Director Jamie Lloyd’s electric reinvisioning also stars Tom Francis, Grace Hodgett Young, and David Thaxton.
“I’m big.
It’s the pictures that got small.”
Nicole Scherzinger (with Tom Francis) is ready for her close-up in Jamie Lloyd’s 2024 Broadway revival of ‘Sunset Boulevard’.Marc Brenner
have more years and complexity under their belt, and that those women can be astonishing.
Can she stillbreak our hearts with just one look?
The answer is a resounding yes.
Nicole Scherzinger and Hannah Yun Chamberlain in Jamie Lloyd’s 2024 Broadway revival of ‘Sunset Boulevard’.Marc Brenner
Scherzinger’s stunning vocals and lithe dancing are awe- and (in all recent occasions) standing ovation-inducing.
With the help of lighting designer Jack Knowles' brilliant spotlights, she literally glows.
The problem is that she’s cast herself in the part of a 16-year-old seductress.
Tom Francis and the ensemble of director Jamie Lloyd’s 2024 revival of ‘Sunset Boulevard’.Marc Brenner
Her own dreams are limited by the misogyny she’s internalized growing up in Hollywood.
Lloyd makes space for moments of silly, joyful chemistry between the pair.
The British director’s production is remarkably fresh for a1990s musicalbased on a ’50s movie.
Grace Hodgett Young in Jamie Lloyd’s 2024 Broadway revival of ‘Sunset Boulevard’.Marc Brenner
The stage is sparse; props and set pieces replaced with live projections from a steady cam.
(Norma Desmond does, in fact, get her close-up.)
What I will say is, I was tickled by a poster of thePussycat Dollsin his dressing room.
Tom Francis and Nicole Scherzinger in director Jamie Lloyd’s 2024 Broadway revival of ‘Sunset Boulevard’.Marc Brenner
Yet Lloyd’s staging never lets you forget the unglamorous and often exploitative way that art gets made.
Their hopes to create something beautiful and meaningful means their labor is undervalued in the marketplace at best.
Nicole Scherzinger in director Jamie Lloyd’s 2024 Broadway revival of ‘Sunset Boulevard’.Marc Brenner
