SUNSET BOULEVARD (1958)
(aka "Boulevard!" and "Starring Norma Desmond")

Composers: Richard Stapley
Lyricists: Dickson Hughes

Opened: Unproduced

Note: Only numbers omitted from the Stage Door CD issue of the original demonstration acetates are noted below. A show entitled SWANSON ON SUNSET was workshopped at the Hollywood Roosevelt Cinegrill in 1994 using certain songs from this show along with a dramatization of the trials of composers trying to mount the original production.

Dance:

1. Private Acetate Draft 2 [N.B. Tango music is played under dialogue on the "New Years Eve - Norma's House" track of the CD which may or not contain the same music]


A Silent Music (also used in SWANSON ON SUNSET):

1. Private Acetate Draft 2 (Unidentified vocalist, possibly Dickson Hughes)
2. Laurie Franks Sings Broadway And Beyond, CD/No label DADR 0MX32<8012> (Laurie Franks with Dickson Hughes at the piano)

When You're Above The Crowd:

1. Private Acetate Draft 1 (Unidentified vocalist, possibly Dickson Hughes)
2. Private Acetate Draft 2 (Unidentified vocalist, possibly Dickson Hughes)