Sheila Norgate, Raven with Issues

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Diahann Carroll as Norma Desmond in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Sunset Boulevard, photographed during the landmark Canadian production at Toronto’s Ford Centre for the Performing Arts, where she starred from October 1995 through August 1996 before the production transferred to Vancouver for an additional run into 1997. Carroll brought a uniquely glamorous and world-weary elegance to Norma, draped in opulent beaded gowns, sculptural turbans, satin caftans, and jewel-toned costumes that emphasized the faded silent-screen grandeur at the heart of the role. Her performance marked one of the first major productions of Sunset Boulevard to feature a Black actress as Norma Desmond, and became a celebrated chapter in the musical’s international history. 

My father, burned (1994), dir. Haruka Doi

the power of 3 (2026)

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