How Gay Is Norma Desmond and Sunset Boulevard?


1950.

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Joe Gillis: You’re Norma Desmond.
 You used to be in silent pictures.
 You used to be BIG!.
Norma Desmond: I *am* big.
It’s the *pictures* that got small !!


Norma Desmond: Here, I was
 going to give it to you at midnight.
Joe Gillis: Norma, I can’t take it,
you’ve bought me enough.
Norma Desmond: Shut up, I’m rich!
I’m richer than all this new
Hollywood trash!
 I’ve got a million dollars.

CLASSIC!



Now  comes   NORMA DOESMEN !  Final week! Critics are raving!

Set in a run-down chateau of an alcazar on Sunset Boulevard, Norma Doesmen follows the story an unemployed script-writer “Joe Dillis” who finds himself on the run from the re-po men and dives into the lap of a reclusive, silent-screen movie star “Norma Doesmen.”


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Waiting for her return to filmdom, Norma finds her prey in Dillis, who is manipulated and seduced by this insane, over sexed, psychotically disordered fallen legend. Along with her totally schizophrenic servant “Max” and Joe’s devoted narcoleptic girlfriend, “Betty ShaveHer,” the comedy ensues as Joe accidentally crosses her path and she sees in him an opportunity to make her comeback to the big screen.

Final Week – THRU  March 28th!

Norma Doesmen, a parody of a popular 1950’s film starring the 7 time Manhattan Association of Cabarets & Clubs (MAC) impersonator Tommy Femia, follows the story of an unemployed script writer “Joe Dillis” who finds himself on the run from the re-pro men and dives into the lap of a reclusive, Silent Screen Movie Star “Norma Doesmen” waiting for her return to filmdom, Norma insane, over sexed, psychotically disordered fallen ledgend and her schizophrenic servant “Max” and Joe’s Devoted narcoleptic girlfriend, “Betty ShaveHer”.

Abingdon Theatre Arts Complex    312 West 36th Street – 1st Flr

New York, NY 10018       (Between 8th & 9th Aves.)  


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