Sunset Boulevard (Original Canadian Cast Recording)
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Edition: Music CDFormat: Cast Recording, Import
CD Release Date: 1996-01-08
Music Label: Universal/Polygram
Soundtracks:
- Overture/I Guess It Was 5 A.M.
- Let's Have Lunch
- Car Chase
- Surrender
- With One Look
- The Greatest Star of All
- Every Movie's a Circus
- Girl Meets Boy
- New Ways to Dream
- The Lady's Paying
- The Perfect Year
- This Time Next Year
- New Year's Eve (Back at the House on Sunset)
- Sunset Boulevard
- As If We Never Said Goodbye
- Eternal Youth Is Worth a Little Suffering
- Too Much in Love to Care
- New Ways to Dream (Reprise)
- The Final Score
Free Music Notes for Sunset Boulevard (Original Canadian Cast Recording)
Free Music Review: A Gem
Hit: 5 Stars
Having seen "SB" onstage 4 times, twice with Betty Buckley in London, once with Glenn Close in NY, and once with Petula Clark in London, I certainly qualify as a fan of the show and the score. I have also heard the Patti LuPone and Diahann Carroll cast albums. I am prepared to say that Ms. Carroll and Ms. Buckley are the best Normas I have heard. Sadly, Buckley only recorded the songs on a limited issue CD. Both of those ladies steer a course between mannered overacting combined with undersinging which does not do justice to the almost operatic demands of Norma's numbers (that would be Glenn Close who sounds like a baritone one minute and an almost inaudible high soprano the next with notthing in between) and flat, underacting combined with a powerful, colorful voice which sounds like a woman of 35, not 50plus (that would be Patti LuPone).
On this release, Ms. Carroll's voice is rich and colorful, her acting grand in the old fashioned manner, but never becoming caricarture (Glenn Close). She creates a proud woman, deluded, fearful, craving love, but full of defense mechanisms. That is Norma. She creates sympathy and that is what a great interpreter does even with the most unsympathetic character. I also love the multicultural casting. Diahann has always been a black woman who is an actress, not a black actress. That is the key to her wide appeal, not to mention her beauty and elegance which come across even on record. You really believe that this Norma was once the greatest beauty and star in Hollywood.
Rex Smith is also excellent, singing smoothly and with the virility that Norma lusts after.
This is the best realization of this wonderful score. Listen with fresh ears and you will feel as I do, I am sure.
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