Interesting Time Line Of Norma Desmonds

Thanks for the post. I was amazed by your knowledge until I read it was from bway.com. I saw it with Betty on Broadway and loved it. It was the first bway show I saw as an NYC resident when I moved here in January of '96. I also remember that many people were thrilled with Karen Mason's performance.

I agree. I don't remember that "outburst", but I'm not surprised. It certainly fits the character.

This should really have an actual link and should't have the entire article cut and pasted.

It's only fair to the folks hosting the story that they get the proper traffic from it.

I agree John... Also for copyright purposes linking is safer. Amneris - I went in and made that tiny change.

Rob

Ken only included a portion of Close's letter. She was understandbly mad that ALW inflated the grosses during her vacation to make it look there was no difference at the box office whether or not she was appearing. If that was the case, then he could have brought Patti over and Frank Rich not liking her performance would not have mattered. Close did praise Karen Mason as a person and a performer in her letter. But to suggest that they are equal box office attraction is what got her angry. Close is a star and has a healthy ego. She seemed quite nice when I met her and I haven't heard terrible things about working with her either.

hands down Cybil Sheppard. She did such a fine job with Martha Stewart this could be good character work. p.s. i remember when i saw sunset, my brother was in high school at the time and i was still in the younger grades...his drama club had some extra tickets so my mom and i went along with him and his drama peeps and at that particular performance, these tourists from japan snapped a photo or 2 of her during a scene and she stopped the show and went "would you like a performance or a photo shoot? make your choice now" and there was dead silence then she said "ok we shall continue" and she got back in to the scene. She was right to do that of course but, it kind of scared me because until then i'd never seen a person break the 4th wall.

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"waves a $5.00 bill" YOO HOO this could go far you know... i know our friends here would support the show and see it.

*sigh* Sunset was my first Broadway show ever.

Thanks for posting that, Amneris.

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I saw the national tour with Petula Clark. Very good production.