Sunset Boulevard Tickets

Back in September 2015, we took a look at Musical Revivals and Missed Opportunities. With a new year and new shows announced, it's time to revisit Musical Revivals, Missed Opportunities & Broadway Transfers (Part 2)!

Sunset Boulevard, by Andrew Lloyd-Webber, has just opened at the London Coliseum, starring the stunning Glenn Close, for a very limited run of five weeks. It is a show to rival anything currently playing in London – so, if any of the adjectives in this review are anything less than emphatic, mentally change them for something better. Suffice to say, it was an incredible show.

I’ve never really cared for Sunset Boulevard if I’m being totally honest with you. When I was much younger and was first discovering musicals, I came across “With One Look” and “As If We Never Said Goodbye” and my love affair with the show started and ended there; other than those two songs, the piece never intrigued me whatsoever. It wasn’t until it was announced last year that the show’s original Tony Award-winning Norma Desmond from the Broadway run of Sunset Boulevard in the 1990s – Glenn Close – would be reprising her role in a revival of the show at the ENO London Coliseum this month that I got excited. I knew that I needed to see the woman who sang these two songs I love perform in the show that made her a Broadway musical theatre star so I made sure I was going to be down there. I made so sure that I was going to be there in fact that I have now seen the show twice despite the fact it has only played four performances. Needless to say, I adore this revival of Sunset Boulevard.

The legendary Glenn Close wowed audiences at the London Coliseum last night, reprising the role of Norma Desmond in Andrew Lloyd Webber's Sunset Boulevard. Stunning audience members with a powerful and mesmerising performance, the Coliseum erupted into a standing ovation before Glenn Close finished her last note. With the official press night on 4th April, we've put together some of the best tweets following last night's first preview.

Glenn Close, in her West End debut, reprises her Tony-Award winning role as Norma Desmond in Sunset Boulevard at the ENO.

In addition to Glenn Close, the cast also features Michael Xavier (Joe Gillis), Siobhan Dillon (Betty Shaefer) and Fred Johanson (Max Von Mayerling), Anna Woodside (Hedda Hopper), Emily Bull (Hedy Lamarr), Julian Forsyth (Cecil B DeMille), Mark Goldthorp (Sheldrake), Fenton Gray (Manfred), Haydn Oakley (Artie Green), and James Paterson (Jonesy). The company also includes Carly Anderson, Michelle Bishop, Jacob Chapman, Nadeem Crowe, Cornelia Farnsworth, Ria Jones, Katie Kerr, Aaron Lee Lambert, Matthew McKenna, Jo Morris, Tanya Robb, Ashley Robinson, Vicki Lee Taylor, Gary Tushaw, Adam Vaughan, and Stuart Winter.

Today, 18 March 2016, London Theatre Direct announces that Mark Bower and Anne Ewart are joining London Theatre Direct in the roles of Business Development Director and Marketing Director respectively.

Rehearsals for Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Sunset Boulevard begin at the English National Opera Rehearsal Studios as the full cast is announced.

Glenn Close will star as Norma Desmond in Sunset Boulevard, the second production in the partnership between English National Opera (ENO) and the GradeLinnit Company. With music by Andrew Lloyd Webber and book and lyrics by Don Black and Christopher Hampton, Sunset Boulevard is produced by arrangement with The Really Useful Group Ltd and is based on the original Paramount film by Billy Wilder.