Nicole Scherzinger to star in West End Sunset Boulevard at the Savoy- Page 5
Nicole Scherzinger to star in West End Sunset Boulevard at the Savoy
BorisTomashevsky
Broadway Star Joined: 4/30/22
#100Nicole Scherzinger to star in West End Sunset Boulevard at the Savoy
Posted: 8/14/23 at 9:39pm
Looks like a drama school graduating class production of Sunset.
Dolly80
Broadway Star Joined: 5/15/11
#101Nicole Scherzinger to star in West End Sunset Boulevard at the Savoy
Posted: 8/15/23 at 2:26amIt’s a 17 piece orchestra, and no set!!
blaxx
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/28/05
#102Nicole Scherzinger to star in West End Sunset Boulevard at the Savoy
Posted: 8/15/23 at 5:12am
OhHiii said: "The last big star-driven production from this director amounted to a few folding chairs and a single revolve that made Sam Gold's productions look like something from Alex Timbers.
And now ya'll are surprised the artwork/video is minimalistic...?"
Most people here are groupies for performers or specific productions.
Very few understand that directors have careers that are cohesive to their art. Most have no clue what has been done before or the process of their craft.
You know that when creatives are referred to as "they"
"They could have done this..."
"I hated what they did with..."
Of course you will hate all about this Sunset Boulevard if you have no clue who "they" are.
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#103Nicole Scherzinger to star in West End Sunset Boulevard at the Savoy
Posted: 8/15/23 at 6:50am
Maybe they can have ghost Joe walk out into the London streets at the end.
#104Nicole Scherzinger to star in West End Sunset Boulevard at the Savoy
Posted: 8/15/23 at 9:17am
That trailer. Oh dear.
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ErmengardeStopSniveling
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/20/18
#105Nicole Scherzinger to star in West End Sunset Boulevard at the Savoy
Posted: 8/15/23 at 9:41am
WldKingdomHM said: "Maybe they can have ghost Joe walk out into the London streets at the end."
Kiddie pool in the lobby with Joe’s corpse lying in it for a photo op.
#106Nicole Scherzinger to star in West End Sunset Boulevard at the Savoy
Posted: 8/15/23 at 10:39am
I'm know I'll be in the minority, but I'm infinitely more excited about this production than the last 'revival' with Glenn Close. I found that production to be sad, watered down and Glen was too old and not up to the task vocally. If I can't have the opulent glamour of the original, then give me a radical, edgy production that takes huge risks.
Tag
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/19/05
#107Nicole Scherzinger to star in West End Sunset Boulevard at the Savoy
Posted: 8/15/23 at 11:16am
Everyone just needs to prepare themselves and go into this with zero expectation of matching anything resembling the original production. You're not getting grand. Just take it for what it will be. A minimalistic (probably miscast) new experience.
verywellthensigh
Leading Actor Joined: 6/14/22
#108Nicole Scherzinger to star in West End Sunset Boulevard at the Savoy
Posted: 8/15/23 at 1:56pm
I don't think the trailer is that big of a horror, just terribly pedestrian and unimaginative. I personally never found the show to be terribly impressive to begin with aside from a couple of great songs. It should be interesting to see it without all the 80's-90s swan float mega-musical $$ propping it up.
Listener
Stand-by Joined: 9/25/22
#109Nicole Scherzinger to star in West End Sunset Boulevard at the Savoy
Posted: 8/16/23 at 12:02am
...or painfully revealing.
I honestly think there needs to be opulence to Norma's world, even if a minimalist approach is taken. Joe has to be sticking around for something.
And what about the luxury car in Act 2?
JasonC3
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/22/21
#110Nicole Scherzinger to star in West End Sunset Boulevard at the Savoy
Posted: 8/16/23 at 12:36am
Uber Lux?
#111Nicole Scherzinger to star in West End Sunset Boulevard at the Savoy
Posted: 8/16/23 at 6:20am
Listener said: "...or painfully revealing.
I honestly think there needs to be opulence to Norma's world, even if a minimalist approach is taken. Joe has to be sticking around for something.
And what about the luxury car in Act 2?"
Chairs !!!
#112Nicole Scherzinger to star in West End Sunset Boulevard at the Savoy
Posted: 8/16/23 at 3:24pm
To signal opulence Jamie perhaps instead of just wooden chairs, maybe wooden chairs with a leather pad on top?
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pmensky
Broadway Star Joined: 7/18/11
#113Nicole Scherzinger to star in West End Sunset Boulevard at the Savoy
Posted: 8/16/23 at 4:25pm
No, no. The ensemble is going to join together to form the car. Like Voltron.
Musicaldudepeter
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/18/10
#114Nicole Scherzinger to star in West End Sunset Boulevard at the Savoy
Posted: 8/16/23 at 4:44pm
The rumor is that the production's design is a grey curtain, a flashlight and a ladder in the back
RippedMan
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/14/05
#115Nicole Scherzinger to star in West End Sunset Boulevard at the Savoy
Posted: 8/16/23 at 5:43pm
Lame. I think an understated Sunset could be interesting, but I just feel like we've seen his bag of tricks already.
Pernigraniline
Chorus Member Joined: 11/12/11
#116Nicole Scherzinger to star in West End Sunset Boulevard at the Savoy
Posted: 8/17/23 at 10:47am
Owen22 said: "Have you noticed every actor in the cast is (or looks) ten years younger than the character requires.. ?"
Character requires? Norma is only around 50, Joe is mid-late 20s? Mayerling could be an "enfant terrible" director and be only 45-50. Its the previous ALW versions that have cast upwards.
#118Nicole Scherzinger to star in West End Sunset Boulevard at the Savoy
Posted: 9/1/23 at 11:26am
I can’t believe this is starting in less than 2 weeks. I’m excited for it mainly because I have absolutely no clue what the hell it’s gonna be.
Bette's Turban
Broadway Star Joined: 7/9/17
#119Nicole Scherzinger to star in West End Sunset Boulevard at the Savoy
Posted: 9/1/23 at 11:43am
Going to this one . Open to it being anything. It’s a bad show. How much can they f it up?
theatregoer3
Broadway Star Joined: 3/8/13
#120Nicole Scherzinger to star in West End Sunset Boulevard at the Savoy
Posted: 9/1/23 at 12:58pm
I saw the original production and then the concert version with Glenn. I thought the original production was spectacular. Truly incredible. The concert was a big letdown but the biggest issue I had with it was that the score was constructed around the original set. These big musical swells and long pauses in the signing are meant to accommodate grand set changes and big scenic reveals. When you have a minimalist version using the original score it's full of dead space and the movement of the story comes to a halt.
RippedMan
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/14/05
#121Nicole Scherzinger to star in West End Sunset Boulevard at the Savoy
Posted: 9/1/23 at 1:13pm
This is by far one of my favorite ALW scores. And she will deliver vocally.
#122Nicole Scherzinger to star in West End Sunset Boulevard at the Savoy
Posted: 9/1/23 at 1:18pm
Jordan Catalano said: "I can’t believe this is starting in less than 2 weeks. I’m excited for it mainly because I have absolutely no clue what the hell it’s gonna be."
Can’t wait to hear your in-depth thoughts!
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#123Nicole Scherzinger to star in West End Sunset Boulevard at the Savoy
Posted: 9/1/23 at 1:35pm
theatregoer3 said: "I saw the original production and then the concert version with Glenn. I thought the original production was spectacular. Truly incredible. The concert was a big letdown but the biggest issue I had with it was that the score was constructed around the original set. These big musical swells and long pauses in the signing are meant to accommodate grand set changes and big scenic reveals. When you have a minimalist version using the original score it's full of dead space and the movement of the story comes to a halt."
I agree as for seeing the original production was a breathtaking experience especially for the raising of the stage-magic! That set!!! Glenn was amazing but seeing it w/ Betty Buckley was the Norma to see for the electrifying vocals!
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DJD4
Understudy Joined: 9/17/22
#124Nicole Scherzinger to star in West End Sunset Boulevard at the Savoy
Posted: 9/1/23 at 2:33pm
theatregoer3 said: "I saw the original production and then the concert version with Glenn. I thought the original production was spectacular. Truly incredible. The concert was a big letdown but the biggest issue I had with it was that the score was constructed around the original set. These big musical swells and long pauses in the signing are meant to accommodate grand set changes and big scenic reveals. When you have a minimalist version using the original score it's full of dead space and the movement of the story comes to a halt."
This makes perfect sense! This scaled back concert version is the only version I have gotten to see, and I just kept thinking "there's so much underscore". Now that makes perfect sense that it was meant to pad the opulent scenic changes. Beautiful score, just a lot of it.
