When Andrew Lloyd Webber's stage adaptation of the 1950 Billy Wilder film Sunset Boulevard premiered in London in 1993 and on Broadway the following year, it was arguably the last gasp of the ‘80s megamusical aesthetic - at least until shows like The Lion King and Wicked came along to tweak the formula.

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,