Sunset Boulevard London Cast Recording
Sunset Boulevard London Cast Recording
RyToast1
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/27/07
#1Sunset Boulevard London Cast Recording
Posted: 3/12/08 at 10:40am
Good morning 
I'm looking to download (legally, duh) the London Cast recording of Sunset Boulevard with Patti LuPone, but I can't find it anywhere; not on iTunes, not on amazon.com....nowhere!
Does anyone know of any site online that'll allow me to download it? I'm really jonesin' this album, and I don't want to order it and wait for it to be mailed.
My last resort is going to Virgin Times Square later today on my break. HELP!
i love you all
Updated On: 3/12/08 at 10:40 AM
#2re: Sunset Boulevard London Cast Recording
Posted: 3/12/08 at 10:42amRy, I can send it to you.
-Kad
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#2re: Sunset Boulevard London Cast Recording
Posted: 3/12/08 at 11:20amBetty Buckley's version is better
#3re: Sunset Boulevard London Cast Recording
Posted: 3/12/08 at 11:21amDid you check cd baby (I don't actually know if they do) but sometimes they do have stuff itunes doesn't. I love Patti in this show....her voice is divine as always
husk_charmer
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/19/06
#4re: Sunset Boulevard London Cast Recording
Posted: 3/12/08 at 11:25amI agree folky. Buckley was amazing.
pc1145N2
Broadway Star Joined: 5/28/07
#5re: Sunset Boulevard London Cast Recording
Posted: 3/12/08 at 11:29amI prefered LuPone's version. There's something about Betty's version that doesn't work for me.
#6re: Sunset Boulevard London Cast Recording
Posted: 3/12/08 at 11:30amI agree, Betty Buckley was amazing, but I'm also partial to Elaine Paige.
#7re: Sunset Boulevard London Cast Recording
Posted: 3/12/08 at 12:24pmi love love betty buckley's version as well!
puppetman2
Leading Actor Joined: 3/2/08
#8re: Sunset Boulevard London Cast Recording
Posted: 3/12/08 at 12:29pm
A friend in London sent me a cd of Michael Ball and Petula doing the whole show - dialogue etc. and both are wonderful. Saw Clark in the US tour and she was the best I have seen.
The London cast is OK, but I think Lupone isn't that great.
#9re: Sunset Boulevard London Cast Recording
Posted: 3/12/08 at 12:33pm
I love LuPone's Norma.
I also love Buckley's, but I've only heard her performance thanks to the few tracks that she slapped onto the end of her out of print "Betty Buckley's Broadway" album.
The CD that the "Sunset" production released of Buckley singing several tracks is long out of print and essentially unobtainable, right?
#10re: Sunset Boulevard London Cast Recording
Posted: 3/12/08 at 1:12pm
A friend in London sent me a cd of Michael Ball and Petula doing the whole show - dialogue etc. and both are wonderful
They did the show in concert at the Opera House in Cork and the full performance was transmitted on BBC Radio in 2004. I'm not a fan of the show or Petula Clark in the role - she 'undersells' the diva numbers and her characterisation is . . . interesting. Having said that, according to wikipedia she has played the role more than any other actress, so what do I know?
BrodyFosse123
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/27/06
#11re: Sunset Boulevard London Cast Recording
Posted: 3/12/08 at 1:34pm
Sadly, no one ever mentions Linda Balgord's Norma. Both Linda and LuPone are the only ones to ever sing Norma in the original key.
with Ron Bohmer as Joe Gillis: 
ErinDillyFan
Broadway Star Joined: 7/14/06
#12re: Sunset Boulevard London Cast Recording
Posted: 3/12/08 at 1:43pm
This might save you some $$, but you would have to subdue that jones for a few days...
http://www.amazon.com/Sunset-Boulevard-1993-Original-London/dp/B000001E3D/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1205343702&sr=1-1
#13re: Sunset Boulevard London Cast Recording
Posted: 3/12/08 at 3:46pmI love LuPone's version of "As If We Never Said Goodbye"! I listen to it on my MP3 all the time. I just ordered it from the library and burnt it.
#14re: Sunset Boulevard London Cast Recording
Posted: 3/12/08 at 3:58pm
I prefer Glen Close's version.
I saw Balgord when the tour started in Denver. She was awful. Ms. Balgord may be a good performer otherwise, but I was so disappointed with her performance. And since the tour opened in Denver, I waited until later in the run to let the cast settle a bit. The show itself was very good. She was just awful. IMO
#15re: Sunset Boulevard London Cast Recording
Posted: 3/12/08 at 5:51pmBetty was perfection as Norma. Too bad she only released a few songs from the show sold at the theatre and didn't get a full cast recording. But the London cast recording is my favorite recording of the show.
#16re: Sunset Boulevard London Cast Recording
Posted: 3/12/08 at 6:05pm
My preference is the Glenn Close recording, but for its completeness than for Close.
As for Balgord...while she definitely has her fans, I'm just not one of them. I have her Sunset single CD, saw her in Cats and The Pirate Queen, and in all cases she sounds like a shreaking cat -- but the cat is capable of producing more vowel sounds that just "AH" and "EEEEH."
From what little I've heard, my favorite Norma is Australia's Debbie Byrne. She has the pathos and vocal acting chops of Glenn Close, but is simply a better singer.
morosco
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/10/04
#17re: Sunset Boulevard London Cast Recording
Posted: 3/12/08 at 6:14pm
From what little I've heard, my favorite Norma is Australia's Debbie Byrne. She has the pathos and vocal acting chops of Glenn Close, but is simply a better singer.
Amen to that! She was my favorite Norma. Simply stunning in the role. WATCH!
Debra Byrne / Hugh Jackman SUNSET BOULEVARD
#18re: Sunset Boulevard London Cast Recording
Posted: 3/12/08 at 6:19pm
Debra was a train wreck!
Maria Mercedes who took over the role on the nights Debra refused to go on ( which was nearly every night ) was Brillant, acting wise flawless, sung the hell out of the score and was the perfect Norma. If the producers had cast Maria from the start the show would have run longer.
Let me say it it again Debra was Train Wreck
#19re: Sunset Boulevard London Cast Recording
Posted: 3/12/08 at 6:19pm
double post
#20re: Sunset Boulevard London Cast Recording
Posted: 3/12/08 at 7:45pmWow, Hughie looks so young! But the segment on "Gloria Swanson: Sunset Boulevard the musical" is a revelation. Miss Swanson can actually sing! And to think....I almost saw Gloria Swanson in person in 1983, when she was scheduled to make a presentation at the University of Texas at Austin (I was a student there.) But alas, she passed away before her scheduled show. from RC in Austin, Texas
sally1112
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/13/04
#21re: Sunset Boulevard London Cast Recording
Posted: 3/12/08 at 8:14pmThis is some of Miss LuPone's finest work. When she comes in on "The Lady's Paying," with "I'm sick to death of that same old filling station jacket..." I just go crazy. She is perfection.
#22re: Sunset Boulevard London Cast Recording
Posted: 3/12/08 at 8:20pmThe score is horrific. But LuPone makes it listenable.
Flaunt It
Broadway Star Joined: 10/26/05
#23re: Sunset Boulevard London Cast Recording
Posted: 3/12/08 at 8:23pm
"Sadly, no one ever mentions Linda Balgord's Norma. Both Linda and LuPone are the only ones to ever sing Norma in the original key."
Oddly both Patti and Linda's shows were retooled and the the stars replaced.. Patti replaced by Betty and Linda replaced by Petula.
Updated On: 3/12/08 at 08:23 PM
#24re: Sunset Boulevard London Cast Recording
Posted: 3/12/08 at 10:47pm
No one has any love for Diahann Carroll? LOL!
I'm most partial to the Close version though. It's the one that I loved playing over and over again when I was in High School. Favorite musical at the time.
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