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Glenn Close "Sunset Boulevard" Reportedly Sets Broadway Encore

Composer Andrew Lloyd Webber could have four shows on Broadway simultaneously.

Sunset Boulevard

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Glenn Close and Julian Forsyth (Richard Hubert Smith)

With three of his musicals currently playing on Broadway, composer Andrew Lloyd Webber is ready to make good on his previously stated desire to add a fourth, a transfer of the recent hit London revival of Sunset Boulevard.

The New York Post reported that the show “is definitely a go” for the Palace Theatre in January 2017. No source for the report was named, but, as previously reported by Playbill.com, producers Paul Blake and Mike Bosner (Beautiful: The Carole King Musical) have expressed a desire to import the recent English National Opera production into Broadway's Palace Theatre for 20 weeks starting in January. However there has been no official announcement.

Click here for the full article published on Playbill.com by Robert Viagas on October 13, 2016.