Nicole Scherzinger stars in a sexy, seismic ‘Sunset Boulevard’ in London
nypost.combigger.Of course, Lloyd, who directed “A Doll’s House” on Broadway last season with Jessica Chastain, isn’t this wildly imaginative production’s only risky choice.Scherzinger, from the Pussycat Dolls, is about as far away from Norma type-casting as you can possibly get.
She has little in common with the Martian-esque Swanson or Glenn Close and never bothers with an eccentric turban.But her breathtaking, feral Norma is, nonetheless, a grand creature of showbiz who’s been shunned by Hollywood’s cruelly short attention span by just 40 years old.
Not content to give in to the ticking clock, Scherzinger wears a sexy black dress (costumes and sets by Soutra Gilmour) as Norma desperately relives her best years when she was a mega-famous silent-film actress in her teens and twenties.
Driving home her obsession with the past, Lloyd has a Young Norma (Hannah Yun Chamberlain) dance around the stage — tantalizing and tormenting her future self.
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