SUNSET BLVD. Reviews — Page 23

ACL2006 said: "pablitonizer said: "MemorableUserName said: "Deadline: Nicole Scherzinger Apologizes For Post-Election Social Media Post: “From A Place Of Love”

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PR move, she still believes in the same awful things"

Yep. She likely didn't even write that herself. The box office probably got slammed today and they needed to clean this up ASAP."

Of course PR people would be involved in either the writing or editing. They are specifically paid to help stars manage controversial situations. Wouldn't surprise me if a producer or two also was a part of the effort.

Oh, great. Seb wants to get back to demanding people explain what they liked about this production.

MemorableUserName said: "Oh, great. Seb wants to get back to demanding people explain what they liked about this production."

Strangely enough people seem to be much more objective and honest about why they do or don't like her performance, since 3 days. I wish this honesty and substantiation was always there.

yahyahyah said: "Thankfully, this allowed the several many of us who did NOT enjoy her work as much as others in SB to have space to express our thoughts.

Her Norma felt like an insincere clown show with stellar vocals. Like a drag queen poking fun at Norma with a SUNSET tribute mashup—with all the knowingcampiness of “those famous lines” etc. I didn’t believe her outside of the songs. Why the ridiculous stage gymnastics and splits? It was all as if the director and star wanted to telegraph that they thought this role, woman and material was ridiculous. So why bother? She is a talented pop vocalist, sure, but character and true storytelling is not happening here. It’s all extremely studied vocal dynamics and calculated emotional affectations in the songs—supported by a very talented sound design team. Not powered by the truth of a real actor like the likes of Glenn, Patti, Betty, etc. I think she betrays herself by telling us she thinks she’s ridiculous/campy, so we can never trust her to protect Norma’s heartgoing forward. Not the work of a serious actress.
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This is actually well described and sums up my thoughts pretty well. I think she is mainly a victim of bad direction.

Updated On: 11/8/24 at 09:38 PM

MemorableUserName said: "A better statement found on IG

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Is this real? I don’t see it on her ig

So I thought it was parody but honestly would’ve preferred it to the one we got

Never in my life would I think that Seb’a vendetta to trash the show again is suddenly comforting. Welcome back!!!

Seb28 said: "Jonathan Cohen said: "I was watching the original Sunset Boulevard last night, and Gloria Swanson was giving one of the biggest, campiest performances I'd ever seen in a mainstream movie. Rather than being a bad actress, I think Nicole Scherzinger just understood the assignment.Desmond being ridiculous and larger than life was always part of the story."

I don't think this is a fair comparison. The text (lyrics) actually matched the characters in the film. Both Norma and Joe never broke the 4th wall. It really is not comparable."

In the film, Joe is a narrating corpse. I'd say he's very aware he's in a story.

In general, I think the references to the Pussycat Dolls and Lloyd Webber in the musical are very much in the spirit of the original film, which played off Gloria Swanson's past. For example when Joe and Norma are watching an old Norma movie, it was a real silent film starring Gloria Swanson that had been directed Erich von Stroheim, the actor playing Max.

Or how Cecil B. DeMille calls Norma "young fella", his nickname for Swanson from the actual silent films they made together.

Updated On: 11/9/24 at 05:36 AM

BrodyFosse123 said: "Or howCecil B. DeMille callsNorma "young fella", her nickname forSwanson from the actual silent films they made together.

Cecil B. DeMille was a man:

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Thanks for the clarification! I thought he was the exit sign. (I fixed the typo)

Huss417 said: "I thought I would ask again as my last post got lost in all the back and forth in this thread yesterday.

Would anyone happen to know if Tom Francis is back in the show for the weekend?

Thanks

It's my understand Tom was back, but Grace was not.

Understudies are on for both Joe and Artie at today’s matinee.

At least four people have been arrested. And from what I’ve observed, people who claim to read “all sources” tend to give the most credence to low quality sources that tell them what they already believe.


Maybe just stick to having disproportionately passionate feelings about mediocre megamusicals, which you have been doing here for years under different usernames, almost always ending up taking a distinctly bigoted tone.

Updated On: 11/9/24 at 05:39 PM

Is there any news about the possible filming of this show? Someone on here said that Jamie Lloyd was interested in that.

Personally I think that Tom and Nicole deserve to be in a better, more sincere production of Sunset, either on stage or an actual feature film (if she can act it).

Updated On: 11/9/24 at 08:07 PM