Los Angeles Theater Review: SUNSET BOULEVARD (Musical Theatre West in Long Beach)
MISGUIDED MELODRAMA Billy Wilder's 1950 film masterpiece Sunset Boulevard starred Gloria Swanson as the washed-up-actress-turned-cougar Norma Desmond, and William Holden as her prematurely-jaded-Hollywood-writer-turned-boy-toy Joe Gillis. Using the camera as an instrument to capture performances of discomforting intensity, it wove a psychologically intricate tale of seduction, jealousy and betrayal set, of course…
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