Nicole Scherzinger is gunning for Broadway gold. The former girl group member, 46, is currently starring as the iconic Norma Desmond in the Jamie Lloyd-directed revival of Sunset Boulevard, which requires Scherzinger to belt her heart out and display intense emotions of the disillusioned silent film star eight times a week.

For despite many fascinating interventions by the director Jamie Lloyd and his technical team, and the fact that it is based on one of the greatest of movies, the musical remains too silly for words. In that sense, and others, Norma would have loved it.

It’s the pictures that got small.” Perhaps the pictures have always been too small, if they have no place for a woman like Nicole Scherzinger’s radiant Norma Desmond. In the Broadway revival of Sunset Boulevard,