1] In Sunset Boulevard, the main character, Norma Desmond, reveals her longing to return to the spotlight of fame. [2] The song has been performed by Barbra Streisand. It is featured on her album Back to Broadway and the live albums The Concert and Back to Brooklyn.
"The Perfect Year" is a song performed by English singer-songwriter Dina Carroll, with music by Andrew Lloyd Webber and lyrics by Don Black and Christopher Hampton.It is taken from the 1993 musical Sunset Boulevard, produced by Nigel Lowis, and was released as a single on 29 November 1993 by A&M and 1st Avenue.
Films that discuss Sunset Boulevard in their screenplays or pay homage in scenes or dialogue include Soapdish (1991), The Player (1992), Gods and Monsters (1998), Mulholland Drive (2001), [7] Inland Empire (2006) and Be Cool (2005). The ending of Cecil B. Demented (2000) is a parody of Sunset Boulevard's final scene.
They received three Academy Awards for Best Song - for "Buttons and Bows" in The Paleface (1948), "Mona Lisa" in Captain Carey, U.S.A. (1950) and "Que Sera Sera" in The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956) - and a total of seven nominations. [1] [3] The duo appeared as themselves in the 1950 film Sunset Boulevard.
Andrew Lloyd Webber is an English composer.. He is an EGOT winner, having won a Primetime Emmy Award, three Grammy Awards, an Academy Award (Oscar), and six Tony Awards.. Webber is known for his various stage work Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (1968), Jesus Christ Superstar (1970), Evita (1976), Cats (1981), The Phantom of the Opera (1986), Sunset Boulevard (1993), and School of ...
The song appears in the background in the 1950 film Sunset Boulevard during Norma Desmond's house party. It also appears in the background in the 1978 film Just a Gigolo during a dance at the brothel run by the Baroness von Semering (Marlene Dietrich).