This is a very scary method.
Nicole Scherzinger stunned the audience on West 44th Street Saturday night when she emerged from the St. James Theater to sign autographs — barefoot, wearing a black gown and covered in fake blood.
No, the former Pussycat Doll wasn’t involved in a fight in Shubert Alley — she’s the star of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Broadway musical “Sunset Boulevard,” which began previews last weekend.
Immediately after the curtain fell, the actress walked out of the theater in her dress.
And it made a splash straight out of a Stephen King novel.
In the show, based on the 1950 Billy Wilder film, Scherzinger, 46, plays Norma Desmond, a faded and forgotten Hollywood movie star whose obsessive dream of returning to the silver screen ends disastrously.
“Mr. Demilie, I’m ready for my close-up!” The role was famously played by Gloria Swanson in film and by Glenn Close on Broadway.
However, before the massacre, Norma performed beautifully renditions of Lloyd Webber’s beloved songs, such as “As If We Never Said Goodbye” and “With One Look”.
Director Jamie Lloyd’s revival, which also stars Tom Francis, cleverly utilizes live video and a sexy, modernist look that couldn’t be more different from the roles Close played in 1994 and 2017.
The Post gives the musical its Oliver Award-winning London production four stars fell for the last time and called Scherzinger’s performance “breathtaking”.
The review said, “Whatever Lloyd has wisely retained in his startling new revival of London, starring Nicole Scherzinger as restless recluse Norma Desmond, are the strong bones of a timeless American tragedy. “
The sight of the bloodied woman in Midtown certainly left people breathless.
A source heard a passerby ask Scherzinger if she was OK.
“She responded, ‘You should have seen another guy,'” he said.
One sarcastically added: “Broadway has not seen an actor looking so dashing since ‘Spider-Man’ closed.”
