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"Sunset Boulevard" is about a former screen star's descent into madness. So it seems appropriate, said Matt Wolf in The New York Times, that this "bravura new West End revival" of Andrew Lloyd ...
Nicole Scherzinger has received almost universal acclaim in her portrayal of faded film star Norma Desmond in Lloyd’s new adaptation of Sunset Boulevard. This is celebrity casting for sure ...
Hot on the heels of recent productions on Broadway and at the National Theatre, the visionary director is back in the West End with a stupendous reimagining of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s modern classic ...
Drenched in champagne and cynicism, Sunset Boulevard focuses the lens on the ambitions and frustrations of its characters and puts their intoxicating need for fame and adoration in stark close-up.
The art deco glamour of the Savoy Theatre makes it the perfect setting. I’d say you should kill for a ticket, but Lloyd has ensured prices start at £21. Lloyd Webber and co-writers Don Black ...
Jamie Lloyd is not a director who treats the classics deferentially. Rather he strips them down, roughs them up and, if all is going to plan, polishes them to a new and dazzling sheen. The results ...
Francis has huge charisma and a cracking voice. “Sunset Boulevard” remains a standout track in the show and Francis really brings the lyrics to life. Grace Hodgett Young also makes a striking ...
and out of the theatre on to the Strand, among startled pedestrians and posters for the show, emblazoned with Scherzinger’s famous face. It is dizzyingly meta – an exhilarating blurring of the ...
"Sunset Boulevard" is about a former screen ... "The pictures may have got small, but theatre has rarely felt so alive with possibility." I loved the energy of the ensemble and the lushness ...
"Sunset Boulevard" is about a former screen ... sense of reinvention", which means few will "walk out indifferent". Savoy Theatre, London WC2; thesavoytheatre.com. Until 6 January 2024.