After an impressive debut in the revival of Sunset Boulevard, Nicole Scherzinger can add bona fide Broadway star to her list of professional accolades.
Based on the 1950 film of the same name, the musical premiered in London's West End in 1993 with Patti LuPone as Norma Desmond. Glenn Close starred in a Broadway run in 1994.
Close returned for a West End revival in 2016 and a Broadway revival in 2017, although Scherzinger, 46, starred in the 2023 West End revival.
She took home the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Musical and, after a successful trailer, took off. $1 million in first week – The show got off to a spectacular start Sunday at the St. James Theatre.
The actress received several standing ovations during her Broadway debut, People, which lasted a whopping six minutes.
Nicole Scherzinger can add surefire Broadway star to her list of professional accolades after her impressive debut in the revival of Sunset Boulevard.
The actress received several standing ovations throughout her Broadway debut, one of which, according to People, lasted six minutes.
He also posed for photographs with musician Andrew Lloyd Webber while covered in blood.
Being on Broadway isn't necessarily unusual. The Daily Beast insisted that this ovation was something else entirely.
'This is not your typical Broadway ovation: polite and helpful. It's not even a standing ovation, grateful and joyful: heartfelt and emotional. This is something else. The shouts and applause go on and on, waves of loud applause, and no one stops or leaves in a hurry,” the article says.
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'Sunset Boulevard. And you think the ceiling could legitimately explode, or the theater will launch into space powered by an explosion of pure gay joy.
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In September he revealed that he had never considered taking on the iconic role before speaking to Andrew Lloyd Webber.
I said, “Are you crazy? Are you crazy? “I didn't understand it because I only had Glenn Close and Gloria Swanson in mind in the old movie,” Scherzinger said.
Covered in fake blood, he emerged to pose for photographs with composer Andrew Lloyd Webber.
While a standing ovation is not necessarily unusual on Broadway, The Daily Beast emphasized that this standing ovation was very different.
'This is not your typical Broadway ovation: polite and helpful. It's not even a standing ovation, grateful and joyful: heartfelt and emotional. This is something else. The shouts and applause continue, a wave of loud applause, with no one in a hurry to stop or leave,” the article says.
'This is not your typical Broadway ovation: polite and helpful. It's not even a standing ovation, grateful and joyful: heartfelt and emotional. This is something else. The shouts and applause continue, a loud wave of applause, without anyone stopping or leaving in a hurry,' the article reads.
In September he revealed that he had never considered taking on the iconic role before speaking to Andrew Lloyd Webber.
He told me: 'Don't watch the movie, don't listen to anyone else, just read the lyrics and listen to the music.' When I did, I fell in love with Norma,' he said.
'I didn't realize that this was the role I had been waiting to play my whole life. “We are doing a completely different, new interpretation,” he said.
“There are a lot of parallels between Sunset Boulevard and what you have to do to make it in Hollywood,” Scherzinger added.
'Even if you have so many talents, you may still be overlooked due to stereotypes and age. It's a tragedy. “It has a lot of ammunition and a lot of fuel,” he said.
