Patti LuPone Sunset Boulevard Final Scene Norma Desmond Blvd
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 27 ก.ย. 2024
- Sunset's final scene at Sydmonton. I recently read an opinion that part of the reason Patti's Norma didn't work is that she didn't seem like she would have been a silent film star, but I can't see that. I'm not at all knocking Glenn or trying to turn this into a debate (so don't get your dander up, Ce-Glenn), but Patti's eyes are so big and expressive. I can absolutely see that face on a silent movie star.
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She smashed it on stage.
Her diction was perfect. The bomb.
Got to see this production twice in London!❤
I'm a Patti Lupone stan but she's a baby here. I feel like if she aged 20 years, it'd work. And her later vocal strength as she advanced through Broadway fits better older too. I'm so glad she went to Sondheim though. She just kills it in those songs like no one can.
Too bad she’s a bitter narcissist now she’d never do it cos she got fired from this show over 30 years ago
The show that moved to Broadway was just better, unfortunately... Patti couldn't help it. I mean... that awful ending. She's a great "starer" but reprising With One Look works so much better... Thankfully she got to do that on the later stages of her run.
I was reading some of the reviews lately and several of them said exactly that - that Patti was straddled with a show that wasn't as good as the one that eventually made it to Broadway, after all the changes were made. I wonder how things might have been different if Patti had gone to Broadway.
@@JoannesVodkaStinger She even mentions that in an interview with Seth. The problems of the show could've been fixed if ALV wasn't so obsessed in doing a masterpiece (which Sunset is not, I mean, it is a strong play, but it's still... so much unnecessary stuff.)
And if he didn't immediately shift the blame onto Patti. He used her like a lab rat.
The original and best
I love Patti LuPone, but her interpretation of Norma Desmond in the Final Staircase scene is reserved. Norma Desmond has had a mental breakdown but you almost feel that with the right psychiatric help and drug therapy, she might be able to return to sanity. But give me Glenn Close's interpretation in which she plays a Norma Desmond that has dived off the deep end into the deep end of total madness. You feel that her Norma will have to remain in a psychiatric hospital for the rest of her life. Betty Buckley also plays the Staircase scene very much in the style of Close, but Close has knocked the character out of the park. I hope that in the near future, Sunset Boulevard the movie musical with Glenn Close will finally be completed and playing to theater audiences, especially get it done before Glenn Close totally ages out of the role.
Close is already way aged out of the role. Norma is only suppose to be 50 years old, Close is 75. Not even with drugs, hard liquor and a fist full of dollars would Joe sleep with that hag.
I think that's a fair critique of this performance. That said, she always performed this scene *much* better on the West End - there's an eerie quality that she has that I think Glenn Close doesn't quite equal (though Close's intensity more than makes up for it). My guess is that there was different direction given between the productions, since this was the "trial" production that basically served as a workshop with an orchestra.
I love the insane wide eyes but Close did that effortless and best.
She looks so beautiful here. Norma Just killed a man here but I actually would hug her (and I guess that Is the problem with Patti's Norma...She got a very sweet face)
So many of us want to protect Norma. Joe Gillis was a fool.
What Patti lacked was not being able to channel Norma Desmond madness as if she was the Frankenstein Bride. This picture was to be a horror picture but shocked all as it developed into a menopause reality of a woman gone mad from age. Patti Lupone did not have the magick !! Glen Close did as did Betty Buckley. Sadly, Andrew Lylod Weber handle the firing in an undignified action of being a coward and not sitting down with Patti Lupone. I understand he has and had many shortcomings with male musical theatre actors as well.
I just saw Diahann Carroll’s final Norma Desmond scene.
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Lupone seems like she’s performing for the camera here. She does look like she could have been a silent picture star. But, she looks and feels 20 years too young for Norma.
Check out Diahann Carroll. She’s BRILLIANT!
This is a very weak finale performance. Even Patti Lupone’s singing conveyed nothing of Norma’s tragic denouement. The right decision was made to go with Glenn Close for the performance on broadway.
There’s an emotional disconnect here. She could not bring to it what Glenn Close did. She didn’t have the range.
Clarify, the acting range. Vocally Glenn Close was weak at best.
No. Great actress but she wasn't ready to act like an aged woman.
If this role had come to her in 2008 - the year she did Gypsy - we would have had the definitive Norma. But the universe unfolds as it should. If her experience hadn't happened the way it did, maybe she would never have finally immersed herself in the works of Sondheim at Ravinia and in NY? Who knows....
She didn’t have the glamor or poise of a Hollywood star. This was disastrous miscasting. She’s a blowsy Italian earth mother.
One in a million!
Interesting how she criticizes everyone. Worst Norma Desmond ever!
This appears to be the workshop production. No one was better than Patti!
very young
This was not the official version. This is from Lloyd Webber’s symondton festival at his house, where he starts all of his musicals