New York Audiences Are Noisy — and Nicole Scherzinger Wouldn’t Have It Any Other Way: Hear the Stars Dish at Variety’s Business of Broadway

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Gordon Cox Theater Editor Back during Nicole Scherzinger‘s run in the West End revival of “Sunset Boulevard”—the show that won her an Olivier Award and has now brought her to Broadway to reprise her performance—she never had a problem recognizing the Gothamites in the crowd. “I could always tell when the New Yorkers came across the pond to the U.K.

because they were so loud!” she said at Variety’s Business of Broadway breakfast earlier this month. Listen to this week’s “Stagecraft” podcast below: But rather than distract her, those vocal New Yorkers energized her. “I love it when they’re more vocal.

I’m like, ‘Yeah! I’m gonna give you what you came for!'” (New Yorkers were true to form during the first Broadway preview of “Sunset,” when Scherzinger received a whopping four standing ovations, three of them mid-show.) Scherzinger’s conversation with director Jamie Lloyd is one of the Business of Broadway panel discussions that are now available on the latest episode of “Stagecraft,” Variety’s theater podcast.

In their talk, Lloyd and Scherzinger shared some of the backstage secrets to the buzzy “Sunset,” including a description of a bravura sequence during the show in which co-star Tom Francis sings the title song while walking around in the Times Square, while the Broadway audience watches via a live broadcast in the St.