Will Sunset Boulevard tour?

As much as I would love it to tour, I doubt that it will.

I feel like this is a show that regional and community theatres have been afraid of for some reason. I rarely, if ever, hear about any productions of this, which is a shame. So I would certainly love to see it tour. I'd rather see a fine B'way actress than a movie/tv star for the tour though. As good as Glenn's acting is (and she does have B'way cred), I just never cared for her singing (and I saw it on opening night in 95). What's Donna Murphy doing? Does Jan Maxwell have the voice to pull it off? I'd love to hear Bernadette tackle the big numbers, but I doubt she'd tour. What about Sunset alumni Alice Ripley? Who else could do it?

the end of jumanji: NOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!

scampsweep said: "I believe that Bernadette Peters was considered as Norma as a replacement to Betty Buckley back in the nineties. I’m sure I remember reading that. I think Bernadette had certain conditions, including the fact she wanted ‘input’ in relation to who her understudy would be. Negotiations obviously eventually fell through and Elaine Paige transferred instead. I’m fairly certain that Bernadette was approached though."

Yes, she was approached by ALW back in 1996, along with a long list of other 'big names'. I had heard the reason she didn't take the offer was because she had heard (from one of the other actresses) how physically draining it was to play the role, running up and down the stairs multiple times for each performance.

Word around town this time last year was that it was supposed to tour. For whatever that's worth.

trpguyy said: "Word around town this time last year was that it was supposed to tour. For whatever that's worth."

This time last year - on Opening Night - they had announced the 4 week extension, sold over half a million dollars in tickets the next day and were flirting with extending the limited engagement to a longer run with another actress... So I think some of that might have been opening night euphoria.

I was hopeful that the UK tour (which looks cool from the pictures I've seen) might get a second go in the US. Donna Murphy had done a workshop of a potential Sunset revival about 4 years ago - which I heard had the creative team make some changes to the show which ALW didn't go for, so it never went anywhere (would LOVE to see what those changes were). But I would love to see Donna in this role. She has such a uniquely beautiful voice and is a tremendous actress (her Fosca from Passion still haunts me)

As huge a fan as I am of this, I'm doubtful. I think ALW and Glenn are full speed ahead on seeing this get filmed. So that probably would happen before a US Tour.

You're all correct though. It's really disappointing that it's not been mounted more often. Not sure if the rights are readily available or what - but I look every year to see if Paper Mill Playhouse would ever take a stab at it.

"were flirting with extending the limited engagement to a longer run with another actress"

Were there were rumors to who that other actress was?

Lot666 said: "chernjam said: "I think ALW and Glenn are full speed ahead on seeing this get filmed."

Really? I haven't heard much on that front. I hope you're right, but is there some recent article or interview out there that you're basing this on?"

I haven't heard or seen anything new since late summer (maybe it was Playbill) that said they were aiming at pre-production this year or something. Was wondering if the one night thing that ALW and Glenn are doing together in NYC for his 70th b-day/book release if they might share some news