Nicole Scherzinger gets 6-minute standing ovation in 'Sunset Blvd.' Broadway debut
Nicole Scherzinger, former pop star of the Pussycat Dolls and "The X Factor" judge, received a six-minute standing ovation for her role as Norma Desmond in "Sunset Blvd."
Pop star Nicole Scherzinger, known as the former lead singer of the Pussycat Dolls, appears to be elevating her career on the Broadway stage.
The Filipina and Native Hawaiian performer recently made her Broadway debut as Norma Desmond in a revival of famed composer Andrew Lloyd Webber's "Sunset Blvd." and has reportedly been receiving standing ovations midshow. As Desmond, Scherzinger plays a Hollywood movie star whose career has declined with time, desperately trying to reclaim her fame.
And it's not just audiences who are praising Scherzinger, who originated the role with equal praise last year in London's West End and won a Laurence Olivier award for best actress in a musical.
People magazine lauded her performance as “so commanding, so seductive and so magnificent,” adding that she received multiple standing ovations throughout the show. The longest, at six minutes, came just after Scherzinger opened the musical.
In a review by the New York Post, critic Johnny Oleksinski wrote: “She’s otherworldly … And when the former Pussycat Doll belts Lloyd Webber’s stirring ballads, ‘With One Look’ and 'As If We Never Said Goodbye,' as haze dreamily swirls behind her, the audience all but levitates.”
Rating: 5