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“And so, to hear those stories, I truly will treasure that forever,” he added.

Lisa Marie passed away after suffering cardiac arrest, just two days after Butler won a Golden Globe for his performance in Elvis.

Stephanie J. Block says she had just performed at the Kennedy Center’s “50 Years of Broadway” concert last February when Jeffrey Finn, the artistic director of the performing arts center’s Broadway Center Stage series, pulled her aside and presented what she assumed was an off-the-cuff proposition: “Let me know what show you want to do.”

“I took it as a great compliment, but I didn’t necessarily take it at face value, to be honest,” says Block, a 2019 Tony winner for “The Cher Show.” “Two days later, he texted me again and said, ‘I’m still waiting to hear telegram database what production you would like to do.’ And with that, I suggested ‘Sunset Boulevard.’”

A year later, Block is starring as faded silver-screen icon musical take on the classic film “Sunset Boulevard” from Feb. 1-8 at the Kennedy Center. Once she completes the latest installment of the Broadway Center Stage series, which also stars Derek Klena as embattled screenwriter Joe Gillis and “Moana’s” Auli’i Cravalho as ambitious script editor Betty Schaefer, Block will return to the Kennedy Center in late February to reprise her role as the Baker’s Wife in the touring production of the hit Broadway revival of “Into the Woods.”

With a perfect cast, Broadway has an ‘Into the Woods’ for the ages

Speaking by phone last week during a break from “Sunset Boulevard” rehearsals in New York, the 50-year-old actress discussed reimagining Lloyd Webber’s 1993 musical; her history of stepping into daunting roles; and what it’s like to star in “Into the Woods” with her husband, “House of Cards” actor Sebastian Arcelus.