The rumors were true and Glenn Close will reprise her Tony-winning role of Norma Desmond in Sunset Boulevard for a limited engagement at the English National Opera.
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Glenn Close will star as Norma Desmond in a semi-staged production of Sunset Boulevard at the Coliseum in London. A partnership between the English National Opera (ENO) & the GradeLinnit Company, with music by Webber, the stage production can be based mostly on the unique film by Billy Wilder.
Close has previously appeared on the London stage in Trevor Nunn’s National Theatre production of A Streetcar Named Desire.
Sunset Boulevard is presented by ENO with Michael Linnit and Michael Grade for Gate Ventures.
The show, directed by Lonny Price, will be the second co-production between ENO and the GradeLinnit Company, following a sell-out production of Sweeney Todd starring Emma Thompson and Bryn Terfel.
The Cruella d’Evil actress will join the ENO after their hugely successful production of Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd earlier this year. The six-time Oscar nominee got her start on the Great White Way, and won the Tony for her roles in Sunset Boulevard, The Real Thing and Death and the Maiden.
Glenn Close’sNorma Desmond is back. Close won Emmy Awards for her performances in Serving in Silence: The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story and the TV series Damages, which earned her a Golden Globe Award as well.
The show opened in London in 1993 with Lloyd Webber favorite Patti LuPone playing Norma Desmond, the delusional forgotten silent-screen star who lures a willing young writer to become her lover and the architect of her comeback.
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Close herself took on Lloyd Webber when the Broadway company reported to Variety that the show’s grosses had remained steady during her two-week vacation.
