Nicole Scherzinger can add bona fide Broadway star to her list of career accolades, after her stunning debut in the revival of Sunset Boulevard.
The musical – based on the 1950 film of the same name – first opened on London’s West End in 1993 starring Patti Lupone as Norma Desmond, with Glenn Close starring in the Broadway run in 1994.
Close also returned for the West End revival in 2016 and the Broadway revival in 2017, though Scherzinger, 46, starred in the 2023 West End revival.
She took home the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Musical, and following a successful preview run – taking in $1 million in the first week – the show opened in earnest on Sunday at the St. James Theatre.
The actress received numerous standing ovations throughout her Broadway debut, including one, according to People, that lasted a whopping six minutes.
Nicole Scherzinger can add bona fide Broadway star to her list of career accolades, after her stunning debut in the revival of Sunset Boulevard.
The actress received numerous standing ovations throughout her Broadway debut, including one, according to People , that lasted a whopping six minutes
She also came out to pose for photos alongside composer Andrew Lloyd Webber, while covered in fake blood.
While standing ovations are not necessarily out of the ordinary on Broadway, The Daily Beast insisted that this standing ovation was quite different.
‘It is not the usual Broadway standing ovation: polite and dutiful. It is not even the appreciative and happy standing ovation: heartfelt and feelgood. This is something else. The whooping and applauding goes on and on, a wave upon wave of loud appreciation, no one in any rush to stop or leave,’ the article says.
They added that the only thing that came close to that kind of, ‘audience fervency in recent years was the reaction to Bette Midler in the 2017 revival of Hello, Dolly!’
‘At Sunset Blvd. too, you think the roof could legitimately blow off, or the theater simply launch into outer space powered by an explosive burst of pure gay joy,’ they added.
There should be paramedics outside to make sure everyone emerging, dazed and delirious from the crazy fabulousness of Sunset Blvd. stays safely upright. In the best ways, the show takes camp and spectacle to oxygen-needed-on-Everest levels.
She revealed in September that she had never even considered tackling this iconic role before she spoke with Andrew Lloyd Webber.
‘I was like, “Are you crazy? Are you mad?” I didn’t get it, because I only ever had Glenn Close in my mind — and Gloria Swanson in the old film,’ Scherzinger said.
She also came out to pose for photos alongside composer Andrew Lloyd Webber , while covered in fake blood.
While standing ovations are not necessarily out of the ordinary on Broadway, The Daily Beast insisted that this standing ovation was quite different.
‘It is not the usual Broadway standing ovation: polite and dutiful. It is not even the appreciative and happy standing ovation: heartfelt and feelgood. This is something else. The whooping and applauding goes on and on, a wave upon wave of loud appreciation, no one in any rush to stop or leave,’ the article says
‘It is not the usual Broadway standing ovation: polite and dutiful. It is not even the appreciative and happy standing ovation: heartfelt and feelgood. This is something else. The whooping and applauding goes on and on, a wave upon wave of loud appreciation, no one in any rush to stop or leave,’ the article says
She revealed in September that she had never even considered tackling this iconic role before she spoke with Andrew Lloyd Webber
‘He was like, “Don’t watch the movie, don’t listen to anybody else, just read the lines and listen to the music.” And when I did, I just fell in love with Norma,’ she said.
‘I didn’t realize that this is the role that I’ve been waiting to play all my life. We’re doing a completely different, new interpretation,’ she insisted.
‘There are so many parallels between Sunset Boulevard and what you have to do to make it in Hollywood,’ Scherzinger added.
‘Even when you’re fully loaded with so much talent, you could still be overlooked because of stereotypes and ageism. It is a tragedy. ” have so much ammunition for this — so much fuel,’ she said.
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