It’s the pictures that got small.” Perhaps the pictures have always been too small, if they have no place for a woman like Nicole Scherzinger’s radiant Norma Desmond. In the Broadway revival of Sunset Boulevard,

As she sings the final verse of "As If We Never Said Goodbye," one of two showstopping numbers that bolster the musical "Sunset Boulevard," Nicole Scherzinger turns her face skyward. Her architectural cheekbones reflect the glare of the spotlight,

Nicole Scherzinger is ready for her close-up. In the early aughts, the pop chanteuse scored global fame (and seven Top 20 hits) as the de facto leader of the Pussycat Dolls, which she then tried to springboard into a solo career.