Watch Nicole Scherzinger Sing into a Bullhorn After a Sunset Blvd. Performance Gets Canceled for Technical Difficulties

Nicole Scherzinger captivated audiences “With One Look.”

After a Broadway performance of Sunset Blvd. was abruptly cancelled due to technical difficulties, Scherzinger, 46, still sang for the audience through a bullhorn that stage management had on hand. The matinee was scheduled for the afternoon of Wednesday, April 23.

In a video, the singer and actress is seen saying, “I don’t know how this is going to sound, but at least it’s from the heart. And you know what? It’s a once in lifetime kind of performance.”

Scherzinger was met with applause from the audience.

“Despite technical difficulties at today’s matinee, Nicole Scherzinger found a way to keep the show going for all you beautiful people out there in the dark,” the Sunset Blvd. team wrote on X alongside the video.

The revival of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s beloved 1993 musical hit the stage in September 2024. Scherzinger stars as faded Hollywood silent film starlet Norma Desmond, who hires young screenwriter Joe Gillis (Tom Francis) to assist her in her comeback. Numerous Broadway icons, notably Patti Lupone, Glenn Close and Rita Moreno have stepped into the role of Norma over the years. The musical is based on the 1950 classic film Sunset Boulevard.

“I’ve never been more strong — physically, mentally, emotionally. I’m in my prime. There is no better time for me to create work that is meaningful in this world,” Scherzinger said in a video series produced by the show in September 2024.

She added, “That’s the tragedy: is that you’re in the best place in your life. You’re so fully, have so much to give, and people have discarded you, and dismissed you and said ‘Your time’s up.'”

Lupone, who played Norma Desmond in London’s West End production of the musical in 1993, recently praised Scherzinger’s performance and the production as a whole in Variety‘s Actors on Actors series in an interview with George Clooney, who currently stars in the Broadway production of Good Night, and Good Luck.

“I was thrilled to death,” said Lupone. “I thought the whole cast was incredible, especially Nicole and Tom Francis. She could have been nervous, who knows, but she commands the stage. I wished I had been in that kind of production.”

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The performance of Sunset Blvd. scheduled for the evening of April 23 went on as planned, per the show’s official X account.