Marilyn: Forever Blonde Website
“A COMPELLING AND NUANCED PERFORMANCE! There are times you cannot believe this is an actress playing Marilyn and not Marilyn herself.”
– BLOOMBERG NEWS. COM
The Star
Sunny Thompson first read the script for MARILYN: FOREVER BLONDE in 2001, but as an international recording star with gold records in South America and several years worth of performances of her own production show through the United States, she could not commit to taking on the project. Finally late in 2005, she stopped performing her own show long enough to begin rehearsals in earnest with director Stephanie Shine. Nearly a year of intense work between actress and director went in to the creation of MARILYN: FOREVER BLONDE.
Sunny takes on the role of Marilyn with respect and determination. “Marilyn was a woman in a man’s world,” says Sunny. It has been important to Stephanie and to Sunny to portray Marilyn not as a victim but as a career woman of the 1950s who did what it took in her day to succeed. "To quote the play, 'I seem to have the whole superstructure with no foundation, but I’m working on the foundation.' Her life was a quest for love and acceptance for the person and the actress. She really was beyond the image of sex symbol."