Happy Hour #31: We're Ready for our Podcast, Mr. DeMille – ‘Sunset Boulevard’
Put on your your finest fir and hop in your star vehicle (an Isotta-Fraschini, naturally) as we drive down Andrew Lloyd Webber's Sunset Boulevard! Jimi and Tommy chat about film noir, lazy rhymes, and Patti LuPone's Andrew Lloyd Webber memorial pool.
Show Notes
Andrew Lloyd Webber has four musicals on Broadway right now (Phantom of the Opera, Cats, School of Rock and Sunset Boulevard). It all makes for one interesting photo:
Check out this smokey, vintage trailer for the original movie version of Sunset Boulevard.
Much to Tommy's chagrin, we've talked Andrew Lloyd Webber musicals a few times before on the podcast. Check out our coverage of Phantom and Cats.
Yes, Tommy has an obsession with Murder, She Wrote. No, it's not a problem…
And today on Jim and Tomic's Video Game Happy Hour, it's the point-and-click classic Grim Fandango.
Want to relive the whole newspaper-reading, floor lamp-heaving moments for yourself? Check out Patti LuPone's Memoir.
Or, for a quick look into the fiasco (and discussion of the ALW memorial pool) check out this New York Times article.
Jimi's favorite: Elaine Page singing With one Look. …take a look at it…get it?
A breathy quiz question…
One of the songs in the original production of this show was specifically written to accommodate the leading lady's tiny lungs. Interestingly, this is not the first time a song has been written to accommodate this actress. What show is it?