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SUNSET BLVD. Reviews
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/22/04
SUNSET BLVD. Reviews#275
Posted: 10/29/24 at 4:10am
Scherzinger: 'Sunset' star shines on 'Late' night show
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8l2mH7CqLw
SUNSET BLVD. Reviews#276
Posted: 10/29/24 at 4:26am
She was delightful but it was very funny and shady from Stephen to ask her to sing something from Sondheim and not ALW
SUNSET BLVD. Reviews#277
Posted: 10/29/24 at 7:52am
Wow I’d love her to sing the full song!!!
SUNSET BLVD. Reviews#278
Posted: 10/29/24 at 10:32am
RJ14 said: "She was delightful but it was very funny and shady from Stephen to ask her to sing something from Sondheim and not ALW"
Not shady at all, Colbert is a massive Sondheim nerd.
SUNSET BLVD. Reviews#280
Posted: 10/30/24 at 12:18pm
TotallyEffed said: "RJ14 said: "She was delightful but it was very funny and shady from Stephen to ask her to sing something from Sondheim and not ALW"
Not shady at all, Colbert is a massive Sondheim nerd."
In this context, it's hard to not take into consideration that Sondheim found it impossible to musicalize Sunset Boulevard, but ALW did.
SUNSET BLVD. Reviews#281
Posted: 10/30/24 at 12:27pm
Dancingthrulife2 said: "TotallyEffed said: "RJ14 said: "She was delightful but it was very funny and shady from Stephen to ask her to sing something from Sondheim and not ALW"
Not shady at all, Colbert is a massive Sondheim nerd."
In this context, it's hard to not take into consideration that Sondheim found it impossible to musicalize Sunset Boulevard, but ALW did."
That's not exactly right. Sondheim and Prince considered adapting Sunset Boulevard for Angela Lansbury. When he mentioned this idea to Billy Wilder, Wilder stated, 'It's not a musical, it's an opera.' Sondheim understood what he meant and, not having any interest in writing an opera, moved on.
SUNSET BLVD. Reviews#282
Posted: 10/30/24 at 1:03pm
Hi forgive me for being naive but do shows plant people in the aud?
SUNSET BLVD. Reviews#283
Posted: 10/30/24 at 5:03pm
SonofRobbieJ said: "Dancingthrulife2 said: "TotallyEffed said: "RJ14 said: "She was delightful but it was very funny and shady from Stephen to ask her to sing something from Sondheim and not ALW"
Not shady at all, Colbert is a massive Sondheim nerd."
In this context, it's hard to not take into consideration that Sondheim found it impossible to musicalize Sunset Boulevard, but ALW did."
That's not exactly right. Sondheim and Prince considered adapting Sunset Boulevard for Angela Lansbury. When he mentioned this idea to Billy Wilder, Wilder stated, 'It's not a musical, it's an opera.' Sondheim understood what he meant and, not having any interest in writing an opera, moved on."
What's always been interesting to me about this anecdote is that Sondheim essentially wrote an opera with Sweeney Todd. I don't get why he was willing to do it then, but not earlier.
SUNSET BLVD. Reviews#284
Posted: 10/30/24 at 5:29pm
Sweeney certainly has operatic elements and is done by opera companies but it is still a musical at the end of the day. I suspect what Wilder (and Sondheim) meant was that Norma is such an enormously larger than life character only opera could serve her musically. Real, Maria Callus, major aria after major aria opera. She is a Medea, an Aida, a Queen of the Night.
I feel the same way about Black Swan and cringe when I remember that they are developing a musical version.
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/22/04
SUNSET BLVD. Reviews#285
Posted: 10/31/24 at 2:58am
''That's not exactly right. Sondheim and Prince considered adapting Sunset Boulevard for Angela Lansbury. When he mentioned this idea to Billy Wilder, Wilder stated, 'It's not a musical, it's an opera.' Sondheim understood what he meant and, not having any interest in writing an opera, moved on.''
I can vouch for SonofRobbieJ's post. I had had a friendly correspondence with Sondheim through the years, and back in 1993, I asked him what really happened with him and ''Sunset Boulevard.'' And he wrote me back.
''The facts are these: In the early '60s, right after ''Forum,'' Burt Shevelove and I decided to do a musical of ''Sunset Boulevard.'' We'd actually gone so far as to outline it and plunge into the first scene when I found myself at a cocktail party being introduced to Billy Wilder. I told him of our plans. He replied, " But you can't --!'' I assumed that he was going to tell me how the rights were not available, but he continued: ''It can't be a musical, it must be an opera. It's about a dethroned queen.'' Recognizing the truth of this insight, I called Burt and told him to stop working.
''Lap dissolve, as my mother would say. It is now 1980. "Sweeney Todd" has opened, and Hugh Wheeler asks me to join him and Hal Prince and Angela Lansbury in doing a musical of ''Sunset Boulevard.'' I told the Billy Wilder anecdote, but Hugh insisted that I tell Hal in person, and I agreed. ... When I told Hal my feeling, he immediately replied that he would be delighted to do it as an opera, since Beverly Sills was pushing him to do one anyway.
''I said that if I wanted to do an opera, ''Sunset Boulevard'' might be a very good idea, but I didn't want to do an opera and therefore ''Sunset Boulevard'' wasn't a very good idea. And there it was left, to dry up like a raisin in the sun (wouldn't that make a terrible title for a play?). ...
''I can't imagine going into such detail about such trivia with anybody else. I guess you can take that as a compliment.'' - Best, Steve
SUNSET BLVD. Reviews#286
Posted: 11/1/24 at 2:32pm
Patti will be there next Wednesday according to "The View" today...I want reports.
SUNSET BLVD. Reviews#287
Posted: 11/1/24 at 2:57pm
Am I really about to call out of work on Wednesday to go see Sunset again that evening? I feel as though I MUST be in the same building with her while she is watching it. Hearing a report afterwards simply isn’t enough.
SUNSET BLVD. Reviews#288
Posted: 11/1/24 at 3:06pm
Miserent said: "Am I really about to call out of work on Wednesday to go see Sunset again that evening? I feel as though I MUST be in the same building with her while she is watching it. Hearing a report afterwards simply isn’t enough."
We neeeeeeeeed the tea.
SUNSET BLVD. Reviews#289
Posted: 11/1/24 at 3:41pm
Wow amazing I would also love to be there too. I have a feeling she will prefer the material in this production than her own, given she described the original production as "boring" to watch.
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/22/04
SUNSET BLVD. Reviews#290
Posted: 11/1/24 at 5:45pm
Patti's 'View': I can't wait to see the new 'Sunset Blvd'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOCGtpmFI6E
SUNSET BLVD. Reviews#291
Posted: 11/1/24 at 10:07pm
binau said: "Wow amazing I would also love to be there too. I have a feeling she will prefer the material in this production than her own, given she described the original production as "boring" to watch."
Going to go out on a limb and say she will still hate Sunset Blvd. and anything remotely having to do with the creative work - and will find a way to compliment Nicole while still making sure we know she did it first, she did it better, she wasn't allowed the creative freedom.... blah, blah, blah....
She's already labeled the musical "lumbering" after saying Jamie Lloyd shouldn't be wasting his time with it ("things we have seen") and "there's no accounting for taste... or lack there of" in response to the hosts pointing out it's gotten rave reviews.
It's 3 decades - it's a little late to still be holding on to that bitterness. life's too short
SUNSET BLVD. Reviews#293
Posted: 11/1/24 at 11:13pm
MidWestTheater said: "Patti will be there next Wednesday according to "The View" today...I want reports."
Mat or Eve?
SUNSET BLVD. Reviews#294
Posted: 11/1/24 at 11:22pm
Evening. She has a matinee of The Roommate that day, but no evening show.
SUNSET BLVD. Reviews#295
Posted: 11/1/24 at 11:27pm
Patti will, at last, be giving a performance at the St. James.
SUNSET BLVD. Reviews#296
Posted: 11/1/24 at 11:31pm
MemorableUserName said: "Evening. She has a matinee of The Roommate that day, but no evening show."
oops totally forgot about the Roommate is still running
SUNSET BLVD. Reviews#297
Posted: 11/1/24 at 11:33pm
In your defense, based on the lowered price tickets email I got today, you aren’t alone.
SUNSET BLVD. Reviews#298
Posted: 11/2/24 at 12:22am
Strange Lupone said: "Patti will, at last, be giving a performance at the St. James."
She won a Tony at that theatre!
SUNSET BLVD. Reviews#299
Posted: 11/2/24 at 12:43am
TotallyEffed said: "Strange Lupone said: "Patti will, at last, be giving a performance at the St. James."
She won a Tony at that theatre!"
For a terrible performance. No nuance, no humor, no pathos, no understanding of the character. Just a steamroller going at 300 MPH.
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