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"Sunset Boulevard" Write-Up, Part 2
Apr. 18th, 2016 11:03 pmRight, I will approach this in much the same manner as the previous one by going through the score song by song.
Before that, though, there's something I forgot to mention in the first post - it's more of a general observation anyway so it doesn't really fit any specific scene...
Basically, the whole show was imbued with additional irony by the sheer fact that it was Glenn Close starring as Norma Desmond - not least because she last played the role on Broadway 20 years ago. All of the references to Norma's "return" to Hollywood and her status as a big name at the time were doubly relevant. In particular, this exchange:-
JOE: Norma, they don't want you in every scene.
NORMA: Of course they do - what else would they have come for?
Given that (I assume) quite a lot of the audience were only there to see Glenn Close, or specifically to see her in this show, that part was especially ironic, and there was definitely a murmur of amused acknowledgement from the audience.
Anyway, without further ado, here is the rest of the write-up - hopefully this one will not take me seven hours like the last one did...
( Act Two )
Well, this one did not take quite as long as the last one, but I still have no idea where any of it came from.
My next task is to start a complete overhaul of "Tango Up On Sunset" to try and include all of these new feels and theories. I am looking forward to that, in a vaguely masochistic kind of way...
Before that, though, there's something I forgot to mention in the first post - it's more of a general observation anyway so it doesn't really fit any specific scene...
Basically, the whole show was imbued with additional irony by the sheer fact that it was Glenn Close starring as Norma Desmond - not least because she last played the role on Broadway 20 years ago. All of the references to Norma's "return" to Hollywood and her status as a big name at the time were doubly relevant. In particular, this exchange:-
JOE: Norma, they don't want you in every scene.
NORMA: Of course they do - what else would they have come for?
Given that (I assume) quite a lot of the audience were only there to see Glenn Close, or specifically to see her in this show, that part was especially ironic, and there was definitely a murmur of amused acknowledgement from the audience.
Anyway, without further ado, here is the rest of the write-up - hopefully this one will not take me seven hours like the last one did...
( Act Two )
Well, this one did not take quite as long as the last one, but I still have no idea where any of it came from.
My next task is to start a complete overhaul of "Tango Up On Sunset" to try and include all of these new feels and theories. I am looking forward to that, in a vaguely masochistic kind of way...
