SUNSET BOULEVARD West End Revival Coming?

[TaffyDavenport]

SUNSET BOULEVARD West End Revival Coming?#1

Posted: 5/16/23 at 12:45pm

https://theatrefan.co.uk/rumour-andrew-lloyd-webbers-sunset-boulevard-west-end-revival-planned/

[A Justified Bean]

SUNSET BOULEVARD West End Revival Coming?#2

Posted: 5/16/23 at 12:47pm

I would love to see Imelda Staunton do this

The slotted spoon can catch the potato.

[Dylan Smith4]

SUNSET BOULEVARD West End Revival Coming?#3

Posted: 5/16/23 at 1:11pm

Well, it's probably not happening while I'm there this summer! Also, I thought Imelda was going to do Hello Dolly in London next year. 

The idea is to work and to experiment. Some things will be creatively successful, some things will succeed at the box office, and some things will only - which is the biggest only - teach you things that see the future. And they're probably as valuable as any of your successes. -Harold Prince

[JSquared2]

SUNSET BOULEVARD West End Revival Coming?#4

Posted: 5/16/23 at 1:19pm

A Justified Bean said: "I would love to see Imelda Staunton do this"

 

Oh Dear God No!

 

[Highland Guy]

SUNSET BOULEVARD West End Revival Coming?#5

Posted: 5/16/23 at 1:34pm

A Justified Bean said: "I would love to see Imelda Staunton do this"

Oh Dear God Yes!

Non sibi sed patriae

[JasonC3]

SUNSET BOULEVARD West End Revival Coming?#6

Posted: 5/16/23 at 1:43pm

Lots of interesting rumors, conjectures, and wishes in this short thread over at London TheatreBoard

https://theatreboard.co.uk/thread/10677/sunset-boulevard-savoy-theatre-2023

 

[RippedMan]

SUNSET BOULEVARD West End Revival Coming?#7

Posted: 5/16/23 at 1:57pm

Feel like the only way to revive this would go the opposite way and have it be a tiny production. 

[nasty_khakis]

SUNSET BOULEVARD West End Revival Coming?#8

Posted: 5/16/23 at 2:00pm

Hannah Waddingham? She's 48 and Norma should be ~50. She's a name, especially in the West End and now elsewhere thanks to Ted Lasso.

[Dylan Smith4]

SUNSET BOULEVARD West End Revival Coming?#9

Posted: 5/16/23 at 2:04pm

I wonder if maybe Stephanie J Block will do it. London audiences would ABSOLUTELY love her!

The idea is to work and to experiment. Some things will be creatively successful, some things will succeed at the box office, and some things will only - which is the biggest only - teach you things that see the future. And they're probably as valuable as any of your successes. -Harold Prince

[JasonC3]

SUNSET BOULEVARD West End Revival Coming?#10

Posted: 5/16/23 at 2:15pm

RippedMan said: "Feel like the only way to revive this would go the opposite way and have it be a tiny production."

The '08 London revival sort of did that as the actors played instruments ala Doyle.

https://playbill.com/article/london-revival-of-sunset-boulevard-to-close-may-30-com-161029

I thought it was OK.

 

[jacobsnchz14]

SUNSET BOULEVARD West End Revival Coming?#11

Posted: 5/16/23 at 2:24pm

The circulating rumor is Scherzinger. 

[willep]

SUNSET BOULEVARD West End Revival Coming?#12

Posted: 5/16/23 at 2:41pm

nasty_khakis said: "Hannah Waddingham? She's 48 and Norma should be ~50. She's a name, especially in the West End and now elsewhere thanks to Ted Lasso."

Yes please.

[morosco]

SUNSET BOULEVARD West End Revival Coming?#13

Posted: 5/16/23 at 3:07pm

It would never happen because she's not a huge "name" (yet) but I'd love to see Mazz Murray as Norma.

Mazz Murray - Sunset Boulevard

[Ke3]

SUNSET BOULEVARD West End Revival Coming?#14

Posted: 5/16/23 at 3:39pm

jacobsnchz14 said: "The circulating rumor is Scherzinger."

lol, how many roles will she circle before she actually commits to something? although I do suspect with the PCD reunion completely off the table, and no real possibility of a solo career after over a decade, we might see Miss Scherzinger go full force into theatre after teasing it so many times.

[A Justified Bean]

SUNSET BOULEVARD West End Revival Coming?#15

Posted: 5/16/23 at 3:52pm

I'm here for Hannah Waddingham doing literally anything - I bet she would be fabulous.

Imelda is probably better suited to play Dolly if that rumor is true, but I was thinking she would pull off Norma's mania pretty well.

The slotted spoon can catch the potato.

Updated On: 5/16/23 at 03:52 PM

[pmensky]

SUNSET BOULEVARD West End Revival Coming?#16

Posted: 5/16/23 at 4:18pm

Mazz Murray would be great, but if they want a star, they’d be smart to go with Hannah Waddingham and let Mazz Murray be the replacement. Imelda Staunton isn’t right for this.

[Jordan Catalano]

SUNSET BOULEVARD West End Revival Coming?#17

Posted: 5/16/23 at 5:54pm

A Justified Bean said: "I'm here for Hannah Waddingham doing literally anything - I bet she would be fabulous.

Imelda is probably better suited to play Dolly if that rumor is true, but I was thinking she would pull off Norma's mania pretty well."

Imelda as Dolly isn’t a rumor - it’s happening next summer at the Palladium. 

[Bettyboy72]

SUNSET BOULEVARD West End Revival Coming?#18

Posted: 5/16/23 at 7:51pm

Can Olivia Colman sing? She’s be a marvel. 

"The sexual energy between the mother and son really concerns me!"-random woman behind me at Next to Normal "I want to meet him after and bang him!"-random woman who exposed her breasts at Rock of Ages, referring to James Carpinello

[Listener]

SUNSET BOULEVARD West End Revival Coming?#19

Posted: 5/17/23 at 2:32am

morosco said: "It would never happen because she's not a huge "name" (yet) but I'd love to see Mazz Murray as Norma.

Mazz Murray - Sunset Boulevard"

Mazz absolutely has the pipes and I'd like to see her in this.

The trouble is they keep casting names....Imelda is 400% wrong for this. Whoever does it needs A) the voice B) the acting chops and C) the face. Imelda maybe has B, if that.

Norma's a tough nut to crack.

I hope it's well designed and directed. We need a grand staircase!

[RippedMan]

SUNSET BOULEVARD West End Revival Coming?#20

Posted: 5/17/23 at 2:33am

Hannah would be fantastic and worked with ALW on the Wizard of Oz. 
 

I guess my only reasoning would be why? Like what’s the reason to revive it now? What’s the new concept? It’s my favorite ALW score and I love the original movie, so i am here for it. 

[JasonC3]

SUNSET BOULEVARD West End Revival Coming?#21

Posted: 5/17/23 at 3:22am

I'm not trying to be flippant, but why does anything get revived or for that matter, originally created?  Someone wants to do it (performer, producer, director) and if they can get enough people to back it, they put it on stage. 

[A Justified Bean]

SUNSET BOULEVARD West End Revival Coming?#22

Posted: 5/17/23 at 10:53am

Jordan Catalano said: "A Justified Bean said: "I'm here for Hannah Waddingham doing literally anything - I bet she would be fabulous.

Imelda is probably better suited to play Dolly if that rumor is true, but I was thinking she would pull off Norma's mania pretty well."

Imelda as Dolly isn’t a rumor - it’s happening next summer at the Palladium."

My bad! I didn't realize it was really happening.  Thank you! 

I redact my statement that she would be a good Norma, but I am excited to see her as Dolly. 

 

The slotted spoon can catch the potato.

[Lot666]

SUNSET BOULEVARD West End Revival Coming?#23

Posted: 5/17/23 at 2:55pm

Listener said: "I hope it's well designed and directed. We need a grand staircase!"



 

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[binau]

SUNSET BOULEVARD West End Revival Coming?#24

Posted: 5/17/23 at 3:34pm

Imelda Staunton has already played Norma Desmond twice in London and doesn’t need to do it a third time. Because the two revivals she did were so close together and ill-timed with the Lonny Price Glenn Close concert for marketing purposes the first revival was called Gypsy and the second Follies. 

Give me claws and a hunch, just away from this bunch.