Sarah Brightman plays the role of the no longer female star Norma in the musical "Sunset Avenue".

Salome would rather kiss his lover's head and follow him to perish. If you don’t get it, you will destroy it. Love and hate are the same clan and roots.

In the musical "Sunset Avenue", Norma, an actress who was once brilliant in the silent film era, was deserted after the rise of audio movies, and no producers came to her to play roles. She lives in her own mansion, and one day she welcomes Joe, a young screenwriter who exudes hormones and wants to go to the next level. Joe was ravaged by life and creditors, and he was panicked and ran to Norma's house. Norma and the butler Max initially thought he was holding a funeral for the orangutan. Then, when they saw that a screenwriter came to the door, they immediately took out a script they were writing and said, "You can change it for me, so we can write it together."

This is a script that Norma hopes to turn the tables against the wind, and it is written by Salome. From this moment on, this incident became a prophecy and a prophecy came true.

Sarah Brightman, who plays Norma, became popular in every family in China during her prime, and she was the ones on the speaker. It is a family song that many people born in the 1970s and 1980s enjoyed with their parents in their youth, symbolizing elegance, style and fashion. Her and Weber's career and emotional lines are closely intertwined, making each other successful. The classic photo is beautiful, with four words written in the words "Moonlight Goddess".

However, in that era, musicals were far less than the market coverage in China today, and were just the beauty learned by a few cultures, dramas, music workers and audiences through CDs. Today, when many viewers walked into the theater with the expectations of that year, facing Sarah Brightman, who was already called "Sister Sha" and "Aunt Sha", she regretfully found that her voice and tone seemed dim and her body was old. Therefore, it is believed that Sarah Brightman is not as good as back then, and it is obviously a position to talk about the actors and the works separately. Time takes away youth, but it enriches the actor's role spectrum. Isn’t Norma’s character setting a most pragmatic fit to a dazzling name Sarah Brightman?

The whole play is full of colorful passages, which is where Norma sings infinite expectations for the set and the spotlight. "I don't know why I'm afraid, I know everything very well" "Why does it seem like we have never said goodbye, the world has been waiting for a long time, and I finally go home." The soul burning for ideals finally stretched out at this moment. She was like a newborn baby, trembling and crying, and she was like her first love, and her life was open. All the almost artificial sense of ritual has become simple and unpretentious. Many viewers were thrust hard, and the same pursuit and resonance of life were sublimated to the point of emotional heat in this song. Sarah Brightman's understanding and interpretation of the characters is quite accurate. Her voice was slightly gloomy and hoarse, with dramatic neuroticism, and her body was slightly exaggerated, shaping a sense of ritual in which a generation of queens adhered to their last territory and self-esteem in the ups and downs of time. As the river goes east and time goes by, no one can stand at the forefront forever. Finding the stage that suits you the most is the continuation of the endless charm of the actors.

Another important role in the whole play is equally unforgettable.

As an actor who became famous in the silent film era, Norma became at a loss when the wave of audio movies hit, and she no longer had a glory. She hid in her own house, playing the role of the former star in a fragile and exaggerated way. Butler Max carefully guards this old dream, creates many letters from fans, and protects the dream era that he has experienced, because he is Norma's director and her ex-husband. This is the last mythical fortress and the greatest possibility for Norma to survive in his old golden dream. Max could even bear Joe's appearance in Norma's life, watching Norma catch Joe, like a life-saving straw for youth.

In Joe's eyes, Norma was as willful as a girl, blindly thinking that she could write this script and send it to Paramount, her fate would turn around, investors, producers and audiences never left; a man broke into the door, with some talent and imperative youth, and she felt that she was still beautiful and incomparable, and could completely pass the charm - of course, the passage of giving gifts, buying clothes and cutting his wrists for love - such a powerful woman, and so hysterical for him, is even more rare. He comprehensively analyzed and of course there was the same desperate situation. Both of them were essentially desperate and hit it off. She keeps him and then realizes an alliance.

Now each of them has multiple positions, including the housekeeper, ex-husband, director, dream maker, screenwriter, lover, collaborator, hostess, center and controller of the world stage - this is Norma's huge empire.

After all, Qiao was disconnected. There is no suspense. He also won the recognition and admiration of young women by guiding the writing scripts. This survival skill did not make him successful, and he was able to deal with women with ease. This also shows that talent is a man's ultimate skill. In this way, Qiao was really moved after being filled with warmth. Norma, who was as agile as a leopard, discovered it immediately. Qiao Boguan gave up and let the young woman come to the mansion on Sunset Avenue where he lives to see it with his own eyes. The young woman was sad and disappointed and could not face Joe who was stingy. Qiao was also angry and embarrassed, and saw Chenghuan's aging and destruction, so he became cruel and determined. He exposes Norma's dream: Paramount didn't like her, but he likes her car and wants to borrow it for use, that's all.

Norma screamed, and she immediately called Max's name. This man is her only support. In despair, Norma raised his gun and penetrated Joe, just like breaking through this cruel truth: if love is nothing, it would rather die than get it. Salome kissed the prophet's head, just like the creative theme of Norma and Joe. It did not enter Paramount's door, but completed it in Norma's magical home. The escalator in Norma's home became the center of the stage for the end of her life, and she was almost crazy as the audience watched.

In this episode, Sarah Brightman once again showed his personal charm. She sang the heroine's heart song in confusion. The stage in her heart shone brightly, and the queen's scepter was never put down, like a spell. Love is fierce, colder than death. The script of the heroine is engraved in life while chasing the light. Sarah Brightman has a strong demeanor and aura, and the years have passed, leaving the audience with the sigh of relief in the Chinese tour version, and it is also the wonderful intertextualization of Sarah Brightman and Weber once again working together with the work "Sunset Avenue". The artists' frankness and self-blissment continue to improve the pattern of their works in a contemporary sense, and this version should not be missed in any case. (The author of Lin Weiran is a first-class screenwriter, a teacher at the Central Academy of Drama, and a doctoral student at the School of Drama, Film and Television, Communication University of China)

[Editor in charge: Tang Wei]