This week we look at shows nominated for 2025 Tony Awards.
NEW YORK — “Sunset Blvd.” isn’t just a revival. It’s a reimagining, a reawakening, a reworking.
Thanks to director Jamie Lloyd’s cinematic eye, this is like the 1950s film that inspired Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical. Scenes are projected on a huge screen that dips, tilts and slides while actors stare into cameras and create the stage equivalent of editing. When Tom Francis, as the unsuspecting writer Joe Gillis, escapes the theater and walks outside, “Sunset Blvd.” becomes its own IMAX experience — a marvel that even Tom Cruise couldn’t duplicate.
Surprisingly, Nicole Scherzinger may be too young to play aging silent screen actress Norma Desmond, but she plots the women’s mental decline quite nicely. When she gets those big thea