Nicole Scherzinger mesmerizes—and raises the roof—in an electric, fabulous revival of Andrew Lloyd Webber‘s “Sunset Blvd.” on Broadway, directed by Jamie Lloyd.

When Nicole Scherzinger entered her dressing room at the St. James Theatre on Sunday afternoon, accompanied by an entourage befitting a Pussycat Doll-turned Broadway diva, a bouquet of roses awaited her.

All that madness in Gloria Swanson’s eyes at the end of Billy Wilder’s 1950 masterpiece Sunset Boulevard is amplified to breathtaking lengths in Jamie Lloyd‘s commanding and gorgeous renovation of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s 1993 musical Sunset Blvd.

There’s no more gilded cage for Norma in director Jamie Lloyd’s red-hot, straight-from-London revival of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s noir 1993 musical.

Nicole Scherzinger’s radiance as Norma Desmond in “Sunset Blvd.” is difficult to overstate. She sings “As If We Never Said Goodbye,” an aching one-sided duet with fame, with such delicacy and gut-slugging power that even Barbra Streisand,

Nicole Scherzinger did not go to her Sunset Blvd. predecessors Patti LuPone or Glenn Close before taking on the role of Norma in the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical. “I think I'd be too nervous to speak to Patti LuPone and Glenn Close.