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Sunset Boulevard: Het Nederlandse Cast Album

Sunset Boulevard

Shows · Sunset Boulevard

Sunset Boulevard is a musical with music by Andrew Lloyd Webber, and lyrics and libretto by Don Black and Christopher Hampton, based on the 1950 film. The plot follows Norma Desmond, a faded star of the silent-screen era, living in her decaying mansion on Sunset Boulevard in 1949 Los Angeles.

Opened
1994
Performances
977
Type
Musical
Era
Megamusical
Music: Andrew Lloyd WebberLyrics: Don Black & Christopher Hampton; Based on the Billy Wilder film

Won the Tony Award for Best Musical, 1995.

Productions4 on Broadway

1994 Minskoff Theatre Original. November 17, 1994 · Trevor Nunn Musical Staging: Bob Avian 977 performances · 1 Tony wins
2008 Transfer Theatre unknown. December 4, 2008
2017 Palace Theatre Revival. February 9, 2017 · Lonny Price 138 performances
2024 St. James Theatre Revival. October 20, 2024 · Jamie Lloyd 312 performances · 1 Tony wins

Every Broadway staging held in broadway-data, sourced to IBDB. West End runs are not yet held.

Recordings 10 albums held

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Sunset Boulevard: World Premiere Recording Really Useful Records 519 767-2. 1993
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Sunset Boulevard: World Premiere Recording Really Useful Records 314 519 767-2. 1994
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Sunset Boulevard: American Premiere Recording: A Selection of Songs from the Musical Polydor 42285 3851 2; Really Useful Records. 1994
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Sunset Boulevard: American Premiere Recording Really Useful Records 3507-2 IND1; Really Useful Records 3507-2…. September 13, 1994
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Sunset Boulevard: World Premiere Recording (1993 original London cast) Really Useful Records 519 767-2. December 1, 1994
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Highlights from Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Sunset Boulevard: American Premiere Recording Highlights Polydor 527241-2; Decca Broadway. May 23, 1995
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Sunset Boulevard (1995 Niedernhausen cast) Polydor 531178. March 21, 1996
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Sunset Boulevard (2004 concert cast) May 1, 2004
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Sunset Boulevard: American Premiere Recording Decca Records 000663802. May 23, 2006
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Sunset Boulevard: Het Nederlandse Cast Album Really Useful Records 178563-8. 2009

Licensing 1 entry

US Concord Theatricals ALW Collection available

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57 passages naming Sunset Boulevard, found by keyword across 178 books. It's where this show turns up in the literature, not curated trivia about it.

Andrew Lloyd Webber (Evita, Cats, Phantom of the Opera, Sunset Boulevard) and Tim Rice were introduced to Broadway with this show. book:at-this-theatre-100-years-of-broadway-shows-stories-and-botto-louis-viagas-rober#p314

Sunset Boulevard ran for 977 performances—still the house record at this writing. book:at-this-theatre-100-years-of-broadway-shows-stories-and-botto-louis-viagas-rober#p351

failure at the Minskoff. Another London transfer by ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER, Sunset Boulevard (11/17/94; 977 performances), opened with Glenn Close, George Hearn, and Alan Campbell in the leads. book:broadway-its-history-people-and-places-an-encyclopedia-bloom-ken-1949-2nd-ed-new#p377

He finally found another juicy musical role as Max, the all-too-dutiful manservant of Glenn Close’s Norma Desmond in Sunset Boulevard, winning a second Tony in the process. book:broadway-musicals-the-101-greatest-shows-of-all-time-bloom-ken-1949-vlastnik-fra#p185

Sunset Boulevard played in los Angeles for a year before moving to Broadway. book:broadway-musicals-the-101-greatest-shows-of-all-time-bloom-ken-1949-vlastnik-fra#p230

Sunset Boulevard, failed to repay their investors. book:broadway-musicals-the-101-greatest-shows-of-all-time-bloom-ken-1949-vlastnik-fra#p270

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