Sunset Boulevard
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Dec 7, 2010
Closed Feb 13, 2011
Opened Dec 7, 2010
Closed Feb 13, 2011
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Based on the 1950s film noir directed by Billy Wilder, with book and lyrics by Don Black and Christopher Hampton, Andrew Lloyd Webber's Sunset Boulevard is one of the greatest Hollywood tales ever told on the musical stage. Silent film star Norma Desmond's infamous line "All right, Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up" is the stuff of Hollywood legend. In the glamorous film world of Los Angeles where youth and beauty were all, what happens when the lights dim and the audiences disappear? With such stunning songs as "With One Look," "As If We Never Said Goodbye" and "Perfect Year," Andrew Lloyd Webber's Sunset Boulevard is a lush romantic tragedy of Hollywood proportions.
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Signature Theatre has a fabulous holiday gift for the Washington area: a lushly staged and vibrantly performed production of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Sunset Boulevard, the musical version of Billy Wilder's 1950 classic film. In director Eric Schaeffer's hands, the piece becomes a journey of dramatic twists and turns, shrouded in moody mists and lush orchestrations and leading to a thoroughly chilling destination.
It's a challenging musical to stage, since Lloyd Webber's score is romantic but often repetitious, and some of the lyrics from Don Black and Christopher Hampton veer dangerously close to parody. But Schaeffer mostly avoids melodrama and caricature, instead focusing on solid stor[...]