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SUNSET BLVD. Reviews

Wayman_Wong
#275SUNSET BLVD. Reviews
Posted: 10/29/24 at 4:10am

Scherzinger: 'Sunset' star shines on 'Late' night show

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8l2mH7CqLw

 

RJ14
#276SUNSET BLVD. Reviews
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

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binau
#277SUNSET BLVD. Reviews
Posted: 10/29/24 at 7:52am

Wow I’d love her to sing the full song!!!


When my goodbye post was removed: “but I had a great dramatic finish!!!!”

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TotallyEffed
#278SUNSET BLVD. Reviews
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.

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WldKingdomHM
#279SUNSET BLVD. Reviews
Posted: 10/29/24 at 10:48am

She’s magnetic 

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Dancingthrulife2
#280SUNSET BLVD. Reviews
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.
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In this context, it's hard to not take into consideration that Sondheim found it impossible to musicalize Sunset Boulevard, but ALW did.

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SonofRobbieJ
#281SUNSET BLVD. Reviews
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.
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In this context, it's hard to not take into consideration that Sondheim found it impossible to musicalize Sunset Boulevard, but ALW did.
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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. 

ItsShelley
#282SUNSET BLVD. Reviews
Posted: 10/30/24 at 1:03pm

Hi forgive me for being naive but do shows plant people in the aud?

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joevitus
#283SUNSET BLVD. Reviews
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.
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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. 

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TotallyEffed
#284SUNSET BLVD. Reviews
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.

 

Wayman_Wong
#285SUNSET BLVD. Reviews
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

 

Updated On: 10/31/24 at 02:58 AM

MidWestTheater
#286SUNSET BLVD. Reviews
Posted: 11/1/24 at 2:32pm

Patti will be there next Wednesday according to "The View" today...I want reports.

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Miserent
#287SUNSET BLVD. Reviews
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.

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TotallyEffed
#288SUNSET BLVD. Reviews
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.

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binau
#289SUNSET BLVD. Reviews
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.


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Updated On: 11/1/24 at 03:41 PM

Wayman_Wong
#290SUNSET BLVD. Reviews
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

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chernjam
#291SUNSET BLVD. Reviews
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

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TaffyDavenport
#292SUNSET BLVD. Reviews
Posted: 11/1/24 at 10:28pm

Here's Patti's full interview:

 

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Robbie2
#293SUNSET BLVD. Reviews
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?


"Anything you do, let it it come from you--then it will be new." Sunday in the Park with George

MemorableUserName
#294SUNSET BLVD. Reviews
Posted: 11/1/24 at 11:22pm

Evening. She has a matinee of The Roommate that day, but no evening show.

Strange Lupone
#295SUNSET BLVD. Reviews
Posted: 11/1/24 at 11:27pm

Patti will, at last, be giving a performance at the St. James.


“I attended Gypsy last night with several family members that are staying at the same hotel . I walked them to the elevators and as I was leaving, Audra came in fast and this disgusting, huge, ogre of a man came blasting through the revolving door, nearly falling. He got extremely close to her, shoved a playbill in her face and said "I came alllll the way from Houston so you OWE me an autograph sister". Four security guards from the hotel staff immediately swarmed him until the cops arrived. It was horrifying and women have experienced this kind of illegal, terrifying behavior forever. If you were followed back to where you were staying in the city OP, pretty sure you wouldn't call it "foolery" because it's not. It's felony stalking. Do better. And I will NEVER be quiet regarding women's safety (especially by loser men in this thread) as this has happened to me and millions of other women as well. Enough..” —-Sutton Ross, 8/16/25 “Pretty incredible coincidence that the night before this post was made, Sutton was allegedly not only at Gypsy, but ended up at the same hotel, managed to witness an incident that perfectly aligns with the topic at hand, stayed long enough to see how it resolved despite being with family members, and it wasn’t even the first thing she replied to this thread with- she only brought it up after she had been challenged by multiple members. ” — Kad, 8/16/25

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Robbie2
#296SUNSET BLVD. Reviews
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


"Anything you do, let it it come from you--then it will be new." Sunday in the Park with George

Strange Lupone
#297SUNSET BLVD. Reviews
Posted: 11/1/24 at 11:33pm

In your defense, based on the lowered price tickets email I got today, you aren’t alone.


“I attended Gypsy last night with several family members that are staying at the same hotel . I walked them to the elevators and as I was leaving, Audra came in fast and this disgusting, huge, ogre of a man came blasting through the revolving door, nearly falling. He got extremely close to her, shoved a playbill in her face and said "I came alllll the way from Houston so you OWE me an autograph sister". Four security guards from the hotel staff immediately swarmed him until the cops arrived. It was horrifying and women have experienced this kind of illegal, terrifying behavior forever. If you were followed back to where you were staying in the city OP, pretty sure you wouldn't call it "foolery" because it's not. It's felony stalking. Do better. And I will NEVER be quiet regarding women's safety (especially by loser men in this thread) as this has happened to me and millions of other women as well. Enough..” —-Sutton Ross, 8/16/25 “Pretty incredible coincidence that the night before this post was made, Sutton was allegedly not only at Gypsy, but ended up at the same hotel, managed to witness an incident that perfectly aligns with the topic at hand, stayed long enough to see how it resolved despite being with family members, and it wasn’t even the first thing she replied to this thread with- she only brought it up after she had been challenged by multiple members. ” — Kad, 8/16/25

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TotallyEffed
#298SUNSET BLVD. Reviews
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!

Strange Lupone
#299SUNSET BLVD. Reviews
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!
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For a terrible performance. No nuance, no humor, no pathos, no understanding of the character. Just a steamroller going at 300 MPH.

 


“I attended Gypsy last night with several family members that are staying at the same hotel . I walked them to the elevators and as I was leaving, Audra came in fast and this disgusting, huge, ogre of a man came blasting through the revolving door, nearly falling. He got extremely close to her, shoved a playbill in her face and said "I came alllll the way from Houston so you OWE me an autograph sister". Four security guards from the hotel staff immediately swarmed him until the cops arrived. It was horrifying and women have experienced this kind of illegal, terrifying behavior forever. If you were followed back to where you were staying in the city OP, pretty sure you wouldn't call it "foolery" because it's not. It's felony stalking. Do better. And I will NEVER be quiet regarding women's safety (especially by loser men in this thread) as this has happened to me and millions of other women as well. Enough..” —-Sutton Ross, 8/16/25 “Pretty incredible coincidence that the night before this post was made, Sutton was allegedly not only at Gypsy, but ended up at the same hotel, managed to witness an incident that perfectly aligns with the topic at hand, stayed long enough to see how it resolved despite being with family members, and it wasn’t even the first thing she replied to this thread with- she only brought it up after she had been challenged by multiple members. ” — Kad, 8/16/25


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