Melodias da Broadway: Sunset Boulevard (With One Look)

(Ms. Betty Buckley interpretou Norma Desmond em 1994 no Adelphi Theatre, em Londres)

Não resisto -- com os magníficos posts do Filipe e revendo os olhares de Miss Lillian Gish (chegou-me hoje uma nova edição de "Broken Blossoms") e dos outros "monstros do cinema", é-me impossível não invocar a reencarnação de Norma Desmond nos palcos (nunca serão Gloria Swanson, mas também não queremos que sejam).

"With one look
I can break your heart
With one look
I play every part
I can make your sad heart sing
With one look you'll know all you need to know

With one smile
I'm the girl next door
Or the love that you've hungered for
When I speak it's with my soul
I can play any role

No words can tell the stories my eyes tell
Watch me when I frown, you can't write that down
You know I'm right, it's there in black and white
When I look your way, you'll hear what I say

Yes, with one look I put words to shame
Just one look sets the screen aflame
Silent music starts to play
One tear in my eye makes the whole world cry

With one look they'll forgive the past
They'll rejoice I've returned at last
To my people in the dark
Still out there in the dark...

Silent music starts to play
With one look you'll know all you need to know

With one look I'll ignite a blaze
I'll return to my glory days
They'll say, "Norma's back at last!"

This time I am staying, I'm staying for good
I'll be back to where I was born to be
With one look
I'll be me!"

"With One Look", "Sunset Boulevard", música de Andrew Lloyd Webber e letra de Don Black e Christopher Hampton (sim, o dramaturgo e argumentista de "Ligações Perigosas")