My cast for a possible NY Philharmonic production of "Sunset Boulevard"

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My cast for a possible NY Philharmonic production of "Sunset Boulevard"

Posted: 4/5/16 at 8:43pm

Cause I see the ENO production of this transfering to NY Philharmonic more than B'way...

Norma Desmond - Glenn Close

Joe Gillis - Andrew Samonsky

Max von Mayerling - Brian Stokes Mitchell

Betty Schaefer - Sierra Boggess

My cast for a possible NY Philharmonic production of

Posted: 4/5/16 at 9:04pm

I could see Laura Osnes as Betty but with Andy's obsession with Sierra, you're probably right.

My cast for a possible NY Philharmonic production of

Posted: 4/5/16 at 9:09pm

Ramin Karimloo as Joe.

"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe." -John Guare, Landscape of the Body

My cast for a possible NY Philharmonic production of

Posted: 4/5/16 at 10:08pm

I'd like to see LuPone appear as Norma in ACT ONE and Dunaway take over the role for ACT TWO. Now THAT'S show biz!

My cast for a possible NY Philharmonic production of

Posted: 4/5/16 at 10:23pm

Only if she comes in at the end of act one and rips the turban off LuPone's head and places it on her own like a crown.

My cast for a possible NY Philharmonic production of

Posted: 4/5/16 at 10:53pm

I don't know why I'm frightened.

My cast for a possible NY Philharmonic production of

Posted: 4/5/16 at 10:56pm

Ugh....I think I'm the only one who hates Glenn Close in this role.

My cast for a possible NY Philharmonic production of

Posted: 4/5/16 at 11:04pm

You are not! I HATE the American recording and think LuPone and Kevin Anderson are perfect on the London album.

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Posted: 4/5/16 at 11:50pm

Add me to the group of "not a Close fan in this role." Friends who saw her play it near the end of her run said she did everything but lick the banister on her way down the grand staircase. Even Gloria in the movie, though a peculiar delusional creature, kept it together somewhat until her final mad scene. Close took the mellow out of melodrama waaaay too early IMO.

#10

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Posted: 4/6/16 at 12:09am

And she can't sing.

#11

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Posted: 4/6/16 at 1:13am

Plus she writes poison pen letters when on vacation regarding her box office status.

Updated On: 4/6/16 at 01:13 AM

#12

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Posted: 4/6/16 at 12:47pm

back in the day I got the US Cd way before getting the London one, and singing asside, I just found the "acting" came through way better in the US cd than the London CD, Joe on the London CD too often sounds so flat and generally uninterested in what ever was going on.

As for possible concert casting/revival casting, I'd love to see Julia Murney play Norma, I love her vibrato heavy voice and her facial bone structure would make a stunning Norma

http://www.flickr.com/photos/27199361@N08/ Phantom at the Royal Empire Theatre

#13

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Posted: 4/6/16 at 12:59pm

Norma Desmond - Maggie Smith
Joe Gillis - Justin Bieber
Max von Mayerling - John Cullum
Betty Schaefer - Gaga

#14

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Posted: 4/6/16 at 1:25pm

I'd love to see Julian Ovenden as Joe. I really liked him in the New York Philharmonic Show Boat concert. I agree that this would be better as a Philharmonic concert rather than a Broadway revival.

#15

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Posted: 4/6/16 at 1:26pm

newintown said: "Norma Desmond - Maggie Smith
Joe Gillis - Justin Bieber
Max von Mayerling - John Cullum
Betty Schaefer - Gaga

That casting is so off-the-charts batsh!t crazy that I love it!

#16

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Posted: 4/6/16 at 1:32pm

Patti's original keys were wonderful and thrilling. Norma's singing on the original record is just not good. I don't know what Lloyd Webber sees in her.

"Contentment, it seems, simply happens. It appears accompanied by no bravos and no tears."

#17

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Posted: 4/6/16 at 1:39pm

I'd like to see Christina DeCicco as Betty.

I enjoy the sound/orchestrations more on the American recording, but the voices (apart from Judy Kuhn) on the London recording better.

#18

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Posted: 4/6/16 at 1:43pm

Oh, I would love to see Sierra as Betty. This is something I can get behind. If we all have to sit through Close mirroring the plot in her real life, at least give us a pretty sounding Betty! Andrew, are you listening?

They/them. "Get up the nerve to be all you deserve to be."

#19

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Posted: 4/6/16 at 1:53pm

This score deserves someone like Patti to sing it well. It's about time Lloyd Webber gave her what's due.

#20

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Posted: 4/6/16 at 3:10pm

If Patti and Webber did make up and 20 years later Glenn performs the role in London and Patti brings the concert to New York I think the universe would implode.

#21

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Posted: 4/6/16 at 4:52pm

My picks for Norma (in order) are -

Chita Rivera

Sutton Foster

Kristen Chenoweth

Can Betty be black? Because I'd like to hear Cynthia Erivo sing that track. Love the idea of Ramin as Joe, also possibly Christian Borle (Sutton and Christian as lovers... um).

Caption: Every so often there was a rare moment of perfect balance when I soared above him.

#22

My cast for a possible NY Philharmonic production of

Posted: 4/7/16 at 12:40am

It very much looks like Close will be coming over with the ENO production.

#23

My cast for a possible NY Philharmonic production of

Posted: 4/7/16 at 1:03am

My Choice for Joe Gillis: Cheyenne Jackson. He's gorgeous and smarmy enough.

#24

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Posted: 4/7/16 at 1:42am

I'll never forget as long as I live- Patti did a show in Orange County circa 1996. Before she sang a song from Sunset, she said to the pianist "Please play this next song in the key in which it was written".

Very pointed, and awesome. Very Patti. I ADORE that woman.

#25

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Posted: 4/7/16 at 2:54am

Gosh, I love Patti's bitterness. Especially because she really was the better Norma.

They/them. "Get up the nerve to be all you deserve to be."

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