Sunset Boulevard
Andrew Lloyd Webber / Don Black / Christopher Hampton
Sunset Boulevard
A thrilling story following an eponymous Oscar film by the director Billy Wilder, with music by the most famous musical composer of all time, Andrew Lloyd Webber. Although the fame of Norma Desmond, an ageing actress of silent pictures, had irretrievably passed with the arrival of the sound movies, in her own memories and imaginations Norma remains the greatest star of all time.
When, under dramatic circumstances, she meets a slightly untalented young scriptwriter Joe Gillis, she falls in love with him and starts to believe that he is the one who would help her come back on the silver screen. However, in the shiny “dream factory” of Hollywood, full of false glamour and glitter, the seeming sincerity and smiles are just cover-ups for hypocrisy and ingratitude. The musical is staged on the occasion of the jubilee of Stanislava Topinková Fořtová who acts in the main role as Norma Desmond.
Creators
- Music:
- Andrew Lloyd Webber
- Libretto:
- Don Black, Christopher Hampton
- Czech text:
- Michael Prostějovský
- Directed by:
- Lumír Olšovský
- Musical arrangement:
- Kryštof Marek
- Choreography:
- Lukáš Vilt
- Conductors:
- Dalibor Bárta / Kryštof Marek
- Script Editor:
- Pavel Bár
- Stage Design:
- Lucie Loosová
- Costume:
- Andrea Pavlovičová
- Singing arrangement:
- Sára Bukovská
- Sound design:
- Tomáš Lorenc, Matouš Pilný
- Lighting design:
- David Janeček
- Assistant director:
- Martin Šefl
- Assistant Choreographer:
- Pavel Klimenda, Tereza Koželuhová
- Assistant stage design:
- Ivana Stuchlíková
- Accompanist:
- Sára Bukovská, Monika Kudrnová
- Stage manager:
- Tereza Topičová
Prersons and actors
- Norma Desmond:
- Stanislava Topinková Fořtová
- Joe Gillis:
- Pavel Režný
- Max von Mayerling:
- Pavel Klečka / Jiří Kubík
- Betty Schaefer:
- Charlotte Režná
- Artie Green:
- Lukáš Ondruš
- Cecil B. DeMille:
- Roman Krebs
- Company:
- Tereza Koželuhová, Karolína Krausová, Žofie Kučerová, Anika Menclová, Lucie Pragerová, Hana Spinethová, Eliška Suková, Kateřina Tafatová, Alexandra Vostrejžová, Venuše Zaoralová Dvořáková, Martin Davídek, Radim Flender, Martin Holec, Jozef Hruškoci, Pavel Klimenda, Václav Kolář, Dušan Kraus, Jakub Gabriel Rajnoch / Rastislav Širila, Adam Rezner, Martin Šefl, Adam Škandera, Jiří Šup, Tomáš Zbranek
- Orchestr muzikálu DJKT
Photos from the production
Photo author: Martina Root
Licensed from The Really Useful Group Ltd.
- Please note that strobe effects and tobacco products are used in the production.
- The length of the production is given including 1 intermission.
