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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]
Watch the music video for “Sunset Boulevard” below. Lloyd’s revival, which debuted in London last year prior to transferring to Broadway last month, takes imaginative swings with the material.
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.
Tom Francis attends the 'Sunset BLVD' Broadway Opening Night at St James Theater on October 20, 2024 in New York City.
When “Sunset Boulevard” premiered on Broadway in 1994, the onstage drama was overshadowed by offstage melodrama — namely, a breach-of-contract lawsuit that Patti LuPone filed against the ...
"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.
As she sings the final verse of “As If We Never Said Goodbye,” one of two showstopping numbers that bolster the musical “Sunset Boulevard,” Nicole Scherzinger turns her face skyward. Her ...