A musical of outsized passions as only Andrew Lloyd Webber could compose, Sunset Boulevard trades in hyperbole. "The greatest star of all," in the words of Max, her homme d'affaires, Norma Desmond is camp drama queen extraordinaire. With Glenn Close in the role, reprising her Tony-winning performance of 22 years ago at the Palace Theater, Norma is petit as she is large. Fred Johanson, a bald Max, Norma's enabler said, his greatest challenge was holding back, not taking his fawning indulgence in "The Greatest Star of All," too far. "A performance for the ages," a theater insider enthused of Glenn Close's Norma Desmond: that praise did not feel like hyperbole.

Source: Huffington Post February 11, 2017 21:20 UTC