'Sunset' Rises For Christmas CONFIRMED — Page 2

Is that the art work?
I didn't actually see what they used in Newbury!

£52.50
They don't seem to have reduced prices for previews as yet???

We now have a website people! Things are exciting in the West End again!

Sunsety Boulevard - Official Site! YAY!

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Mama, you said that it was a limited run of only three months, I can't see that anywhere in advertisments etc. is this definitely the case?

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let's hope it lasts to (maybe past...) April. Looks like a brilliant production

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they use the F word once in the original version.

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I'll take the risk, ask her to take me and if there is the F in it, I can plea ignorant that I did not know :P
She sat through Bombay Dreams with me, and if I remember correctly that had an F or two...she also sat through Les Miz many a moon ago...
Thanks guys x

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Previews are now reduced - £20 off the top bands and £10 from the others. I've just had a refund back to the credit card

Bring in the old, bring in the new!!!!!!!!

Sunset Boulevard finally opened last night, I hope to see the show which I adore and know every word of the script, seeing this show will also give me a definitive opinion on actors/musicians!

Look forward to catching the show in the next few weeks?

And hope many of you will too?

Have any of them seen it?

I did - and can testify to the fact that the cast (possibly with one exception) can cope with their acting, vocal, movement and instrumental chores thus demonstrating considerable talent.

And Tomm Coles, as Artie Green, can crack walnuts with his thighs as well.

The Watermill production was amazing! And it wasn't done as the actor/musician thing as some sort of gimmick per se, but because it was the only way to produce it there at all. It is simply too tiny for anything else. And while it is only that tiny 200+ seat venue, it is also a lovely, intimate and atmospheric space with overhanging wooden balconies with ballustrades which make it seem quite medieval. It is gorgeous, and "Sunset" was a delight there. It was designed for that space, worked fantastically well, and absolutely deserved the rave reviews it got. But it may seem a different animal in the much larger 800+ seat Comedy. I won't be able to go to see the transfer myself for a few weeks, but I am just hoping it transfers well. It deserved to get a wider audience.

But in spite of the amazing Watermill "Sunset" reviews, there are still some who prefer to ignore them and who prefer to insist that everything to do with it must really have been, and will continue to be, dreadful. This is not people who have actually seen it, of course, these are just the ones who would rather cling to prejudice and presumption. And the "negative" reviews on the Talkin' Broadway board were of that order. I went to look and there was one person who apparently went to see the very first preview last night and left after half an hour??? The other "negatives" were from those who just fancied jumping on the band wagon to condemn it out of hand, because they just don't like the concept or love to hate anything Andrew Lloyd Webber for the sake of it. Is that fair, reasonable or intelligent? Errr...NO! It is rubbish thinking. There was similar here as well (again, not from anyone who had actually seen it). But intelligent people should recognise such rubbish thinking for what it is, you certainly shouldn't let yourself be influenced by it. Whatever preconceptions there are re the actor/musician thing in general, as may or may not be based on other productions, it DID work fantastically for "Sunset" at the Watermill as the reviews confirmed. So condemnation sight unseen is really inappropriate. Whether it will still work at the Comedy is another issue, but the proof of the pudding is going to have to be in the eating. And it will have to wait on what happens in practice. The second preview won't even have started yet. But proper reviews, by people who think that they should actually at least have seen something before being judgemental, will be through soon enough, with official reviews following. It might only be in respect of the first preview, but a few have appeared on Dress Circle already. And those are very good. Haven't seen anything from anyone who saw it at the Watermill as well yet, but it won't be long.

The Comedy has some of the worse sight lines in London. That balcony is very, very high even in a smallish theatre. The front row is regarded as restricted view.
Up to you.

Dave why not log on to theatremonkey.com -its a fab site that rates each and every seat for every show!

Updated On: 12/7/08 at 11:28 AM

Im going again tomorrow night! 'Imagine This' i mean!