 With the prospective detective show not working out, Dunaway became interested in returning to the stage.She auditioned to replace Glenn Close in the musical "Sunset Boulevard", a stage version of 1950 film of the same name.The composer and producer Andrew Lloyd Webber cast Dunaway in the famed role of Norma Desmond, and Dunaway began rehearsing to take over the LA engagement when Close moved the show to Broadway.