Andrew Lloyd Webber reflects on the long journey of bringing Nicole Scherzinger to Broadway. Initially impressed by her performance of 'Don't Cry for Me Argentina' on ITV in 2013, he had hopes of casting her in a theater role. After a decade of her commitments to TV shows, director Jamie Lloyd ultimately cast her as Norma Desmond in 'Sunset Boulevard.' The production earned critical acclaim, receiving seven Tony Award nominations, highlighting Scherzinger's captivating performance and the show’s deeper, darker reimagining.
A year later, the former Pussycat Doll was belting out 'Memory' at the London Palladium as Grizabella in 'Cats.' But her Broadway contract didn't work out.
Nine lives, er, years went by, and then the outre director Jamie Lloyd approached the composer with a strange idea - Scherzinger should play Norma Desmond.
Lloyd Webber said, 'If you get her to the altar, I'm going to be the happiest person in history.' And he did.
'It is darker and, I think, it's also deeper,' Lloyd Webber said of his totally different 1994 musical.
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