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‘Sunset Blvd.’ Review: Nicole Scherzinger Steals Broadway With One Look
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. With a career-expanding performance that redefines the one-time Dancing With The Stars competitor Nicole Scherzinger as thoroughly as […]
; to avoid confusion, I’ll refer to the stage show, past and present iterations, with the abbreviation – has always been something of an also-ran in the Lloyd Webber oeuvre, known mostly for two, three, maybe four of its best songs, a big ol’ staircase and the stinging behind-the-scenes feud between the composer and his original star Patti LuPone way back in the day. The dichotomy was clearly evident in the original stagings of Sunset Blvd., with elaborate sets that featured, for example, a very very grand staircase down which a turbaned Patti LuPone or Betty Buckley or Glenn Close or Elaine Paige would sweep, an over-the-topness that, while certainly not without appeal, added another layer of camp to a musical that was already prone to it. And here, it’s not even the most thrilling moment of the show: That comes earlier, when Scherzinger, her straight hair hanging long, her only costume the flimsy black slip she’ll wear through the entire production, stands near the edge of the stage to belt out the musical’s best song – “With One Look” – a vocal tour de force that comes well before intermission and, at the reviewed performance, had a roaring audience on its feet.
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