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Nicole Scherzinger is a Broadway leading lady—and now, officially, a Tony winner. At the 78th Tony Awards, she took home the award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical for her hauntingly magnetic turn as Norma Desmond in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Sunset Boulevard, an adaptation of the 1950 film directed by Billy Wilder, where the role was originally played by Golden Globe winner Gloria Swanson.
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It’s a performance that’s been described as “courageous, audacious, mesmerizing, elegantly beautiful, and ultimately heartbreaking” by none other than Patti LuPone, and one that catapulted the former Pussycat Doll into stage legend status.
From pop stardom to Broadway’s biggest night, Scherzinger arrived in full theatrical scale, complete with tears, thunderous applause, and a speech that hit all the right notes: “Thank you,” she said through tears, “for making this little Hawaiian Ukrainian Filipino girl’s dream come true.”
Playing Norma Desmond—a fading screen siren chasing a comeback—Scherzinger found uncanny resonance. “I really feel,” she said in an interview, “to quote one of my lines in Sunset, that ‘I have come home at last.’”
If the Tony is any indication, she came home, hit her mark, and proved she was more than ready for her close-up.
Sunset Blvd. announced a final extension on Broadway with performances through July 20.
Photos: SUNSET BLVD ON BROADWAY and RODARTE (via Instagram)
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