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| re: JAMIE LLOYD WILL DIRECT A NEW PRODUCTION OF ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER’S “SUNSET BOULEVARD” IN LONDON | |
| Last Edit: Delvino 10:32 am EDT 05/19/23 | |
| Posted by: Delvino 10:27 am EDT 05/19/23 | |
| In reply to: JAMIE LLOYD WILL DIRECT A NEW PRODUCTION OF ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER’S “SUNSET BOULEVARD” IN LONDON - Official_Press_Release 09:37 am EDT 05/19/23 | |
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| Lloyd is the creative that makes this compelling. The star, a 44-year-old who reads at least a half a decade younger, seems an ... unusual choice. A role defined by the trauma of ageing in a misogynistic industry will be played by a woman visibly in her prime. Characterized in the text as a contemporary iteration of Miss Havisham, re-imagined as a luminous beauty, crippled by her own agoraphobia? Maybe it's what will make this "bold." The show has always worked best spotlighting a female actor well past the ingenue demographic who brings her A-game to the character, the vocals in service of the interpretation rather than the reverse (the infamous, forever unsettled debate about very first 2 Normas, not necessary to revisit). This star is a formidable singer, not necessarily known for acting chops. Again, if Lloyd has a new vision, he's a gifted, imagery-specific theater storyteller, and perhaps that's the event here. | |
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| The problem remains... | |
| Posted by: peter3053 10:25 pm EDT 05/19/23 | |
| In reply to: re: JAMIE LLOYD WILL DIRECT A NEW PRODUCTION OF ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER’S “SUNSET BOULEVARD” IN LONDON - Delvino 10:27 am EDT 05/19/23 | |
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| ...that too many of the songs are stage-waits, adding nothing that the movie dialogue doesn't already establish and faster. There's a big difference between a long song, say, from something like Carousel that goes "My Boy Bill will be tall and as tough as a tree.... What if she's a girl? ... I'll go out and make it or steal it or take it or die!" and one that goes "With One Look...With One Look...With One Look...." or "Sunset Boulevard...Sunset Boulevard...Sunset Boulevard...". Remember when Hammerstein advised Sondheim to take something that was good and make it better through music? And, by extension, discern when something can't be bettered that way. Sunset Boulevard the movie is tight as a drum. The songs of the musical don't progress character or situation, with the possible exception of "Too Much In Love" sung by Joe and the girl near the end. |
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