Ria Jones will play Norma Desmon in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Sunset Boulevard UK Tour starting at the Curve Theatre in Leicester in September 2017.
In her mansion on Sunset Boulevard, faded, silent-screen goddess, Norma Desmond, lives in a fantasy world. Impoverished screen writer, Joe Gillis, on the run from debt collectors, stumbles into her reclusive world. Persuaded to work on Norma’s ‘masterpiece’, a film script that she believes will put her back in front of the cameras, he is seduced by her and her luxurious life-style. Joe becomes entrapped in a claustrophobic world until his love for another woman leads him to try and break free with dramatic consequences.
Sunset Boulevard, based on Billy Wilder’s classic film is one of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s greatest musicals. The Tony Award-winning musical (Best Musical, Best Original Score and Best Book Of A Musical) with Don Black and Christopher Hampton’s wonderful book and lyrics. This rich, lush score includes songs like With One Look, As If We Never Said Goodbye, The Greatest Star Of All, The Perfect Year and the show’s title song.
The Sunset Boulevard UK Tour will star Ria Jones, who played the role of Norma Desmond at the London Coliseum last year when Glenn Close was indisposed receiving rave reviews for her performance. Danny Mac will play the role of ‘Joe Gillis’. Joining them are Adam Pearce as ‘Max Von Mayerling’, Molly Lynch as ‘Betty Schaefer’, Dougie Carter as ‘Artie Green’ and Carl Sanderson as ‘Cecil B DeMille’.
The rest of the company includes Bernadette Bangura, Matthew Barrow, Benjamin Chambers, Joanna Goodwin, Kristoffer Hellström, Iain Mattley, James Meunier, Gemma Naylor, Fiona O’Carroll, Joanna O’Hare, Jessica Paul, Sam Peggs, Tom Vincent and Barney Wilkinson
Sunset Boulevard will be directed by Nikolai Foster, Artistic Director of The Curve.
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SUNSET BOULEVARD UK TOUR
16- 30 September 2017
Curve Theatre, Leicester
3 – 7 October 2017
Edinburgh Playhouse
9 – 14 October 2017
Theatre Royal Newcastle
16 – 21 October 2017
Swansea Grand
23 October – 4 November 2017
Palace Theatre, Manchester
6 – 11 November 2017
His Majesty’s Theatre, Aberdeen
13 – 18 November 2017
Birmingham Hippodrome
20 – 25 November 2017
Bord Gais Energy Theatre, Dublin
28 November – 2 December 2017
Milton Keynes Theatre
2018
9 – 13 January 2018
Bristol Hippodrome
Danny Mac is not performing at this venue
16 – 20 January 2018
Mayflower Theatre Southampton
Danny Mac is not performing at this venue
22 – 27 January 2018
New Victoria Theatre, Woking
Danny Mac is not performing at this venue
29 January – 3 February 2018
Cliffs Pavillion Southend
5 – 10 February 2018
Alhambra Theatre, Bradford
19 – 24 February 2018
Liverpool Empire
26 February – 3 March 2018
Wales Millenium Centre
Danny Mac will not be performing on Monday 26 Feb
5-10 March 2018
Ipswich Regent Theatre
12 – 17 March 2018
Theatre Royal Plymouth
9 – 14 April 2018
New Wimbledon Theatre
16 – 21 April 2018
Marlowe Theatre Canterbury
23 – 26 April 2018
Sheffield Lyceum
