Based on Billy Wilder's dark, 1950 film noir piece of the same name, with music by Andrew Lloyd Webber and lyrics and book by Don Black and Christopher Hampton. It tells the story of Norma Desmond, (Mary Kate O’Connell) a faded former silent film star turned hermit. Desmond harbors delusional dreams of making a comeback, and she hires Joe Gillis (Kevin Deese) - an unemployed screenwriter - to rewrite the unwieldy movie script she has penned to be her comeback starring role. Max Von Mayerling (Michael J. Galante), is Norma's dedicated, overprotective, enabling butler with Betty Schaeffer (Heather Casseri), as the clever young production assistant that dreams of being a screenwriter. Ambition, desperation, love, deception, and murder. The perfect Hollywood plot! |