Sunset Blvd Changes Question — Page 7

Is the book you got those pictures from the one by Christopher Hampton? This one: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0571172148/ref=wl_itt_dp/103-4922773-9378249?ie=UTF8&coliid=I33VZVL0RV2RDU&colid=1CFAHV8KT6AWR ? Amazon has some listed for little less than 6 bucks on their marketplace.

Nope. That is only the libretto/script/book of the stage version.

Below is the book that those photos came from -- it's the 1993 hardcover book SUNSET BLVD: From Movie to Musical, which focused on bringing the original London production to the stage (it was published prior to the American Premiere production):


http://www.amazon.com/SUNSET-BLVD-MUSICAL-George-Perry/dp/B000HG2CNU/ref=sr_1_1/002-4237308-1423246?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1179886767&sr=1-1

It has the Libretto as of the World Premiere in London - none of the (many and substantial) revisions are included

Well Wicked seems to be following suit; every production since has been a replica of the original. I can see you what you mean, though; RENT's overseas productions were often different than the original broadway production, notably the London production. Different costumes, etc.

Updated On: 5/23/07 at 09:14 PM

OK - with all this renewed/recent interest in Sunset Blvd - and even though I've gotten yelled at on here before about posting Ebay stuff...

- I've posted three things on Ebay for sale of some neat Sunset memorabilia - press clippings, magazine articles, etc.

Not your garden variety stuff either -

I'm not posting the links here so I don't get screamed at - but if you have trouble finding them, PM me. Just search "Sunset Blvd" on ebay - my seller name is the same - chernjam

Jim

How I miss Livent--their Canadian tours were really spectacular (i know many, at the time it may be different now, thought that their tour of Phantom was better staged and closer to the Broadway/London than the US tour of the same time--and they did get Hal to stage it himself) and seeing Sunset in their newly built Ford Theatre in Vancouver was just amazing.

But yeah I think they were just a bit too ambitious--as I said above for me in many ways Sunset marked the end of the megamusical in its most spectacular (for good and for bad) form

I've only heard her rendition of 'With one look' and I wasn't all that impressed.

OK so back to the Schulman directed tour--how was the car chase staged? because I just foudn a review that said nothign except that it brought a LOT of laughter from the audience...

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I assume not--cuz when I saw the originalstaging in Vancouver I foudn the car chase thrilling (the use of bit sof the movies and then almsot "cut out" or "pop out" bits of real scenes/props--wonderful) and hear dno laughing and I *believe* like the opening,t hat was one of the complciated scene bits they go rid of for the new tour/design

I knew I could count on you and your slightly less than legal myriad videos thanks

Have you seen how anal youtube has been lately? would be useless

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There's a pretty good description of what all went on in all of the London/LA/Broadway/Touring productions of "Sunset Boulevard" in

"Close-up on Sunset Boulevard: Billy Wilder, Norma Desmond, and the Dark Hollywood Dream" by Sam Staggs. (He wrote the book "All About 'All About Eve'")

I'm surprised that no one has mentioned it before.

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Oy! What a refresher -- just finished watching the car chase sequence from the 2nd US National Tour.

Okay, kiddies...here's how it went down:

Scrim comes down and a red open-front replica of a vintage late 40's car slides onto the stage. Since it's facing the audience and since it's all open in front it resembles an amusement park little car with Joe driving it. All the while, a combination of black & white stock film footage and footage from the original film is projected behind him, showing him driving thru the Hollywood hills, etc. When his tire blows, the film stock ends, complete with the scrolling numerical countdown and the end title: FINISH. Joe then steps out of the 'car', and when he turns it around to push it into the garage, we see the full and complete rear portion of the car. They should have had a full car instead of cutting it in half like that (you can audibly hear a few chuckles coming from the audience when Joe was sitting in the open-end front of the car).

What fun! Now...back to Kathy Griffin on BRAVO! Yes...AGAIN!