Glenn Close revisits 'most challenging role I've ever had'

The actress keeps and stores most of her old costumes, including all the glorious ones she last wore playing the delusional former film star Norma Desmond in "Sunset Boulevard."

Audiences will get to see her in them on Broadway as Close brings "Sunset Boulevard " to the Palace Theatre with a 40-piece orchestra.

"Sunset Boulevard," based on the Billy Wilder film, tells the story of a faded film star who recruits a young writer to help relaunch her career, with disastrous results.

The latest version took London by storm under the direction of Lonny Price, who has stripped down the show, tells it from the point of view of the young writer and sets it in an abandoned soundstage.

Really, it's a middle-aged woman fighting for life, in her career and in her personal life.

[...] he finds himself in one of four Lloyd Webber musicals simultaneously playing on Broadway — joining The Phantom of the Opera, ''Cats and School of Rock.

For Lloyd Webber, landing Close again was a coup because he thinks she adds a special dimension to the role: She is and has been a screen goddess.