Glenn Close is scary good in ‘Sunset Boulevard’ on Broadway

When Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical version of “Sunset Boulevard” first opened at London’s Adelphi Theatre in 1993, audiences were dazzled by John Napier’s gilded re-creation of Norma Desmond’s mansion of deranged despair. This unforgettable gothic-baroque — and irony-free — hunk of maximalist expressionism came replete with a huge pipe organ and enough twisting nooks and crevices to tease the eye all night. It allowed for noir accommodation but was burnished in the darkest of brooding golds.