The run closed March 22, 1997
- Opened
- November 17, 1994
- Closed
- March 22, 1997
- Performances
- 977
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Minskoff Theatre
Of the 368 productions we hold that opened in the 1990s and record a performance count, this is the 16th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Other stagings of Sunset Boulevard 3 more that season
| 2008 | Transfer Transfer | |
| 2017 | Palace Theatre Revival · Lonny Price | 138 perf. |
| 2024 | St. James Theatre Revival · Jamie Lloyd | 312 perf. |
Who was in it45 named
Bryan Batt
Susan Dawn Carson
Matthew Dickens
Colleen Dunn
David Eric
Rich Hebert
Kim Huber
Sal Mistretta
Mark Morales
Rick Podell
Rick Sparks
John Barrowman
Kristen Behrendt
Jane Bodle
Stephen Breithaupt
Alisa Endsley
Andrew Giordano
Danielle Lee Greaves
John Hoshko
Bruce Alan Johnson
George Kmeck
Jordan Leeds
Rod Loomis
Lisa Mandel
Dan O Grady
Gayle Samuels
Angie L Schworer
Timothy Shew
Larry Small
Jillana Urbina
Jennifer West
14 of these 45 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 31 are set from the identifier in the cast list, which is a slug of the name — so hyphens and full stops are lost and a few come out wrong. We hold nothing else about them. Nobody here is matched to a character: the cast list records who was in the company and not what they played.
Characters6 roles recorded
Linda Balgord Norma Desmond
Ron Bohmer Joe Gillis
Ed Dixon Max von Mayerling
Alice Ripley Betty Schaefer
James Clow Artie Green
William Chapman Cecil B. DeMille
Only 512 of 13,459 productions carry role names, and these came out of a wiki table — the names arrived with the table's own cell markup on them and have been stripped back. They are not linked to person records because the identifiers in that table do not resolve to ours.
Creative team
- Choreographer
- Bob Avian
- Producer
- The Really Useful Company
A producer is one string on this record, however many people or companies it names. Directors and choreographers are held both as text and as identifiers; where an identifier exists the name links to a page.
Tony Awards 1 from 1 nomination
| Best Musical | Won |
Around this production
A revamped Sunset Boulevard opened in December 1993 at Los Angeles’ Shubert Theatre, with Glenn Close as Norma, Alan Campbell as Joe, and George Hearn as Max. It received mixed reviews. Broadway Its History People and Places An Encyclopedia Bloom Ken 1949 2nd Ed New, p. 574
- Andrew Lloyd Webber (Evita, Cats, Phantom of the Opera, Sunset Boulevard) and Tim Rice were introduced to Broadway with this show. At This Theatre 100 Years of Broadway Shows Stories and Botto Louis Viagas Rober, p. 314
- Sunset Boulevard ran for 977 performances—still the house record at this writing. At This Theatre 100 Years of Broadway Shows Stories and Botto Louis Viagas Rober, p. 351
- failure at the Minskoff. Another London transfer by ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER, Sunset Boulevard (11/17/94; 977 performances), opened with Glenn Close, George Hearn, and Alan Campbell in the leads. Broadway Its History People and Places An Encyclopedia Bloom Ken 1949 2nd Ed New, p. 377
- He finally found another juicy musical role as Max, the all-too-dutiful manservant of Glenn Close’s Norma Desmond in Sunset Boulevard, winning a second Tony in the process. Broadway Musicals the 101 Greatest Shows of All Time Bloom Ken 1949 Vlastnik Fra, p. 185
- Sunset Boulevard played in los Angeles for a year before moving to Broadway. Broadway Musicals the 101 Greatest Shows of All Time Bloom Ken 1949 Vlastnik Fra, p. 230
Passages naming this production, found by keyword across 178 books. Where it turns up in the literature, not curated notes about it.
What this page does not know
- No photograph of this staging. 48 of 13,459 productions hold one.
- No recording is held for Sunset Boulevard at all.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.