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How Broadway’s ‘Sunset Blvd’ Pulled Off Opening Credits and Car Chase Sequence
"Sunset Boulevard" director Jamie Lloyd discusses how he pulled off the opening credits, car chase sequence and filming around Times Square.
For veteran theater director Jamie Lloyd, implementing opening credits — another meta layer to “play with levels of reality” in his new Broadway reimagining of “ Sunset Boulevard ” — was never part of the plan. The sequence in question begins as the show’s down-on-his-luck protagonist, Joe Gillis ( Tom Francis), faces an “act of desperation.” He gets chased in his car by two finance men and eventually stumbles across Norma Desmond’s ( Nicole Scherzinger) old home. Nodding to this in the actual making of the production, Lloyd says, allows them to “expose the mechanics of filmmaking and theater-making.” That also comes into play during Joe’s live walk-around, which opens the second act and has been one of the show’s biggest talking points.
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