Cher in sunset boulevard film

#1

Cher in sunset boulevard film

Posted: 11/1/07 at 11:32pm

A friend of mine on this site told me that webber was considering letting Cher play norma desmond on broadway. What do you guys think of Cher playing norma desmond in the sunset boulevard film ?

#2

re: Cher in sunset boulevard film

Posted: 11/1/07 at 11:37pm

Personally, I don't see it. AT. ALL.

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#3

re: Cher in sunset boulevard film

Posted: 11/2/07 at 12:51am

She has the face. And the right mind frame.

#4

re: Cher in sunset boulevard film

Posted: 11/2/07 at 12:57am

I can actually see it.

Why nor Margo?

#5

re: Cher in sunset boulevard film

Posted: 11/2/07 at 1:27am

I thought Babs was doing the film.

#6

re: Cher in sunset boulevard film

Posted: 11/2/07 at 1:30am

I can't really see Cher doing the role now, especially with her scary plastic surgery, but it is worth noting again, that she was asked to open SUNSET in Toronto. Apparently, she really wanted to do it too, but was suffering from chronic fatigue syndrome at the time which made any kind of 8 show a week commitment totally unthinkable.

#7

re: Cher in sunset boulevard film

Posted: 11/2/07 at 1:53am

Right, I think its the fact that its hard to get any emotion from her face nowadays.

#8

re: Cher in sunset boulevard film

Posted: 11/2/07 at 1:59am

Wouldn't they have to lower the songs about 5 octaves?

#9

re: Cher in sunset boulevard film

Posted: 11/2/07 at 2:01am

"as if we nevah said goodbiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii"

#10

re: Cher in sunset boulevard film

Posted: 11/2/07 at 2:04am

well if you think about Norma Desmond might of had plastic surgury

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#11

re: Cher in sunset boulevard film

Posted: 11/2/07 at 3:09am

not in 1950 - back then, women attached safety clips to their excess skin and literally pulled it tight under a wig. Thats how Marlena Dietrich did it...

#12

re: Cher in sunset boulevard film

Posted: 11/2/07 at 3:19am

I think it would be interesting to see. It could be a train-wreck in a good way, or a train-wreck in a brilliant way. We'll never know.

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#13

re: Cher in sunset boulevard film

Posted: 11/2/07 at 5:46am

I’ve always thought she would be amazing as Norma. I think she’s a better actress than a singer and a better singer than Glenn Close. It’s really too bad she wasn’t able to do the show in Toronto.

#14

re: Cher in sunset boulevard film

Posted: 11/2/07 at 6:37am

Being a big Cher fan, I'd love just to hear her sing the big numbers.

#15

re: Cher in sunset boulevard film

Posted: 11/2/07 at 6:51am

YOU THINK SHES A BETTER ACTRESS THEN GLEN CLOSE??????????

You might have assumed from the caps...but I disagree!

#16

re: Cher in sunset boulevard film

Posted: 11/2/07 at 6:53am

i'd just like to hear her record the songs...with no effects on her voice.

#17

re: Cher in sunset boulevard film

Posted: 11/2/07 at 8:31am

Oh my god is Cher still alive lol

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#18

re: Cher in sunset boulevard film

Posted: 11/2/07 at 9:00am

What most people ignore/forget is that Cher the singer is one thing, and Cher the actor is another. She's EXTREMELY versatle, and I have no doubt she could pull it off...I'd be running and pushing to get into the movie theater.

#19

re: Cher in sunset boulevard film

Posted: 11/2/07 at 9:26am

I think Cher would make an excellent Max.

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#20

re: Cher in sunset boulevard film

Posted: 11/2/07 at 9:48am

I'm having really horrific flashbacks to Seth's Bway 101 where he played a video of Cher singing "I Feel Pretty" and then had Laura Benanti sing for contrast. Hysterical but...

Cher just shouldn't sing anything written for anything above a tenor. Ever.

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#21

re: Cher in sunset boulevard film

Posted: 11/2/07 at 10:10am

Cher can't hit the notes, pure and simple.

And she is not that big a star that she can demand musical rewrites. Not when there are equal and bigger names out there who can sing as well as act.

Quick, name Cher's last hit movie.

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#22

re: Cher in sunset boulevard film

Posted: 11/2/07 at 12:05pm

Tea With Musollini (Sp?)

I think she could easily play it. I still would have chosen either Meryl Streep or Barbra Streisand over Cher, but whatev.

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#23

re: Cher in sunset boulevard film

Posted: 11/2/07 at 12:08pm

Cher can act and sing Glen Close under the table.

#24

re: Cher in sunset boulevard film

Posted: 11/2/07 at 12:44pm

She would be an interesting choice. She could do it. The songs will have to be sung in a lower key but so what. I think after Barbra Streisand Cher would be the oone actress that could sell lots of CD'S.

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#25

re: Cher in sunset boulevard film

Posted: 11/2/07 at 2:53pm

A good friend of mine who interned at the casting agency that is supposedly (?) preparing to cast this film claims that she just got the notice that they were preparing to cast, and that Streisand and Close were the top contenders.