Help me understand the new "Sunset" revival!
Help me understand the new "Sunset" revival!
#1Help me understand the new "Sunset" revival!
Posted: 9/4/25 at 5:54pm
I was fortunate enough to have seen the original production of "Sunset Boulevard" during it's original run. The film is my all-time number one favorite film, but I felt that the musical didn't have the darkness or twistedness of the original film and just kind of felt let-down my the entire experdince. In the last revival, does Norma become a vampire and why does she come out for the curtain call covered in blood? It seems to be very unlike what the original story and deviated from what had actually happened!...
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#2Help me understand the new "Sunset" revival!
Posted: 9/4/25 at 5:56pm
She basically stabbed him a few times and possibly decapitated him, and then made out with his face getting herself covered in blood - in keeping with Salome’s “the bring in his head on a silver tray/she kisses his mouth, it’s a great screenplay!”
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#3Help me understand the new "Sunset" revival!
Posted: 9/4/25 at 6:02pm
ChgoTheatreGuy said: "In the last revival, does Norma become a vampire and why does she come out for the curtain call covered in blood? It seems to be very unlike what the original story and deviated from what had actually happened!..."
I mean... basically yeah tbh... I dont know if that's their intention but it's what I got. Kookiness into a Vampire.
#4Help me understand the new "Sunset" revival!
Posted: 9/4/25 at 6:14pm
I think the Jamie Lloyd sunset was the kind of thrilling blood soaked horrifying ending that Carrie wanted to be but was never able to achieve.
"You can't overrate Bernadette Peters. She is such a genius. There's a moment in "Too Many Mornings" and Bernadette doing 'I wore green the last time' - It's a voice that is just already given up - it is so sorrowful. Tragic. You can see from that moment the show is going to be headed into such dark territory and it hinges on this tiny throwaway moment of the voice." - Ben Brantley (2022)
"Bernadette's whole, stunning performance [as Rose in Gypsy] galvanized the actors capable of letting loose with her. Bernadette's Rose did take its rightful place, but too late, and unseen by too many who should have seen it" Arthur Laurents (2009)
"Sondheim's own favorite star performances? [Bernadette] Peters in ''Sunday in the Park,'' Lansbury in ''Sweeney Todd'' and ''obviously, Ethel was thrilling in 'Gypsy.'' Nytimes, 2000
#5Help me understand the new "Sunset" revival!
Posted: 9/4/25 at 6:16pm
It seemed like an answer to the criticism that the seeeney Todd revival had no blood
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