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Sunset Boulevard – UK & Ireland Tour

MICHAEL HARRISON & DAVID IAN

PRESENT

THE UK AND IRELAND TOUR OF THE

CURVE PRODUCTION OF

ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER’S

 

 

SUNSET BOULEVARD

STARRING RIA JONES AS NORMA DESMOND

AND DIRECTED BY NIKOLAI FOSTER

OPENING AT CURVE

ON SATURDAY 16 SEPTEMBER 2017

Michael Harrison and David Ian are delighted to present the UK and Ireland tour of the Curve production of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s award-winning musical SUNSET BOULEVARD. Starring Ria Jones as Norma Desmond and directed by Nikolai Foster, SUNSET BOULEVARD will open at Curve on Saturday 16 September 2017 before touring the UK and Ireland. Tour schedule below with more dates to be announced soon.

 

sunsetboulevardtour.com

One of the all-time great musicals, Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Tony Award®-winning (Best Musical, Best Original Score and Best Book of a Musical) masterpiece SUNSET BOULEVARD is a compelling story of romance and obsession, based on Billy Wilder’s legendary film, with Don Black and Christopher Hampton’s wonderful book and lyrics. This much-loved score includes the title number Sunset Boulevard, With One Look, As If We Never Said Goodbye, The Greatest Star Of All and The Perfect Year and will be performed by a full orchestra.
In her mansion on Sunset Boulevard, faded, silent-screen goddess, Norma Desmond, lives in a fantasy world. Impoverished screen writer, Joe Gillis, on the run from debt collectors, stumbles into her reclusive world. Persuaded to work on Norma’s ‘masterpiece’, a film script that she believes will put her back in front of the cameras, he is seduced by her and her luxurious life-style.  Joe becomes entrapped in a claustrophobic world until his love for another woman leads him to try and break free with dramatic consequences.
Last year, Ria Jones played the role of Norma Desmond at the London Coliseum when Glenn Close was indisposed, receiving rave reviews and standing ovations for her performance. Ria has recently starred as Dorothy Brock in 42nd Street at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris. Her West End credits include Fantine in Les Misérables, Grizabella in Cats and Florence in Chess. Her touring credits include Alex in The Witches of Eastwick, Mrs Overall in Acorn Antiques – The Musical, Reno Sweeney in Anything Goes and The Narrator in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.
Director Nikolai Foster is Artistic Director at Curve, one of the UK’s leading regional theatres. His work at Curve includes Jonathan Harvey’s Beautiful Thing and Truman Capote’s Breakfast at Tiffany’s, both on tour and in the West End; A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams and the musicals Grease and Legally Blonde. He directed the hugely successful recent productions of Annie starring Craig Revel Horwood and Calamity Jane starring Jodie Prenger

SUNSET BOULEVARD UK AND IRELAND TOUR 2017/18

 

 

SATURDAY 16 SEPTEMBER – SATURDAY 30 SEPTEMBER

CURVE, LEICESTER 

www.curveonline.co.uk

ON SALE NOW

 

TUESDAY 3 OCTOBER – SATURDAY 7 OCTOBER

EDINBURGH PLAYHOUSE

www.atgtickets.com/edinburgh

ON SALE 21 FEBRUARY

 

MONDAY 9 OCTOBER – SATURDAY 14 OCTOBER

NEWCASTLE THEATRE ROYAL

www.theatreroyal.co.uk

ON SALE 17 MARCH

 

MONDAY 23 OCTOBER – SATURDAY 4 NOVEMBER

MANCHESTER PALACE

www.atgtickets.com/manchester

ON SALE 21 FEBRUARY

 

MONDAY 6 NOVEMBER – SATURDAY 11 NOVEMBER

HIS MAJESTY’S THEATRE, ABERDEEN

www.aberdeenperformingarts.com/venues/his-majestys-theatre

ON SALE 10 FEBRUARY

 

MONDAY 13 NOVEMBER – SATURDAY 18 NOVEMBER

BIRMINGHAM HIPPODROME

www.birminghamhippodrome.com

ON SALE 6 FEBRUARY

 

MONDAY 20 NOVEMBER – SATURDAY 25 NOVEMBER

BORD GAIS ENERGY THEATRE, DUBLIN

www.bordgaisenergytheatre.ie

ON SALE SOON

 

TUESDAY 28 NOVEMBER – SATURDAY 2 DECEMBER

MILTON KEYNES

www.atgtickets.com/miltonkeynes

ON SALE SOON

 

2018

TUESDAY 9 JANUARY – SATURDAY 13 JANUARY

BRISTOL HIPPODROME

www.atgtickets.com/bristol

ON SALE 21 FEBRUARY

 

TUESDAY 16 JANUARY – SATURDAY 20 JANUARY

SOUTHAMPTON MAYFLOWER THEATRE

www.mayflower.org.uk

ON SALE 20 FEBRUARY

 

MONDAY 22 – SATURDAY 27 JANUARY

NEW VICTORIA THEATRE, WOKING

www.atgtickets.com/woking

ON SALE 21 FEBRUARY

 

MONDAY 29 JANUARY – SATURDAY 3 FEBRUARY

CLIFFS PAVILION, SOUTHEND

www.southendtheatres.org.uk

ON SALE SOON

 

MONDAY 5 – SATURDAY 10 FEBRUARY

THE ALHAMBRA THEATRE, BRADFORD

www.bradford-theatres.co.uk

ON SALE SOON

 

FURTHER CITIES TO BE ANNOUNCED

 


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