Sunset Boulevard

Donald Gordon Theatre

Sunset Boulevard

26 Feb - 03 Mar 2018

Tickets from £18

Age Guidance: 12+ (No under 2s). Contains some strong language.

Running time: Approximately 2 hours and 10 minutes (including 1 interval)

Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Tony Award®-winning (Best Musical, Best Original Score & Best Book of a Musical) masterpiece Sunset Boulevard, directed by Nikolai Foster and starring Ria Jones as Norma Desmond, is coming to the Centre.

One of the all-time great musicals, Sunset Boulevard is a compelling story of romance and obsession, based on Billy Wilder’s legendary film, with Don Black and Christopher Hampton's wonderful book and lyrics.

In her mansion on Sunset Boulevard, faded silent-screen goddess, Norma Desmond, lives in a fantasy. 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 lifestyle. Joe becomes entrapped in a claustrophobic world until his love for another woman leads him to try and break free - with dramatic consequences.

With internationally acclaimed musical theatre star Ria Jones, who received standing ovations every night when performing the role at the London Coliseum, and its much-loved score (including Sunset Boulevard, With One Look, The Greatest Star Of All and The Perfect Year) performed with full orchestra, this “majestic, mesmerising and teasingly seductive” (The Evening Standard) production promises to be a spectacular evening.

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Theatr Donald Gordon

Sunset Boulevard

26 Chwe - 03 Maw 2018

Tocynnau o £18

Canllaw Oed: 12+ (Dim plant dan 2 oed). Yn cynnwys peth iaith gref.

Hyd y Perfformiad: Tua 2 awr a 10 munud (yn cynnwys 1 egwyl)

Daw Sunset Boulevard, sef un o gampweithiau mwyaf adnabyddus Andrew Lloyd Webber sydd wedi ennill peth wmbredd o Wobrau Tony® (Sioe Gerdd Orau, Sgôr Wreiddiol Orau a Llyfr Sioe Gerdd Orau) i lwyfan y Ganolfan, wedi’i gyfarwyddo gan Nikolai Foster gyda Ria Jones fel Norma Desmond.

Fel un o sioeau cerdd gorau ein hoes, mae Sunset Boulevard yn stori rymus am gariad ac obsesiwn, yn seiliedig ar y ffilm chwedlonol gan Billy Wilder, gyda llyfr a geiriau rhagorol Don Black a Christopher Hampton.

Mewn plasty crand ar Sunset Boulevard, mae seren aflwyddiannus y ffilmiau mud, Norma Desmond yn byw mewn ffantasi lwyr. Gyda’r sgriptiwr tlawd, Joe Gillis yn ceisio dianc rhag casglwyr dyledion daw lwc i’w fyd wrth iddo daro ar fywyd unig Desmond. Wedi’i berswadio i weithio ar ‘gampwaith’ Norma, sgript ffilm y mae hi’n credu y daw â llwyddiant iddi, caiff ei demtio gan ei bywyd moethus. Daw Joe yn gaeth i’w ffordd o fyw mewn byd clawstroffobig cyn disgyn mewn cariad â dynes hardd arall sy’n ei arwain at geisio torri’n rhydd - gyda chanlyniadau dramatig.

Gyda seren theatr gerdd sy’n enwog ym mhedwar ban y byd Ria Jones, lle gwelwyd y gynulleidfa gyfan ar ei thraed bob nos pan berfformiodd y rôl yn y London Colieseum, a sgôr boblogaidd (sy’n cynnwys Sunset Boulevard, With One Look, The Greatest Star Of All a The Perfect Year) wedi’i pherfformio gan gerddorfa lawn, bydd y cynhyrchiad anhygoel yma’n sicr o’ch gwefreiddio mewn noson fythgofiadwy yn y theatr.