Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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 Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles.
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.
Sunset Boulevard opened at the Adelphi Theatre in London on 12 July 1993, and ran for 1,529 performances. [57] In 1994, Sunset Boulevard became a successful Broadway show, opening with the largest advance in Broadway history, and winning seven Tony Awards that year. Even so, by its closing in 1997, "it had not recouped its reported $13 million ...
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.
"There's nothing tragic about being 50," Joe Gillis tells Norma Desmond in the original 1950 Sunset Boulevard, "unless you're trying to be 25.". By this point Joe's already shattered the illusion ...
Related: Dirty Dancing Broadway adaptation heading to the stage with original film's writer, movie actor returning to direct The British director's production is remarkably fresh for a 1990s ...
Kennedy attended the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music [4] where she pursued a B.F.A. in Musical Theatre. She left school at the age of 19, when she was cast in the 1993 Los Angeles production of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Sunset Boulevard, [2] [5] After a nine-month run, she moved to New York for the musical's 1994 Broadway ...
The cast of 'Sunset Blvd.' on Broadway Those who have seen previous versions of Sunset Boulevard may think they've seen it before, but Lloyd's bold vision makes this story feel completely fresh.