Sunset Boulevard

Music by Andrew Lloyd Webber

Book & Lyrics by Don Black and Christopher Hampton

Based on the film by Billy Wilder

Cast

Norma Desmond	LAURA de PUTRON
Joe Gillis	SIMON TORODE
Max Von Mayerling	MARTYN MITCHELL
Betty Schaefer	ASHLEIGH GARDENER-WHEELER
Artie Green	JON OZANNE

 

Synopsis

Visualise the scene: A House on Sunset.

Joe Gillis is startled by a sharp, decisive woman’s voice, cutting harshly as she advances on him, flushed with indignation.

JOE: Aren’t you Norma Desmond? You used to be in pictures. You used to be big.

NORMA: I am big. It’s the pictures that got small.

Based on the 1950 film of the same title, Sunset Boulevard is a musical with book and lyrics by Don Black and Christopher Hampton and music by Andrew Lloyd Webber.

Sunset Boulevard 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 tinsel town with the advent of “talkies.”

Her glamour has faded in all but her mind. When she meets struggling Hollywood screen-writer Joe Gillis in dramatic circumstances, their subsequent passionate and volatile relationship leads to an unforeseen and tragic conclusion.