Bloody Nicole Scherzinger greets ‘Sundown Boulevard’ followers in nightgown: images

It’s the Nice Fright Manner.

Nicole Scherzinger shocked onlookers on W. forty fourth Road Saturday night time when she emerged from the St. James Theatre to signal autographs — barefoot, carrying a black robe and lined in faux blood.

No, the previous Pussycat Doll didn’t get right into a fist battle in Shubert Alley — she’s the star of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Broadway musical “Sundown Boulevard,” which began previews final weekend. 

The actress raced out of the theater instantly after the curtain fell, nonetheless in her costume.

And he or she made a splash straight out of a Stephen King novel. 

Within the present, primarily based on the 1950 Billy Wilder film, Scherzinger, 46, performs Norma Desmond, a pale and forgotten Hollywood film star whose obsessive dream of returning to the silver display ends gruesomely.

The “Mr. DeMille, I’m prepared for my closeup!” position was famously performed by Gloria Swanson within the movie and Glenn Shut on Broadway.

Earlier than the carnage, although, Norma superbly belts out beloved Lloyd Webber ballads, equivalent to “As If We By no means Stated Goodbye” and “With One Look.”

Director Jamie Lloyd’s revival, which additionally stars Tom Francis, cleverly employs reside video and a horny, modernist look that couldn’t be extra totally different from when Shut performed the half in 1994 and 2017.

The Submit gave the musical’s Oliver Award-winning London manufacturing 4 stars final fall and known as Scherzinger’s efficiency “breathtaking.” 

“What Lloyd has properly left intact in his jolting new London revival, starring Nicole Scherzinger as that stressed recluse Norma Desmond, are the sturdy bones of a timeless American tragedy,” the evaluation learn.

The sight of a blood-soaked girl in Midtown actually took individuals’s breath away.

A supply overheard a passerby ask Scherzinger if she was OK.

“She responded, ‘You must’ve seen the opposite man,’” they stated.

Added a wag: “Broadway hasn’t seen an actor wanting this banged-up since ‘Spider-Man’ closed.”