Glenn Close to Reprise Starring Role in ‘Sunset Boulevard’ on West End

Close will play Norma Desmond for 43 performances at the English National Opera’s Coliseum theater starting April 1.

The musical, based on Billy Wilder’s 1950 film by the same name, follows the relationship between a dejected screenwriter and a lonely actress (Close) hoping to make a comeback.

And now she’s back, and accompanied by none other than Andrew Lloyd Webber.

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.

Lloyd Webber said he was “thrilled” that audiences would get to see Close playing Norma Desmond, a role she previously played on Broadway.

Getty Glenn Close is a legend in Broadway The ENO’s chief executive officer, Cressida Pollock, stated: “We at English National Opera consider in that the mixture of multiple award-winning Glenn Close, making her West Finish stage debut, & Andrew Lloyd Webber’s hit musical Sundown Boulevard, will once more pack the London Coliseum with ENO regulars & new audiences for us”.

Tickets will range from £12 – 100 of these will be available for each performance – to £105. Johnny Hon will be executive producer. Faye Dunaway, who was to replace Close in the L.A. production, was also dismissed before she began performances, and the production closed there. Her return to “Sunset Boulevard” will mark her West End debut, though she has performed on stage in London before, including a National Theatre production of “A Streetcar Named Desire” in 2002.

The Fatal Attraction star went on to win one of the seven Tony Awards the show received in 1995. He was knighted by Her Majesty The Queen in 1992 and created an honorary member of the House of Lords in 1997.