Sunset Boulevard — Page 2

I see it everywhere too....It's not hard to find, it says 'SUnset Boulevard' STARRING GLEN CLOSE....it's okay reading is hard. And by the way Chi chi...isn't that a gay porn director's name? I am not completely sure. I only worte the beach scenes in 'Justin to Kelly'. Being from Hawai'i they needed someone with experience.

It actually says ¨Premiere American Recording¨. You can buy it at thr Really Useful group website. I do not like Patti in Sunset. her diction kills me and I think she was or at least seemed too young for the part. Some people say she was Lupone playing the character of LuPone. I didn´t see her so I don´t know. I loved Patti in Sweeney Todd and Evita, loved her Patti LuPone Live Cd but hated her in Sunset. For some reason her performances for me are love or hate. Sometimes I think she has a great voice but other times I can´t stand a full song. Anyway, hope you find the recording with Glenn. No Callas herself, Glenn does make you feel like you´re watching her onstage, she acts out the songs so well that you can really get what she is singing about. My humble thoughts.

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Isn't Betty Buckley that girl from CAR.... I can't bring myself to say it,

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La Lupone was very upset the night she found out she wouldn't get the chance to play Norma Desmond on Broadway. So upset in fact that she smashed up her dressing room. Her final performance of the role in London is the stuff of legend. The ovation at the end was so sustained with so many people throwing flowers, she ended up laying down in them on stage, if memory serves. But she didn't make everyone's lives hell. In fact, she insisted that her dresser come to New York with her because there was nobody better. He stayed on after she left and Betty Buckley took over, but she was such a horror to work with, he left before she drove him to a breakdown.

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Not with Liza Minnelli!

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How long was Patti in the London production? Betty Buckley came after her and the who? then? does anyone know the order of the norma's in the entire London run?

"Isn't Betty Buckley that girl from CAR.... I can't bring myself to say it,"

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA !!!

You mean the WOMAN from Carrie. She played Carrie's mother as well as the original Grizabella in Cats and Edwin Drood in The Mystery of Edwin Drood and Hesione in Triumph of Love. Most famous for playing Abby on Eight is Enough, Betty Buckley also starred in 1776 and Promises, Promises in London and replaced Bernadette Peters in Song and Dance (and got better reviews), and Tyne Daly in the revival of Gyspy and also in 1776 and Pippin on Broadway.

That girl from Carrie was Linzi Hately of the UK.

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Elaine Paige was the original Grizabella in CATS.

picky picky bronx, but Betty Buckley was part of the original Broadway cast of Cats... Our dear Ms. Paige was the original in London - and so was the very first Grizabella...

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Does anyone know why Betty Buckley was ¨such a horror to work with¨? I saw her in London and she was an amazing Norma. I think the order of London Normas goes something like Patti, Betty, Elaine, Petula, but I don´t know all of them.

Elaine was also the London Evita, before LuPone did it on Broadway. She did Anything Goes in London after Patti did it in Lincoln Center. Funny how intertwined these actresses and their characters are.

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I saw both Glenn Close and Betty Buckley. Liked Close better. Buckley's vibratto was too much, she sounded like she was under water. Re: Carrie.... Betty Buckley was in the original film as well, she played the gym teacher.

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Actually, the VERY first regional production of this show is underway in Illinois, I believe...you can find out about that at www.playbill.com. So the rights have to be available by now. I recommend the VERY RARE book 'SUSET BOULEVARD: from movie to musical.' It is amazing to read about How Patti LuPone got the role in the show. She performed 'WITH ONE LOOK' at ALW's estate and not one person left the building (including Meryl Streep) witha dry eye. Apparently it was one of the most public 'auditions' for a role ever done. Kinda like when Bernadette did 'Some People' in her concert. BANK! I think one of the problems with the WORLD PREMIERE RECORDING is Kevin ANderson, I think he is horrible, not to mention the girl who plays Betty. Probably didn't help Patti to have bad singers and actors to work off of.

bogey_LIVE - I much prefer Kevin Anderson to Alan Campbell. Alan has a habit is accenting every beat of every song and opening his vowels. Kevin Anderson seamlessly mixes the speaking and singing so that it sounds more natural and though I love Judy Kuhn, the London Betty Schaeffer (her name escapes me at the moment) sounds much younger and more naive like the original character from the film. Patti's With One Look will always be my favorite because there is no sudden drop in the key at the end of the song. It is much stronger and more powerful. When they dropped the key later, I thought it really weakened the finale of the best number in the show.

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