SARAH BRIGHTMAN To Star in Australian SUNSET BLVD. — Page 10

Especially if they can't even give it away... *sung in Patti's voice*

Sarah is deeply loved, especially by us here, but the general public would probably be shocked to hear a quiet voice from her in what is supposed to be an exciting evening of musical theater.

That review posted in full seems to nail it. Thank you for sharing it with us.

I really would be curious to hear a review of the understudy(s).

I really dislike that her hair is always out and perfect. Sorry, but glamorous youthful Sarah needed to play the part. Norma wears a turban.

Does anyone know if this set might go on tour somewhere? Would they really go through the expense of building it just to trash it in a few weeks? This revival looks so nice.

Not sure about Sarah's costumes though...

Listener said: "Especially if they can't even give it away... *sung in Patti's voice*

Sarah is deeply loved, especially by us here, but the general public would probably be shocked to hear a quiet voice from her in what is supposed to be an exciting evening of musical theater.

That review posted in full seems to nail it. Thank you for sharing it with us.

I really would be curious to hear a review of the understudy(s).

I really dislike that her hair is always out and perfect. Sorry, but glamorous youthful Sarah needed to playthe part. Norma wears a turban.

Does anyone know if this set might go on tour somewhere? Would they really go through theexpense of building it just to trash it in a few weeks? This revival looks so nice.

Not sure about Sarah's costumes though..."

Sarah likes to do this Christmas tour thing these days, so she wouldn't be available to tour immediately after this show ends its run. So maybe her alternate would do it, but I don't think she would.

rosscoe(au) said: "Absolute massive flop in Melbourne, performances cancelled, final week pulled off sale. If this was London or New York this would have closed by now. Opera Australia subscribers returning tickets. I’ll be surprised if the Sydney season goes ahead."



Now if Ben Platt was playing Norma, it'd be an entirely different scenario!

rosscoe(au) said: "Absolute massive flop in Melbourne, performances cancelled, final week pulled off sale. If this was London or New York this would have closed by now. Opera Australia subscribers returning tickets. I’ll be surprised if the Sydney season goes ahead."

I've heard the same about the production, she's just not a draw down under!

This is so unfortunate because the blame will fall on Sarah Brightman who many thought from the beginning was not a good casting choice for Norma. I have never been a fan of her voice - even decades ago when she recorded one of my favorites from Aspects of Love "Anything but lonely" with the altered ending that was added after the London Cast Recording - she paled in comparison to Ann Crumb.
And unless I've missed it, you barely have had any official clips of her singing released. The promo video uncharacteristically for Sunset was more on Joe Gillis singing the title song and "Too Much in Love to Care." That seemed pretty telling that things weren't going great vocally and the clip of her speaking "I am big... it's the pictures that got small" just sounded awkward to me.
I feel badly for everyone involved, including Brightman. It looked like a beautifully lavish production - from some of the descriptions and all, it sounds like a lot of thought was brought to the look, feel and direction of things. And I'm sure Brightman is getting paid a decent salary.

If anything, this will make another good book or add another episode to Broadway Bob's "Sunset Project" podcast :)

Fortunate for ALW that he seemed to not have any involvement with this production

I'm very sad for all involved. Had it not been for the extremely long-haul flights required, this is something I would've seen, regardless of the reviews.

This isn't surprising at all, I knew it would fail as soon as it was announced that Sarah Brightman will be starting in it. What I found most shocking was that some Americans actually bought tickets to fly to Australia to see it!!!!!!!!

I managed to see her last winter during her holiday tour. When she sang the title song from Phantom, my inner theatre geek was freaking out. While I was not alive yet during her phantom years, I can safely say that seeing her still being able to belt that out at her age is truly remarkable.

tomwsjr said: "This isn't surprising at all, I knew it would failas soon as it was announced that Sarah Brightman will be starting in it. What I found most shocking was that some Americans actually bought tickets to fly to Australia to see it!!!!!!!!"

You must be great fun at parties.

Welp, there goes any chance of them filming or recording it.

Sarah has been out the last few shows and hearing rumblings of her departure altogether... Time will tell.

I think her fans just want to see her perform on Broadway again.

Yes, it seems a done deal that she won’t be appearing in Sydney. The next week is going to be interesting.