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Sunset Boulevard

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Opening November 17, 1998 Closing: April 9, 2000 Length of Run: 18 months Run Type: Open-ended

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• Prologue .... Joe
• Let's Have Lunch .... Joe and Ensemble
• Surrender .... Norma
• With One Look .... Norma
• Salome .... Norma and Joe
• The Greatest Star of All .... Max
• Every Movie's a Circus .... Joe, betty, Artie and Ensemble
• New Ways to Dream .... Norma
• The Lady's Paying .... Manfred, Norma, Joe and Salesman
• The Perfect Year .... Norma and Joe
• This Time Next Year .... Joe, Betty, Artie and Ensemble
• Sunset Boulevard .... Joe
• The Perfect Year (Reprise) .... Norma
• As If We Never Said Goodbye .... Norma
• Surrender (Reprise) .... Cecil B. DeMille
• Girl Meets Boy (Reprise) .... Betty and Joe
• Eternal Youth is Worth a Little Suffering .... Norma's Consultants
• Too Much in Love to Care .... Betty and Joe
• New Ways to Dream (Reprise) .... Max
• Sunset Boulevard (Reprise) .... Joe and Betty
• The Greatest Star of All (Reprise) .... Max and Norma
• Surrender (Reprise) .... Norma

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Andrew Lloyd Webber’s “Sunset Boulevard” returns to Broadway in this new production starring Nicole Scherzinger. Haunted by her memories and dreams, movie star Norma Desmond yearns to return to the big screen. A struggling screenwriter who can’t sell his scripts to the Hollywood studios may be her only hope, until their dangerous and compelling relationship leads to disastrous circumstances. Drenched in champagne and cynicism, “Sunset Boulevard” scrutinizes the ambitions and frustrations of its characters and their intoxicating need for fame and adoration. 

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Music by Andrew Lloyd Webber; Book by Don Black, Christopher Hampton; Lyrics by Don Black, Christopher Hampton; Based on the film by Billy Wilder.

Directed by Jamie Lloyd; U.K. Associate Director: Rupert Hands; U.S. Associate Director: Benita De Wit; Choreographed by Fabian Aloise; U.K. Associate Choreographer: Paris Green; U.S. Associate Choreographer: Ashley Andrews.

Starring: Nicole Scherzinger.

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Nicole Scherzinger makes her Broadway debut in the revival of Andrew Lloyd Webber's thrilling musical.

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Haunted by her memories and dreams, movie star Norma Desmond yearns to return to the big screen. A struggling screenwriter who can’t sell his scripts to the Hollywood studios may be her only hope, until their dangerous and compelling relationship leads to disastrous circumstances. Drenched in champagne and cynicism, Sunset Boulevard scrutinizes the ambitions and frustrations of its characters and their intoxicating need for fame and adoration.

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Grammy®-Award nominated, Nicole Scherzinger is a multi-award- winning, platinum-selling singer, songwriter, actress, and dancer. The multi-hyphenate was formerly a member of one of the world’s best-selling music groups of all time, The Pussycat Dolls, firmly cementing herself as a global pop icon. Scherzinger has previously starred on the West End in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s  Cats , for which she was nominated for an Olivier Award for Best Supporting Actress. On screen, she recently led a critically acclaimed cast in the NBC musical television special, Annie Live! and performed at Windsor Castle – headlining the entertainment at King Charles III’s Coronation Concert in London. The Hawaiian native has graced screens worldwide for over a decade in movies such as Disney’s  Moana  and ABC’s remake of fan favorite  Dirty Dancing , and as a judge on shows such as X Factor, Australia’s Got Talent , and The Masked Singer .

Theater credits include:  & Juliet  (Shaftesbury),  What’s New Pussycat?  (Birmingham Rep),  Rent  (Hope Mill);  Hair–The Concert  (London Palladium),  I Could Use A Drink  (Gartland Productions). Workshop credits include:  If/Then  and  What’s New Pussycat?  Training: Arts Educational School.

Theatre credits include:  The Little Mermaid ,  Bare ,  Made in Dagenham  (Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts);  Sister Act  (Nottingham Playhouse). Training: Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts.

Theater credits include:  Les Misérables  (Sondheim/Queen’s);  Come From Away  (Phoenix);  The Phantom of the Opera  (Her Majesty’s);  Passion  (Donmar Warehouse; Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Musical);  Camelot  (London Palladium);  Love Never Dies  (Adelphi);  West End Men  (Vaudeville);  She Loves Me  (Sheffield Crucible);  Candide  (Menier Chocolate Factory);  Roller Diner  (Soho);  Only The Brave ,  The Rake’s Progress  (Wales Millennium Centre);  The Sorcerer’s Apprentice  (Southwark Playhouse);  The Cunning Little Vixen  (Sherman, Cardiff);  Trial by Jury  (BBC National Orchestra of Wales/St David’s Hall/Chandos). Concerts include:  Jesus Christ Superstar – The Concert  (Regent’s Park Open Air);  Broadway to the Bay  (Wales Millennium Centre); “Welsh Guards Centenary Celebration” (Cardiff Principality Stadium); Friday Night is Music Night (BBC Radio 2);  Bond  with the Royal Northern Sinfonia (Sage Gateshead);  Bring Them Home  (Cardiff Castle). Training: Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama. 

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NICOLE SCHERZINGER stars as the immortal Norma Desmond in ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER ’s legendary SUNSET BLVD. , reimagined by visionary director JAMIE LLOYD . The New York Times declares, “This bravura new revival belongs to the here and now. Nicole Scherzinger gives a career-defining performance.” And The Washington Post hails, “This killer production is theater at its devilish best. It slays you.” Haunted by her memories and dreams, movie star Norma Desmond yearns to return to the big screen. A struggling screenwriter who can’t sell his scripts to the Hollywood studios may be her only hope, until their dangerous and captivating relationship leads to disaster. Drenched in champagne and cynicism, SUNSET BLVD. focuses the lens on the ambitions and frustrations of its characters and puts their intoxicating need for fame and adoration in stark close-up.

Sunset Boulevard – UK Tour

Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Tony Award-winning masterpiece Sunset Boulevard will be directed by Artistic Director Nikolai Foster and stars acclaimed musical theatre actress Ria Jones as Norma Desmond and Danny Mac as Joe Gillis.

In her mansion on Sunset Boulevard, faded, silent-screen goddess Norma Desmond lives in a fantasy world. Impoverished screen writer Joe Gillis, on the run from debt collectors, stumbles into her reclusive world. Persuaded to work on Norma’s ‘masterpiece’, a film script that she believes will put her back in front of the cameras, he is seduced by her and her luxurious lifestyle. Joe becomes trapped in a claustrophobic world until his love for another woman leads him to try and break free, with dramatic consequences.

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The city of Los Angeles on Friday cleared a homeless encampment near Hollywood’s landmark Sunset Sound recording studio and moved more than 30 people into temporary housing, officials said.

The long-standing encampment next to the Sunset Boulevard recording studio had become a tinderbox in the neighborhood. The owner of Sunset Sound previously complained that the encampment, sidewalk fires and a break-in had threatened the business and made high-profile artists uncomfortable.

A stack of blank checks was stolen from the business during a February break-in , and employees found human feces on a drum set, Sunset Sound President Paul Camarata told media outlets earlier this year. He said he installed cacti in massive wooden planters on the sidewalk to try to deter the encampment from reappearing.

The encampment was cleared as a part of Inside Safe, the program launched by Mayor Karen Bass that has taken homeless people off the streets and moved them into city-leased hotels, motels and other facilities.

Two days before the operation, about a dozen tents and other structures were visible outside the studio at Sunset and Cherokee Avenue.

Bass’ office said that, between the Hollywood operation and another intervention in Windsor Square at 6th Street and Van Ness Avenue, more than 35 people were temporarily housed this week.

Photos shared by the mayor’s office showed Bass talking to unhoused people on the sidewalk outside Sunset Sound and on a city bus Friday.

Councilmember Hugo Soto-Martinez, whose district includes Hollywood, said that everyone living at the Sunset encampment accepted “services and housing.”

“Many people living at this encampment have been in the same area on the street for over five years, and now they are finally able to move into housing because of Inside Safe,” Soto-Martinez said in a statement .

The recording studio, which opened in 1960, has been used by high-profile artists including Elton John, Taylor Swift, the Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, the Doors, Janis Joplin, Van Halen and Prince.

Representatives for Sunset Sound didn’t respond to requests for comment.

Times staff writer David Zahniser contributed to this report.

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Review: SUNSET BOULEVARD at The Princess Theatre

Sunset Boulevard is playing at The Princess Theatre through to August.

Opera Australia and GWB Entertainment’s revival of Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Sunset Boulevard, showcases a fantastic five-star Australian cast, led by Tim Draxl. This production also features a decadent and lavish set and costume design by Morgan Large, sharp and electric choreography by Ashley Wallen, excellent musical direction from Paul Christ, and a stunning lighting design by Mark Henderson. However, this production is let down creatively through ‘below par’ direction by Paul Warwick Griffin and the miscasting of Sarah Brightman as Norma Desmond. As a result, the overall star rating of this production of Sunset Boulevard averages out at 3.5 Stars .

Sunset Boulevard is based on the classic 1950’s film noir picture of the same name, which starred Williams Holden as struggling writer, Joe Gillis, and Gloria Swanson as faded silent-film star, Norma Desmond. The film of Sunset Boulevard received critical acclaim when it opened in 1950, resulting in 11 Academy Awards, and it is often now referred to as a film classic. Sunset Boulevard’s story about passion and crime in Hollywood begins which the audience being introduced to Joe Gillis who is financially struggling. Through fate, Joe finds himself entering the lavish mansion of Norma Desmond, and like a fly caught in a spider’s web, Joe becomes entangled in Norma’s life and enchanted by her wealth. This results in disastrous consequences for both characters. The film Sunset Boulevard is perhaps best known to the public through Norma Desmonds’s famous line “ Mr. Demille, I’m ready for my close-up ”, a line which is often misquoted.

Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical adaptation of Sunset Boulevard first premièred on the West End in July 1993 with direction by Trevor Nunn, choreography by Bob Avian and with Patti LuPone starring as Norma Desmond. It received mixed reviews. The musical then transferred the same year to Los Angeles, opening in December 1993 with Glenn Close as Norma Desmond. Close also opened the Broadway production of Sunset Boulevard in November 1994. However, as reported by the Los Angeles Times on 24th June 1994, LuPone had originally been contracted to open the Broadway production of Sunset Boulevard , which resulted in LuPone suing Lloyd Webber, and a legal settlement resulting. The Los Angeles Times article also highlights that when Close was leaving the Los Angeles production for Broadway, she was meant to be replaced by Faye Dunaway. However, once rehearsals started, the producers became so concerned regarding Dunaway’s singing, they opted to close the Los Angeles production, instead of letting her perform! This was despite over US $4 million in advanced ticket sales. As reported by The New York Times on 17th January 1995, this resulted in Dunaway also suing and then settling with Lloyd Webber. The casting of the role of Norma Desmond, therefore, appears to have a disharmonious history.

The current Australian revival of Sunset Boulevard seems inadvertently to have continued controversy around the casting of the role of Norma Desmond. In this current production, world renowned soprano, Sarah Brightman, headlines the Musical as the faded silent film star, Norma Desmond. Brightman is likely known to most musical theatre fans as the original Christine Daaé in The Phantom of the Opera . While Brightman does have a three-octave vocal range, she is not known as a strong character performer or a strong ‘belter’, both of which really are crucial for the role of Norma Desmond.  As Brightman has also not appeared on stage theatrically in over 30 years, it does need to be questioned why the creative team and/or producers cast Brightman in a role she is not suited to. Particularly given that this production’s ‘alternate Norma Demond’ is one of Australia’s most gifted singers, Silvie Paladino.

Paul Warwick Griffin’s direction of this production of Sunset Boulevard did not do Sarah Brightman any favours. There were multiple times where onstage blocking appeared clunky, particularly at pivotal moments such as the end of act one and two. Brightman’s blocking also seemed to include bizarre moments when she would enter briefly in one costume, leave after a couple of minutes, and then re-enter in another costume. While this was due to a new scene, these rather ‘random’ exits and entrances did seem superfluous, given that they did nothing to advance the Show’s narrative.

Perhaps my biggest confusion with this iteration of Sunset Boulevard , is the apparent lack of justification for why Warwick Griffin’s adaptation is entrenched with theatrical conservatism? In isolation this comment may appear harsh. However, given a brave new modern and minimalist revival of Sunset Boulevard opened on the West End in late 2023 to rave reviews, I am unsure why another more conservative and traditional production is needed? The daring and contemporary West End production of Sunset Boulevard , which was directed by Jamie Lloyd, features a well needed ‘nip and tuck’ to the musical's book, won seven Olivier Awards this year and is set to open on Broadway in September. As a result, I feel disappointed that Australian audiences, including myself, are getting Warwick Griffin’s more traditional interpretation of Sunset Boulevard , which if I am honest, does feel like an attempt to ‘reinvent the wheel’.

Despite not loving Warwick Griffin’s more traditional revival of Sunset Boulevard, it cannot be disputed that the Australian cast in this current production, are exceptionally good. Tim Draxl seems born to play the role of Joe Gillis. Draxl’s singing is superb, with his rendition of the title song ‘Sunset Boulevard’ being remarkable. Ashleigh Rubenach as Betty Schaefer should also be congratulated for a strong performance, her vocals and acting were spot on. Robert Grubb as Max Von Mayerling and Jarrod Draper as Artie Green were well cast, both of whom gave dynamic performances with excellent vocals. The ensemble were all strong, with Dean Vince as Manfred being particularly compelling. Sunset Boulevard ’s score and orchestrations are sublime and worth coming along to hear, particularly given that this show’s orchestra execute them perfectly, under the musical direction of Paul Christ and musical supervision of Kristen Blodgette. Despite me craving a more cutting edge, contemporary approach to Sunset Boulevard , it cannot be disputed that given the ‘traditional musical theatre’ brief, Morgan Large’s set and costume design, Ashley Wallen’s choreography and Mark Henderson’s lighting design are all first-rate.

Sunset Boulevard is playing at The Princess Theatre through to August and then transferring to the Sydney Opera House where the Musical will be playing through to November.

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Savvino-storozhevsky monastery and museum.

Zvenigorod's most famous sight is the Savvino-Storozhevsky Monastery, which was founded in 1398 by the monk Savva from the Troitse-Sergieva Lavra, at the invitation and with the support of Prince Yury Dmitrievich of Zvenigorod. Savva was later canonised as St Sabbas (Savva) of Storozhev. The monastery late flourished under the reign of Tsar Alexis, who chose the monastery as his family church and often went on pilgrimage there and made lots of donations to it. Most of the monastery’s buildings date from this time. The monastery is heavily fortified with thick walls and six towers, the most impressive of which is the Krasny Tower which also serves as the eastern entrance. The monastery was closed in 1918 and only reopened in 1995. In 1998 Patriarch Alexius II took part in a service to return the relics of St Sabbas to the monastery. Today the monastery has the status of a stauropegic monastery, which is second in status to a lavra. In addition to being a working monastery, it also holds the Zvenigorod Historical, Architectural and Art Museum.

Belfry and Neighbouring Churches

Located near the main entrance is the monastery's belfry which is perhaps the calling card of the monastery due to its uniqueness. It was built in the 1650s and the St Sergius of Radonezh’s Church was opened on the middle tier in the mid-17th century, although it was originally dedicated to the Trinity. The belfry's 35-tonne Great Bladgovestny Bell fell in 1941 and was only restored and returned in 2003. Attached to the belfry is a large refectory and the Transfiguration Church, both of which were built on the orders of Tsar Alexis in the 1650s.  

To the left of the belfry is another, smaller, refectory which is attached to the Trinity Gate-Church, which was also constructed in the 1650s on the orders of Tsar Alexis who made it his own family church. The church is elaborately decorated with colourful trims and underneath the archway is a beautiful 19th century fresco.

Nativity of Virgin Mary Cathedral

The Nativity of Virgin Mary Cathedral is the oldest building in the monastery and among the oldest buildings in the Moscow Region. It was built between 1404 and 1405 during the lifetime of St Sabbas and using the funds of Prince Yury of Zvenigorod. The white-stone cathedral is a standard four-pillar design with a single golden dome. After the death of St Sabbas he was interred in the cathedral and a new altar dedicated to him was added.

Under the reign of Tsar Alexis the cathedral was decorated with frescoes by Stepan Ryazanets, some of which remain today. Tsar Alexis also presented the cathedral with a five-tier iconostasis, the top row of icons have been preserved.

Tsaritsa's Chambers

The Nativity of Virgin Mary Cathedral is located between the Tsaritsa's Chambers of the left and the Palace of Tsar Alexis on the right. The Tsaritsa's Chambers were built in the mid-17th century for the wife of Tsar Alexey - Tsaritsa Maria Ilinichna Miloskavskaya. The design of the building is influenced by the ancient Russian architectural style. Is prettier than the Tsar's chambers opposite, being red in colour with elaborately decorated window frames and entrance.

At present the Tsaritsa's Chambers houses the Zvenigorod Historical, Architectural and Art Museum. Among its displays is an accurate recreation of the interior of a noble lady's chambers including furniture, decorations and a decorated tiled oven, and an exhibition on the history of Zvenigorod and the monastery.

Palace of Tsar Alexis

The Palace of Tsar Alexis was built in the 1650s and is now one of the best surviving examples of non-religious architecture of that era. It was built especially for Tsar Alexis who often visited the monastery on religious pilgrimages. Its most striking feature is its pretty row of nine chimney spouts which resemble towers.

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