SUNSET BLVD. Diahann Carroll
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- Опубліковано 6 бер 2017
- Garth Drabinsky's Livent presented the Canadian production of "Sunset Boulevard" in Toronto and Vancouver. These clips from the end of the show are from the Vancouver run, 1997.
Diahann Carroll (Norma), Rex Smith (Joe Gillis), Walter Charles (Max).
The scream at the end made this my favorite Norma performance. 🎭 You are missed, Ms. Carroll.
I too saw her in Toronto. She was thrilling! I was able to tell her this at her book signing. She took both of my hands in hers and thanked me before singing my book. She was a fabulous beauty and talent and a great lady!
I honestly love Diahann Caroll and Glenn Close as Norma Desmond. They play the role equally well.
Diahann is the only 'Norma' who screams at the end. It's a daring choice and I loved it.
I agree. Norma is by the end completely in a world of her own, so it's interesting to see a Norma who has a sudden realization of the horror of what has happened.
Absolutely - and Diahann is a strikingly beautiful woman, her makeup is somehow extra horrific and kabuki looking compared to the other Norma's...so as those eyes of hers dart around the audience there is a real sense of panic.
Glenn Close screamed at the end of her 94' performance, but she held it for 2 seconds tops.
I LOVE how she uses the big swelling beats in the music to punctuate her emotions - like when her eyes open up on that big beat right before "with one look, I'll be me" and when they sweep side to side with the beats during the last note. I love how the very last line is the horror of what she's done dawning on her - and her trying to put on a brave smile but her voice shaking and finally breaking down. I love how it all comes crashing down so quickly on her. Really I just love this whole thing. This final scene has been played a million ways and I enjoy her interpretation a lot!
She FULLY committed.
Jaw dropping, horrifying, electrifying, moving and simply brilliant.
Thanks, I like it too.
Thank you for this glimpse of Diahann as Norma Desmond. She is amazing!
REST IN PEACE, Diahann… you are a legend… you own a place in entertainment history.
I saw this in Toronto during the run - it was magical. Carroll is magnificent.
Loved this finale, but those final seconds my God! Really showed just how mad and crazed Norma has become! So glad to see this after hearing only an audio.
Her facial expressions and eyes represent a crazed mad Norma very well and real!!!! With One Look!!!!
One of the very best I've seen. RIP Diahann 💔
Fucking wow. No way. She is phenomenal as Norma. I'm blown away. From a grainy recording. imagine this live?! I've watched it on repeat no less than ten times.
I saw it twice with this cast back in the day. It was magnificent
Don't know why I burst into tears watching this.
Hearing the Diahann Carroll/Rex Smith original cast recording was a revelation of this show to me. This brief clip confirms my suspicion that she was absolutely brilliant - heartbreaking with one breath and a ravaged queen in the next. I would love to see her doing AS IF WE NEVER SAID GOODBYE. Thank you for this precious clip.
I saw Ms. Carroll perform the hell out of this part 7 times. Always on point, always the diva, that is how she played it, Norma as the Diva. Just Flawless. Her final scene, shown here, is likely the smoothest of then all. And that growl at the end and partial fall back is priceless, coming after her great closing vocals.
Wish the whole show was available with Ms. Carroll - this was just enough for me to know that she was incredible!
YES, YES, YES, It is just us, and the talent, and the enduring voice plus elegance of Ms. Diahann Carroll, "THE GREATEST STAR OF THEM ALL". I saw this production seven times, and Diahann Carroll delivered Norma to the people out there in the dark, each and every time. Actually it was scary the way she embodied the real character of Norma Desmond. Ms. Carroll STILL ready for her close up.
Rex Smith playing in charter with Ms. Carroll was also excellent and likely the best Joe.
Wow!!! What a brilliant performance of Norma Desmond by the beautiful and very talented Diahann Carroll!!
Best Norma I saw in Toronto played the stage RIP :(
Watching this thrilling and goose bumps finale again and again... I d love to see the applause and curtain call...
You can find some of the opening-night curtain call at about 3:15 here: ua-cam.com/video/VuE_PKW4mgo/v-deo.html
Thank u so much! I just saw your answer
OMG . This is awesome !! A totally different take of the ending where reality crashes down on Norma. She is incredible !! I would love to see the entire video if it’s available! I have the cd soundtrack with Diahann . ❤️❤️❤️❤️
"reality crashes down on Norma"---perfectly put.
She was wonderful as Norma.
Thank you so much for this! I would absolutely love to see more, please!
What a treat to see this!! I trekked to Toronto to see Diahann Carroll in this amazing production, and she was thrilling from start to finish. Thank you so much for posting... would love to see more!!
Incredible nuanced , passionate performance ! DIVA!
The finale is so thrilling! So powerful and dramatic! God, what a presence!
I saw ms CARROLL in this twice! simply amazing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
wow what a find! thank you for posting! She did the thang in T.O. in '95... I'd forgotten her facial expressions...the pathos! I just love her delivery of: "I am ready...for my close up"...
Indeed she was flawless as Norma Desmond, but isn't she always.
she is absolutely brilliant
Thank you for posting this--a much better video record of her performance than the reviewers' reel. It's bold and surprising. We may have said goodbye to Ms. Carroll today, but I have no doubt she's putting on a magnificent show in the sky.
I agree, and glad you liked it.
Rex Smith was amazing probably the best Joe! So significant that Diahann did this as she was a former musical theatre star and could fully embrace the role.
Stunning! Thrilling!
Some people are saying it looks like she's laughing at the end? I don't get that at all. Look at her at her facial expressions her smile fades, her eyes are flitting around at the cameras and seeing the people the reporters and the police and it's all hitting her in what's she's done to Joe and that the dream is well and truly over and she's holding her head like it's too much. I thought it was more a howl of despair in the midst of her madness. Like a caged animal. I call it a bizarre moment of clarity she realises she can't run from reality anymore. It's so disturbing and monstrous and so pathetic and heartbreaking all at once.
Beautifully summed up
Fantastic summary Naomi. One of the most disturbing Norma Desmonds that I've ever seen. Most play Desmond (Glenn Close, Patti LuPone, Elaine Paige, etc.) as always having a sense of what she is doing, but Diahann Carroll seemingly plays her (at least in this scene) as completely detached from reality -- to the point of insanity.
OMG THIS IS PURE GOLD!!! Thanks a lot
Awesome. Thanks so much for posting these!
Bravo.Bravo
Miss Carroll. exit stage Left. Farewell Love💋👠🍷💄
Curtains Closed💃
Wonderful video. She's amazing. Thanks for uploading this gem, Aurora!
I agree truly amazing and emersed in the role totally as is she is Norma Desmond.
I SAW HER IN TORONTO! THE BEST NORMA DESMOND!!!INCREDIBLE!
I agree with you, Ms. Carroll was the best Norma, even Geraldo Rivera said so when he had here on his show.
This really shows just how good Rex Smith was in this role .. I never cared for the other Joe's, but Rex held my interest - would love to see how he handled the rest of the show. Diahann Carroll is still far too beautiful here to be a Norma 😘
RIP Diahann Carroll
Thanks for sharing!
She plays the faded, mad grandeur better than anyone -- I wonder if she saw Josephine Baker toward the end.
my tears my tears I cant control my TEARS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This gave me life. Thank you for sharing it. Ive been wanting to see her in this for forever :)
It gave me life also, all these years later since I saw her do this performance seven times. I thank the person that uploaded this and only pray that they have the whole production with Ms. Diahann Carroll. BRILLANT PERFORMANCE!!!
Spider woman-your fans are dying for more Sunset with Miss Carroll!
she is AMAZING!
I love how she could not say "scene", this was real for her. I was in the audience on the 2nd last night of the final Vancouver production, and I can tell you I was one happy gay boy. (19)
Amazing quality....She's incredible! Please say you've got more of this performance!
THAT FINALE OMG
Did you not just live through that ending. Off the charts.
It's shattering!
I saw the cast in Vancouver. I'm sure Carroll's performance may have varied but the night I saw the show she absolutely walked through the role EXCEPT for the final staircase scene where all of a sudden she came to life. She was truly riveting yet it was a shame it took so long for her to shine. I'd seen Buckley, Clark and Paige in the role and in each case Norma was definitely the STAR of the show (though I must admit Carroll's final scene was probably the strongest of the four divas). However in the Carroll version, Rex Smith was so strong as Joe that the entire show shifted towards his character for the very first time which I really found interesting. In fact you could feel the audience reacting more towards Smith's character than hers. Don't get me wrong. I still enjoyed the show and was glad I'd seen Carroll but wish she had "emoted" more much earlier. But as Mama Rose once said, "Give audiences a big finish and they'll forgive anything that preceded it!"
Saw N\Ms Carroll as Norma Desmond 7 times, and each time I watched her perform this intense part, she was just that INTENSE!!! You are right Rex was the best Joe I have seen, and Ms Carrol was a GREAT Norma! He final staircase scene was the best of them all.
Harry Vossenas Did she do that animalistic scream when you saw it as well?
How do I get a copy of the full Vancouver show please
Seriously can't stop watching this over and over. Do you have With One Look?!
She is amazing and highly nuanced in her touching, emotional, delivery. Her voice, acting skills, and beauty own the part, the best Norma ever! What a finale!!!!!!!!!
Is there a full performance? Asking for a friend. ;) I saw Buckley in London and loved her, but Carroll brings something raw and evocative to Norma. ❤
Brilliance.
OMG! I have been looking for this. Can you please upload the whole show with the great Diahan Caroll? I saw her twice in Toronto. Rex Smith was also great as Joe the reporter!
Yesssss! Diva...I felt that ending!!!
WHERE did you get this???!!! OMG-Spiderwoman!!! I grew up in Rochester, NY and begged EVERYONE I knew to please take me to see this while it was playing!!! You have literally made my day-please tell me there's more!!!
There is more---glad you liked it.
Please, pretty please, post MORE!!!!
And I thought Helen Schneider's Norma was the craziest!
please please please tell me you would consider trading this video or selling copy. I have tons of different Sunset audios including one of the complete show with Susan Dawn Carson. she was the understudy Glenn Close and Betty Buckley in the Broadway production. She only went on a handful of times. I remember seeing this in Toronto with Diahann Carroll. Please please consider it. I know I'm begging but my heart did flips when I saw this. I never need this video is out there
I would like a copy as well myself.
💚💜💙🙏🏼
Does anyone know where I can stream the full version of this?
Her laugh at the end is so haunting.
Though it was in her mind, Desmond finally got what she wanted and her reaction during her speech should be genuine; however, I felt Gloria Swanson and Glenn Close performance is too over the top while Diahann Caroll's is in the moment and so heartfelt. This was her role.
You are so on point here. This was like ",, this is my life, there is nothing else" Carroll was AMAZING in this role!!!
But she wasn't laughing... It was an agonizing wail of a woman who just realized what she has done and what is about to happen to her.
Yeah it's more of a scream then a laugh. It's like a haunting Howl
Can you PLEASE upload “with one look”? Pleeeeaaaaassssse ❤
Much prefer what she does here to the Glenn Close performance I saw. This is stunning.
DIOS, ESE FINAL!!! PIEL DE GALLINA
Acting-wise, she’s fabulous in this clip. Better than the acting in any clip I’ve seen of Glenn Close. Brava!
I did never hear this version of Sunset Blvd. Know Diahann is a great singer but didn´t know she was such a great actress!. Simply wonderful in this role. Best Norma Desmond, even better than Glenn Close who sometimes looks a bit overacted.
Why didn't Carol Burnett ever play this show?
Harp Phila Because no one would be able to take her seriously.
matt bomer for norma!
PIEL DE GALLINA...
Wow what a downgrade in costuming! No headdress, no elaborate beaded gown. Norma looks more worn out here and exhausted, not Diahann, just the interpretation. Very interesting.
cliff9685 Huh? It's all there.
emlodik sorry my video cut out early on for some reason. I was commenting on the beginning of the scene with her black outfit and the graying hair. I see the ending now with the grand over the top outfit. Always wondered about her interpretation, so thank you for sharing!
At this point in the play and movie Norma is actually "...worn out and exhausted," this was what made the performance of a great beauty like Diahann Carroll even more amazing. I thought she looked great in her costumes. You are of course right, Ms. Carroll gave a very interesting interpretation then all the others. More on point I believe.
I foubd her performance AMAZING!!! Far more sincere than Betty Buckley, who was just plain stiff.
ramona2400 ricky yes I agree. Diahann has an intensity and believability to her performance. Some over act it to the point of camp or are just flat, but Diahann is full on here. You defiantly buy the emotions and that she is totally gone in the end. That scream at the end is really terrifying!
This performance is very static