"Sunset Blvd" (The Song) Question

When he says, "...before tommrow's execution..."

Is Joe forshadowing his own death? Does he know that he'll probably die? Does he know that he'll have go phsyco on the girl to get her to leave the mansion before she's hurt?

Oh, I totally forgot that point. He IS narrating. But then, is this song part of the "story" or is it Joe narrating what is going on? I was just wondering. I was trying to figure out how I would play this song if I were the character and I had some trouble.

Me too. It's one of my fav. scores to listen to all the way through. I just love it. I would KILL to be in that show.

I always thought it would be interesting if they took a pause after "tommorow's execution...-pause- Sunset Blvd...." to make it more dramatic.

I have the Broadway version. I think I might prefer Patti Lupone because she has the better voice to listen to. Though, I think Glenn Close does a damn good job in the role. To me you don't have to have a very pretty voice to play the part because it sort of lends itself to that. She is the forgotten movie star, so it's good that she has a decent voice, but nothing steller. It's like, you could tell that maybe in her prime she was a great singer, but now that she's old and wasting away, she's loosing what she had.

I think all of us, in real life, have a gut feeling before disaster occurs. Especially when we know we've been up to no good ie. using someone. That would be a real life experience to put in the character. I dont think he was referring to an actual physical death, but a foreshadowing of something bad about to occur.

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I think it's also a reference to John the Baptist, to whom Joe compares himself in Act I: "My work was over/I was feeling no pain/Locked up like John the Baptist." Later, in Act II Norma also compares him to John th Baptist: "When he scorned me I/Knew he'd have to die/Let me kiss his severed head."

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