Nicole Scherzinger is the greatest star of all. The former Pussycat Dolls singer took home the award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical at the 2025 Tony Awards on Sunday, June 8, beating record-breaking six-time winner Audra McDonald. Scherzinger, 46, stars as the faded silent film star Norma Desmond … Read more
Here comes a tense Tony’s. Last year, many of the major winners were a cinch to predict. This time, well, the bars at Radio City Music Hall will be doing big business. Everybody’s freaking out. Producers have been like pollsters the past two weeks, interrogating the 840 Tony voters about who they’ve chosen. “Maybe Happy … Read more
The weather was rainy in New York last week. And on Broadway, when it rained, it poured. There was a torrent of activity in the race to the Tonys on June 8 — a lot of campaigning, some award shake-ups and the Broadway League’s Spring Road Conference. That’s when hundreds of out-of-town presenters, known as … Read more
Andrew Lloyd Webber never thought he’d get Nicole Scherzinger to Broadway. “I always remember when she did ‘Don’t Cry for Me Argentina’ on a TV show some years ago,” Lloyd Webber told me during an hour-long sit-down. After her performance on that 2013 ITV special, “Cats” director Trevor Nunn excitedly rang him up and said, … Read more
Nicole Scherzinger has broken her silence following Liam Payne’s tragic death at the age of 31. On Friday, the 46-year-old shared an emotional Instagram tribute to Payne. Alongside Simon Cowell, Scherzinger is credited for forming the late singer’s boy band One Direction, which included Zayn Malik, Harry Styles, Niall Horan and Louis Tomlinson, in the 2010 “The X … Read more
Nicole Scherzinger was reportedly in touch with Liam Payne on Oct. 16, the same day he fatally plunged to his death. According to Andrew Lloyd Webber, who composed the music for her Broadway musical “Sunset Blvd.,” the Pussycat Dolls alum, 46, was texting the One Direction singer, 31, while he was in Argentina before his sudden … Read more
Liam Payne filmed a show for Netflix months before his tragic death at age 31. The former One Direction member served as a judge and mentor on “Building the Band,” a new talent competition series. The show was greenlit by Netflix in May and produced by UK’s Remarkable Entertainment. Filming wrapped in August, according to … Read more
Yes, it’s a revival of a 31-year-old musical that’s based on a 74-year-old black-and-white movie. And both are as fuzzily remembered by young audiences as the main character, Norma Desmond, is by cruel Hollywood. Theater review SUNSET BOULEVARD 2 hours and 35 minutes with one intermission. At the St. James Theatre, 246 West 44th Street. … Read more
It’s the Great Fright Way. Nicole Scherzinger shocked onlookers on West 44th Street Saturday night when she emerged from the St. James Theatre to sign autographs — barefoot, wearing a black gown and covered in fake blood. No, the former Pussycat Doll didn’t get into a fist fight in Shubert Alley — she’s the star … Read more
Jamie Lloyd’s radically reimagined revival of “Sunset Boulevard,” in which Nicole Scherzinger plays the faded film star Norma Desmond, will come to Broadway this fall after a rapturously received run in London. Earlier this month, the revival was nominated for 11 Olivier Awards, including best musical revival, best actress in a musical for Scherzinger and … Read more
Get ready, Mr. DeMille. The London revival of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical “Sunset Boulevard,” starring Nicole Scherzinger, will arrive on Broadway later this year, a spokesman for the production said on Thursday. The sensational Scherzinger of the Pussycat Dolls will be back, alongside her talented West End co-stars: Tom Francis as Joe Gillis, Grace Hodgett-Young … Read more
That giant and crumbling Hollywood mansion on Sunset, home to the greatest star of all, has undergone a major renovation. Director Jamie Lloyd has ripped out the interior walls and chucked the lavish adornments. He’s emptied the closets of Gloria Swanson’s favorite outfits and installed high-tech cameras. The house is almost unrecognizable. Theater review 2 … Read more