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Article: Ready for her close-up; In the larger-than-life role of silent- movie queen Norma Desmond, in the footsteps of film divas Gloria Swanson and Glenn Close, tonight at the Orpheum it's `Sunset Boulevard' starring ... Linda Balgord, a virtual unknown.(VARIETY)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
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- December 26, 1996
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1/3 "Sunset Boulevard: STARRING Linda Balgord!!" . . . no, cancel that. How about "Featuring Linda Balgord" . . . no, no. Maybe "With Linda Balgord, and a great big 40,000-pound set with a really big staircase . . ."
OK. So, it'll probably end up being "Andrew Lloyd Webber's Mega-epic, Super Spectacular `Sunset Boulevard,' with, in alphabetical order, Linda Balgord . . .
No one knows that better than the good-natured Balgord herself.
She was chosen by no less than Lloyd Webber to play the starring role of Norma Desmond in the two-year, 40-city national tour of "Sunset Boulevard." But she's not exactly a really big name, so she's had to ...