Pussycat Dolls singer Nicole Scherzinger makes her luminous Broadway debut in an uneven rework of Andrew Lloyd Webber musical "Sunset Boulevard."

For despite many fascinating interventions by the director Jamie Lloyd and his technical team, and the fact that it is based on one of the greatest of movies, the musical remains too silly for words. In that sense, and others, Norma would have loved it.

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.

The director of the new revival of Andrew Lloyd Webber's "Sunset Blvd." takes the final line from Billy Wilder's noir classic - "I'm ready for my close-up!" - and repeats it ad nauseam. The line is spoken only once on stage,

Director Jamie Lloyd’s new Broadway production of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Sunset Blvd. starring Nicole Scherzinger as ‘Norma Desmond.’ Sunset Blvd is currently running at Broadway's St. James Theatre. New photos of the production have been released and the show's cast was ready for their close-up.

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,

Wreathed in swirling stage smoke, edging towards the audience in a black slip, arms outstretched as if wanting, defying, daring, threatening and inviting us all at once, Nicole Scherzinger as Norma Desmond isn’t kidding.