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.