This recording of the multi-award winning SUNSET BLVD., masterfully reimagined by two-time Tony Award® nominee and multiple Olivier Award® winning director Jamie Lloyd, was captured live on the stage at London’s Savoy Theatre. Featuring Olivier Award winner and GRAMMY Award® nominee Nicole Scherzinger, Olivier Award winner Tom Francis, Olivier Award nominee Grace Hodgett Young, and Olivier Award winner David Thaxton, SUNSET BLVD’s debut in London, won seven Olivier Awards, including Best Musical Revival, Nicole Scherzinger for Best Actress in a Musical and Tom Francis for Best Actor in a Musical.
To commemorate the official album release, a new clip of “With One Look,” featuring Nicole Scherzinger and directed by Jamie Lloyd dropped today.
SUNSET BLVD: The Album serves as the ultimate experience from the show, while simultaneously being a deeply rich and satisfying listening experience in its own right. This masterful reinterpretation is poised to win over a new legion of converts while thrilling the most loyal of devotees of this beloved show.
The album is being released as a Triple LP vinyl, featuring beautiful imagery from the London show and a note from Andrew Lloyd Webber included.
Written by Andrew Lloyd Webber, Don Black and Christopher Hampton, the album was produced by Andrew Lloyd Webber, Jamie Lloyd, Lee McCutcheon, Adam Fisher and Alan Williams mixed in Dolby Atmos, spatial audio.
“Sunset Boulevard” the title song, performed by Tom Francis, was the first track to be unveiled from the new recording. Watch director Jamie Lloyd’s music video for the track below.
When The Jamie Lloyd Company’s new production of SUNSET BLVD. began performances in London last fall, it immediately grabbed the attention of theatergoers worldwide as an extraordinary reimagination of Lloyd Webber’s magnificent musical which is based on the classic Paramount Pictures film directed by Billy Wilder. Lloyd’s “tour de force of a show” (Evening Standard) became the talk of both sides of the Atlantic and was called “the show of the year” (Time Out).
Nicole Scherzinger stars as the immortal Norma Desmond in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s celebrated SUNSET BLVD., reimagined by visionary director Jamie Lloyd, with book and lyrics by Don Hampton and Christopher Hampton.
Haunted by her memories and dreams, movie star Norma Desmond yearns to return to the big screen. A struggling screenwriter who can’t sell his scripts to the Hollywood studios may be her only hope, until their dangerous and captivating relationship leads to disaster. Drenched in champagne and cynicism, SUNSET BLVD. focuses the lens on the ambitions and frustrations of its characters and puts their intoxicating need for fame and adoration in stark close-up.
