Nicole Scherzinger to star in West End Sunset Boulevard at the Savoy- Page 5

[BorisTomashevsky]

Posted: 8/14/23 at 9:39pm

Looks like a drama school graduating class production of Sunset. 

[Dolly80]

Posted: 8/15/23 at 2:26am

It’s a 17 piece orchestra, and no set!!

[blaxx]

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.

[WldKingdomHM]

Posted: 8/15/23 at 6:50am

Maybe they can have ghost Joe walk out into the London streets at the end. 

[Lot666]

Posted: 8/15/23 at 9:17am

That trailer. Oh dear.

[ErmengardeStopSniveling]

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.

[FANtomFollies]

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]

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]

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]

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]

Posted: 8/16/23 at 12:36am

Uber Lux?

[WldKingdomHM]

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 !!!

 

[binau]

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? 

[pmensky]

Posted: 8/16/23 at 4:25pm

No, no. The ensemble is going to join together to form the car. Like Voltron.

[Musicaldudepeter]

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]

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]

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.

 

Updated On: 8/17/23 at 10:47 AM

[TaffyDavenport]

Posted: 9/1/23 at 11:21am

[Jordan Catalano]

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]

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]

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]

Posted: 9/1/23 at 1:13pm

This is by far one of my favorite ALW scores. And she will deliver vocally.

[Dylan Smith4]

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! 

[Robbie2]

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!

[DJD4]

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.