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Nicole Scherzinger Never Stopped Dreaming
The former Pussycat Doll stages a comeback with Sunset Blvd. on Broadway.
You probably remember the bravado of “Don’t Cha,” which suggests the listener wishes “their girlfriend was hot like me,” or the aural striptease of “Buttons.” We are, at this moment, speeding down the FDR Drive in a black car on her way to a gig: a set under the Brooklyn Bridge at a Wimbledon watch party. When she pictured the film Sunset Boulevard, all she could think of was a scene in which Swanson’s hand rises in front of a projector in a menacing, witchlike claw before her prey: an aspiring screenwriter named Joe Gillis who stumbles into Norma’s mansion and ends up in a mutually parasitic relationship with her. Her mother discovered a casting notice for a WB reality-competition TV series called Popstars, a precursor of shows like American Idol, which promised to audition women around the country and assemble them into the next big girl group.
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